Short Track - Cabinet meeting in Seoul
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Are unstoppable in the rest of the world, even more & ugrave; on home ice. Albeit with some exceptions. Even the & nbsp; third and final day & nbsp; & nbsp; World Cup & nbsp; in the fourth round of this season of & nbsp; Seoul & nbsp; (Korea), closes with the usual cascade of podiums seized by the hosts and in the corresponding & ndash; as to victories in the & nbsp; short track & nbsp; & ndash; Chinese. Still & nbsp; & nbsp six finals, played on the ice of the & nbsp; & nbsp Mokdong Ice Rink; and yet many joys for the Asian continent, with a & rsquo; except orange.
Sunday 21 December 2014 19 minutes reading time
Korea this time won three wins on the individual distances of the day. The 1500 women see continue the ride Young Choi Minjeong and 500 male and 3000 & ndash; the latter with tris Korean - reward respectively Seo Yi Ra & nbsp; (in action in the cover photo) and Lee Jung-Su. The speed & agrave; female sees prevail & rsquo; impregnable Chinese Fan Kexin. The world record holder over the distance doubles golds in the final relay race, where China insult the Korean. While in the team competition of the men comes the surprise: l & rsquo; Holland puts all in a row. And Korea comes amazingly from the podium.
L & rsquo; Italy's c.t. Kenan Gouadec closes the long trip to Asia with a good ninth place & ndash; with some small regret a lack of access to the final A in the 3000 meters & ndash; Yuri Confortola. In the same distance & egrave; was also positive l & rsquo; debut Tommaso Dotti. While somewhat less than expected & egrave; came from the women, third in Final B relay. Best Blue & ldquo; individual & rdquo; Lucia Peretti, sixteenth in 1500.
Starting from the individual races, c & rsquo; & egrave; saying that Fan Kexin & egrave; a certainty. Ed & egrave; unstoppable. The phenomenal 21 year old Chinese bicampionessa world on the 500 meters women, dominates the & rsquo; last race for medals and wins in extreme fluency in 43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 747. A nothing can competitors Jeon Ji-Soo and Elise Christie, quest & rsquo; last again on the podium after the bronze in the 1000 yesterday. In the overall standings away, Fan extends again & ndash; has a dowry of four wins out of four races & ndash; on Korean Jeon and Lin Yue of China and the Canadian St-Gelais, both out in the semifinals.
The race of the three Italian present on the distance fast ends the repechage. The best & egrave; Elena Viviani, eliminated in the semifinals of recovery at the hands of Lithuanian Serekaite, which closes in front of her (44 & rsquo; & rsquo; 711 the trial of & rsquo; blue) for just under two-tenths. The 22 year old shut Financial & agrave; in eighteenth place in the standings. Arianna Valcepina and Federica Tombolato & ndash; 24th and 25th - were out in the previous round, ie the quarter.
All, or nearly so, the best in the final of the men's race: with Wu Dajing, Seo Yi Ra, Charles Hamelin and one Sjinkie Knegt in great growth over the weekend, the show and the speed & agrave; were guaranteed. And that & egrave; Finale was the A & ldquo; d & rsquo; & eacute; lite & rdquo; of 500 meters. Ed & egrave; the case to say that the way they qualified the best of the moment. With a & rsquo; one exception: the Russian Cup leader on this distance, Dmitry Migunov, released from contention to the quarterfinals & ndash; certainly not & ldquo; comfortable & rdquo; by value of opponents - Wu and Hamelin all. The race sees Wu Dajing deal with a terrible insult. The strong Chinese, after leading from the start since, undergoes the penultimate lap to overtake the Korean Seo, that s & rsquo; involer & agrave; then to victory. Then, in the subsequent round gave the location & Outdoors; Dutch Knegt & Outdoors; internal and finally is also overtaken by Hamelin & Outdoors; outside. Ed & egrave; resoundingly off the podium. In the final standings, the first blue & egrave; Nicola Rodigari & ndash; 26th - eliminated in the quarterfinals repechage morning Korean. David Viscardi & ndash; who today turned 24 - & egrave; 31st, while Andrea Cassinelli 44th. The latter have failed to pass the first round of recoveries.
A female in the second final of the day, 1500 women, the Chinese and the Canadian Boutin & ldquo; & rdquo joke; and control among themselves for half & agrave; race. Then we think the usual Korean-phenomenon & nbsp; Choi Minjeong & ndash; indented between the & rsquo; another by repechage - to excite the audience of his house. It is one of his usual spectacular overtaking spectacular 3 laps to go. 2 wins & rsquo; 31 & rsquo; & rsquo; 246, in front of Han Yutong and all & rsquo; other Korean Noh Hee-Do. Quest & rsquo; last & ndash; 19 years - comes third after a dramatic photo finish with Canada's Kim Boutin (fourth to 9 cents) and cos & Igrave conquest; his first career podium in the Senior Cup.
The path of the Italian had seen go up finally in a semifinal (the first season) l & rsquo; waiting Lucia Peretti. The 24 year old Bormio & egrave; returned first in the main draw as the best second of the two semi-finals repechage and with over four-second gap on rival Gervais. In the next round, for ograve ;, & finished in sixth place, not finding the & rsquo; access to either end, A and B. Lucia tries to struggle in the early laps, looking for a position of privilege to follow the earliest. Then for & ograve; & Egrave; forced to retreat because of the attacks and the brawl that broke out on the third lap. Finishes sixth in 2 & rsquo; 29 & rsquo; & rsquo; 187, a little more & ugrave; two seconds of qualifying in & ldquo; A & rdquo; (Choi and Tao forward) and a second and a half from the & ldquo; B & rdquo; (Where are accessed Harris-Gauthier and Zakharova). L & rsquo; blue closes cos & Igrave; sixteenth in the standings, his best result in the World Cup. Ylenia Tota instead is ousted in the first round of repechage, because & eacute; finished fourth and last in his heat four, won by a certain Choi Minjeong, resoundingly ousted in batteries of Friday & Igrave ;.
The unpublished 3000 meters men say with full force Korea. The National host made his first hat-trick of the season. The great merit goes to the winner Lee Jung-Su that, gi & agrave; after the first pass, creates the hole decisive & ndash; in partnership with compatriot Kwak - in & rsquo; economy of the race. Others see parading Lee and do not respond, cos & Igrave; bicampione the Olympic & ndash; 1000 and 1500 - in Vancouver in 2010 immediately take a lap ahead of the rest of the group. To underline the team play with Kwak, one of the other two teammates present in Final A. Lee shut & agrave; on parade, while others will contend & ldquo; only & rdquo; the rest of the podium. The Koreans will sprout again, to the delight of Mokdong Ice Rink: in & rsquo; order to arrive & rsquo; arrival Kwak Yoon-Gy and Sin Da Woon. Fourth the US Cole Krueger - & nbsp; first the rest of the world - for 90 cents too, off the podium, in the dense sprint for positions from second place onwards.
The 3000 bring more satisfaction to the Italian colors. Perch & eacute; just from the race pi & ugrave; Long inserted for the first time in Cup, comes the ninth Yuri Confortola. The 28 year old registered with the Sporting Group Forest, fight until the & rsquo; last lap in his hard-fought semi-final, but & egrave; forced to give the fourth position in & rsquo; last round. Shut & agrave; with a time of 4 & rsquo; 51 & rsquo; & rsquo; 232, slipped from Canadian William Preudhomme (4 & rsquo; 51 & rsquo; & rsquo; 127), which grabs cos & Igrave; l & rsquo; last place available for the final. The other three had gone to Cournoyer, Suleymenov and Krueger. There & rsquo; Confortola was only involved in two semifinals. In the second he competed also Tommaso Dotti. The Milanese not & egrave; for & ograve; managed to go beyond the seventh place of the battery. Ed & egrave; in credit with bad luck, since & eacute; you & egrave; placed behind the podium future & ndash; in the same order: Lee, Kwak and Sin & ndash; At the end you & egrave; played a & rsquo; now pi & ugrave; later. With the Koreans & egrave; Qualified Chinese Chen Guang (4 & rsquo; 56 & rsquo; & rsquo; 600), but Dotti (4 & rsquo; 59 & rsquo; & rsquo; 519) is & egrave; confirmed among the leaders. For him & egrave; arrived still a good fourteenth place overall in the final standings.
As for the team competitions, c & rsquo; & egrave; to report the defeat of Korea, both female and male. The women's relay team receives a setback & ldquo; return & rdquo; Chinese in their own home, after giving it a week ago in Shanghai. This time, for the Korean ;, & ograve have mocked the penultimate lap from China (Fan, Han Lin and Li), after leading the race to their high speeds. The decisive move comes on the penultimate lap. While in third place is the square Russia. The women's team (Malagich, Strelkova, Prosvirnova Konstantinova), & egrave; truly amazing and constantly growing, especially in the last two stages of Shanghai and Seoul.
In Final B with Canada, the US and Japan c & rsquo; & egrave; Also l & rsquo; Italy (Valcepina, Peretti, Tombolato and Viviani). The Italians are aggressive since the start. From the fourth starting square, the first factional Arianna Valcepina back soon in second place. It starts cos & Igrave; the first phase all & rsquo; tracking Canadian leader for very good part of the 27 laps overall. Then, for over twenty laps, the situation remains stable with the blue that closely controls North American head. But to -3 & nbsp; suffer overtaking the US during a phase change. Not be able to recover on Canada and the US that the quartet relegheranno blue in third place in 4 & rsquo; 21 & rsquo; & rsquo; 069.
The men's race seemed to live throughout the match between Korea and Canada, but & egrave; l & rsquo; Holland to win. A surprising success as seen thus far in the season, despite & nbsp; the quartet oranje both reduce - three quarters - from a 2014 cha gave an Olympic final in Sochi and the 'world gold in Montr & eacute; al. Breeuwsma, Van der Wart, Snellink Knegt and go head-to-five laps from the end, thanks to the intelligent management of the phase change. It will not be pi & ugrave; attacked, despite the desperate attempt Korean & ndash; that porter & agrave; to contact with Canada not sanctioned & nbsp; - before & rsquo; last corner. On the podium behind the surprising oranje, end cos & Igrave; Canada and China. Only the fourth, to the disappointment of the strong home crowd, Korea.
Ends cos & Igrave; the second of two tranches & ldquo; & rdquo continental; ISU World Cup. The stages of Shanghai and Seoul have decreed the overwhelming supremacy of the Asian powers. But the domain & egrave; senz state & rsquo; another facilitated by heavy absences in the European contingent at the start. Of all, l & rsquo; blue Arianna Fontana, always on the podium in two stages & ndash; and four races & ndash; between the US and Canada will return & agrave; from the European leg of February. Besides she also weighed the lack of Val & eacute; rie Maltais, Canadian appeared in excellent form in the first two Cup events. Moreover, among men, l & rsquo; incidence in Asia to have a Russian team orphan of his pi & ugrave; major players has undoubtedly allowed the & ldquo; & rdquo banquet; Asia.
Click here to see all the results of the weekend's World Cup in Seoul. The competition will return & agrave; in February, when the 6 & Outdoors; 8 skaters will return to compete in Germany, in Dresden. First, for the National Italian ;, & ograve sar & agrave; all''opera Championships & nbsp; & nbsp Europeans Dordrecht; (Netherlands), from 23 to 25 January 2015.
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