Speed ​​Skating - Cabinet meeting in Heerenveen
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At full speed & agrave; on & nbsp; Thialf. The legendary Dutch ice & nbsp; & nbsp Heerenveen; right back great protagonist in & nbsp; World Cup. The & nbsp; & nbsp sixth stage, the circuit finds CITY capital of & nbsp; long track & nbsp; in the Netherlands. In fact, after less than two months & ndash; 12 to 14 December last the & nbsp; & nbsp speed skating; the world had already & agrave; peeped on the same oval & ndash; the blades of the skaters return to tread the same track.
Friday 6 February 2015 8 minutes reading time
Un''unica difference, & ograve ;. Then, the three days of Heerenveen riguard & ograve; the full program & ndash; Team Pursuit and Mass Start including - of races. From tomorrow to Sunday 8, however, will feature the only specialists in sprint distances: 500 and 1000 meters. Will be played two series for both distances, divided in two days of competition. The same format of the World Cup Sprint. Championships which will be held just 28-1 & deg; next March, in Astana in Kazakhstan.
In fact, in view of the event rainbow in the Asian country, the sixth & ndash; and last before the Finals & ndash; stage Cup 2014-15 servir & agrave; to define the range of all the skilled and qualified to Astana 2015. In total, 32 athletes will be expected to play for the championship. 13 men & ndash; including the & rsquo; blue Mirko Giacomo Nenzi & ndash; and many women have already & agrave; secured the passes for the festival Kazakh based on placings obtained in 2014 in Nagano (Japan). This leaves another 19 seats to be allocated for both sexes.
So, the weekend of the sprinter servir & agrave; not only to define & ndash; probably in an important way & ndash; Cup rankings for 500 and 1000 meters, but also to allow the & rsquo; important worldwide access.
For Heerenveen are five Blues in the race followed by the staff of the National. Under the orders of coach Stefano Donagrandi, in Holland, there are three men - David Bosa (Golden Flame), Mirko Giacomo Nenzi (yellow flame) and Luca Zanghellini (VG Pergine) and two women - Yvonne Daldossi (Forestry) and Linda Bortolotti ( Skaters Circle Pin & eacute; Pulinet) -. For Bortolotti (class 1995) will treat & agrave; the first performance in the Senior Cup and to open & agrave; the manifestation in the 500 meters in the morning. The young pinetana & egrave; fresh from a good season culminated with the second place in the Italian Championships Sprint, won by Yvonne Daldossi. Besides Nenzi, eleventh at the World Sprint 2014 and gi & agrave; safe place, try to join the two Trentino also on the podium to Absolute d & rsquo; early January: in & rsquo; order, Bosa and Zanghellini.
Challenge awaited in key World & egrave; that between the world record holder over 500 meters, the Korean Lee Sang-Hwa and American Heather Richardson, able to beat the & rsquo; just in Asian & rsquo; last direct comparison on Thialf. Attention to outsiders as the Dutch Margot Boer and Floor van den Brandt, all & rsquo; American Brittany Bowe and Japanese Nao Kodaira.
The challenge in the 1000 looks really balanced. On lot of favorite c & rsquo; & egrave; in the first row the current leader of specialty & agrave ;, the Chinese Li Quishi. Then, you ricomporr & agrave; finally the Dutch tandem & ndash; fighting for the Grand World Cup & ndash; Ireen Wü; st and Marrit Leenstra. Besides them, l & rsquo; fierce American couple Richardson-Bowe.
Male, back on track the absolute leader of the Cup, at least until the end of 2014. This is the Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov, gi & agrave; winning three times this season on the Dutch track. The first three rankings Seasonal & ndash; Grand World Cup, 500 meters and 1000 & ndash; as well as & eacute; winner of nine races in the season, & egrave; expected to litmus test. Riuscir & agrave; to hold a condition that & rsquo; saw compete unrivaled in November and December? Find a rival Kulizhnikov in 500 seems objectively difficult. But the candidates are not lacking: the oranje Jan Smeekens and Michel Mulder, the Polish Artur Wa & # 347 ;, to Korean Mo Tae-Bum and Canadian Laurent Dubreuil, world record holder in the season on the distance. Mirko Giacomo Nenzi garegger & agrave; in the second group of about, at least in the first round of tomorrow. But sar & agrave; an interesting test for the Venetian, ready to return to Division A and appeared in good shape in the latest releases.
Kulizhnikov sar & agrave; l & rsquo; man to beat & ndash; on paper at least & ndash; also on the 1000 meters. They will try to counter the dominance of Russian & ndash; perhaps driven by the public hot Thialf - the three Dutch Kjeld Nuis, Hein Otterspeer and the Olympic champion Stefan Groothuis distance.
This program matches of the first day, Saturday, February 7th. Incidentally, there are Italians engaged.
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11:15 am First series 500m Women Division B (Bortolotti and Daldossi) Hours 24:05 First series 500m men Division B (Bosa, Nenzi and Zanghellini) Hours 13:21 Second series 1000m Women Division B (Bortolotti and Daldossi) Hours 13: 41 Second series 1000m men Division B (Bosa, Nenzi and Zanghellini) 15:30 First series 500m Women Division A Hours 15:53 ​​First Series 500m Men Division A Hours 16:33 Second series 1000m Women Division A Hours 17:19 Second series 1000m Men Division A
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