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Short track is back on track for the & rsquo; s latest effort & rsquo; year 2014. And it does concluding its annual appointments & ndash; in 2015 it will go & agrave; forward - with the trip to South Korea. On the track of the capital Seoul, andr & agrave; staged from tomorrow, December 19 to Sunday 21, the fourth of the six stages of the World Cup from 2014 to 2015.
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The & nbsp; protagonists are virtually the same that animated the three days of races & ndash; December 12 to 14 - in China, in Shanghai, held during the & rsquo; last weekend. But there & rsquo; & egrave; a great novelty & agrave; in view of the competition which will be played on the ice Modkong Ice Rink Korean. The races in which skaters will compete for podiums, medals and valuable points for the conquest of the securities, will always be five. 500, 1000, 1500 meters individual and relay (3000 for women and 5000 for men). But it will not come to Seoul & agrave; ride a double distance, as is traditional in Olympic years & ndash; including current season - but will come & agrave; officially (for the first time ever in cup) addition to those mentioned, the distance of 3000 meters. Sar & agrave; l & rsquo; only time we will see specialists compete on 3 km. In a distance which traditionally takes place at the conclusion of the World Championships and has pitted top eight joints all & rsquo; last act.
Therefore, the forces on the ice are the same as seen in China. And there will be no more & ugrave; strongest athletes of the Russian national men (Victor An, Semion Elistratov and Vladimir Grigorev all), while women will orphan the blue star Arianna Fontana & ndash; always in the US to train, because the stop scheduled races of the World Cup until 2015 & ndash; and the Canadian Val & eacute; rie Maltais.
The ideas to see short track of the highest level, for & ograve ;, not fail at all. In 1000 women are expected to fight hard in the house between the Korean Shim Suk-hee and Kim Alang against Chinese Fan Kexin and Han Yutong. And the outsider Marianne St-Gelais and Elise Christie ready to do battle. The Italian race will Federica Tombolato, Arianna and Elena Valcepina Viviani.
On the same distance to the male & egrave; awaited the one who had not won a race for too long and Shanghai & egrave; returned to rejoice. Charles Hamelin. His rival seems to be the number one Korean Seo Yi-Ra. Three Italians at the start of the Preliminaries: David Viscardi, Massimo and Andrea Gurini Cassinelli.
Tomorrow debuts then 3000 meters in the World Cup format. Among women & ndash; finals for medals scheduled for Saturday & ndash; the pi & ugrave; credited for the success could be Minjeon Choi and Lee Eun-Byul (Korea). The blue that will compete in the individual competition pi & ugrave; Long will Lucia Peretti and Ylenia Tota. Among men, however, - A and B finals scheduled for Sunday & ndash; headlights pointed star on home Sin Da Woon. We expect possible surprises from the Italian way: Tommaso Dotti, Yuri Confortola and Massimo Gurini. Tomorrow at least one of them could land & ndash; pass the first four in each of four batteries - now the semifinals Sunday.
The women's 500 meters will see the return on the distance of the Cup leader Fan Kexin & ndash; in Shanghai, the Chinese ran only the first set, winning it & ndash; ready to try the challenge with compatriot Lin Yue. The Italian at the start of the Preliminaries are Federica Tombolato, Elena Viviani and Arianna Valcepina. Especially the Viviani aims to improve the tenth place finish in China.
In the men, all against Dmitry Migunov. A challenge, among others, will be there & agrave; Also the Canadian Hamelin. Andrea Cassinelli, Nicola and David Rodigari Viscardi is the triptych blue at the start.
The leaders of the charts Cup in 1500 meters & ndash; Shim Suk-Hee between women and Sin Da Woon male & ndash; will regularly at the start. Two girls in blue who will try to go on the pi & ugrave; possible in the board: Lucia Peretti and Ylenia Tota. Yuri Confortola, Tommaso Dotti and Nicola Rodigari are men chosen by ct blue Kenan Gouadec for the mile on the ice of Korea.
Speech important and serious for the Italian relay. The blue & ndash; engaged directly by the semi-finals because of just eight teams registered & ndash; if they see against Hungary, China and Japan: the next round & egrave; What feasible. The men, however, have to go back to number eight in the seasonal rankings (currently in ninth place) to get the qualification for the World Cup. In the battery of tomorrow will challenge the hosts Korean and Kazakhstan. The shift in the semifinals & egrave; accessible.
Click here to learn about the program (reserved for batteries) tomorrow, Friday & Igrave; December 19.
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