Speed ​​Skating Cabinet meeting in Salt Lake City
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Everything & egrave; ready to & nbsp; Salt Lake City, where from Friday & Igrave; 20 to Sunday, November 22, the best of the & nbsp; speed skating & nbsp; & agrave descend; on one of the pi & ugrave oval; rapid in the world to give birth to the second stage of & nbsp; World Cup ISU. The US & egrave; a & nbsp; fast track, the ice which represents the top as the CITY Utah rises to over & nbsp; 1,200 meters above sea level, very important factor in skating. & nbsp;
Friday 20 November 2015 10 minutes reading time
So, all together & rsquo; oval in Calgary (trod only a week ago), the American & egrave; senz & rsquo; another among the most & ugrave; rapid and difficult at the same time on the world circuit. And the results at the fastest time will prove senz & rsquo; another in the next & nbsp; three days of races.
They will show races that promise easy and easy record. The ingredients for a show we are all very fast, also because & eacute; the protagonists are not lacking. You can not miss the predictable attacks on primates in the world, since & eacute; well half & agrave; the current world record of individual distances & egrave; It was created precisely to Utah Olympic Oval. Forces and the ideal conditions are also there for the protagonists. In previous weekend they had been put on the scoresheet three new records. Two female with American Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe & ndash; respectively with 1 & rsquo; 12 & rsquo; & rsquo; 51 in 1000 and 1 & rsquo; 51 & rsquo; & rsquo; 59 meters in the 1500 & ndash; and one from the Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov, elevatosi man pi & ugrave; faster than ever on the 500 meters, routes 34 & rsquo; & rsquo ;. Therefore, c & rsquo; & egrave; to be sure, the challenge in Calgary & egrave; likely to continue also in Salt Lake City: Ice & egrave; l & rsquo; ideal. All three aim at improving themselves, with a privileged eye for the likely match between Richardson and Bowe: the two teammates competed at high speed & agrave; the 1000 and 1500 meters & ndash; in quest & rsquo; second case Bowe & egrave; It was overtaken by Richardson, with both under the previous world record & ndash; for which they promise again sparks. For long distances, of course Martina S & aacute; blikov & aacute ;, & gi agrave; winner of the 3000 Canada remains the number one favorite. In 500 & ndash; as always will be courses on two series & ndash; the challenge that is expected & egrave; all Asian: one is the world record holder, the Korean Lee Sang-Hwa and China's Zhang Hong.
Male, Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov tenter & agrave; to repeat the double success of Calgary on the 500 meters, possibly further lowering the world record. Difficult task but not impossible. In the 1000, however, will have & agrave; to deal with the most & ugrave; surprise of the first stage: l & rsquo; Dutch Gerben Jorritsma. The 1500 seem the distance open to any solution, with many favorites such as Russian Denis Yuskov (winner a week ago), l & rsquo; Dutch Kjeld Nuis, the Belgian Bart Swings or the American duo Mantia-Davis, with quests & rsquo; last eager to find the first podium of the season.
In the second stage of World Cup ISU, will debut & ndash; for the first and only time in World Cup 2015-16 & ndash; distances pi & ugrave; long program. Ie 5000 women and men's 10,000 meters that will help set up the rankings of specialty & agrave; accorpandosi the usual 3000 (for women) and 5000 (for men). But will & agrave; a & rsquo; almost unique opportunity to search for records: from this point of view in the first row there are Martina S & aacute; blikov & aacute; and Sven Kramer, both holders of Records & ndash; 6 & rsquo; 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; 66 the Czech, from 2011 and 12 & rsquo; 41 & rsquo; & rsquo; s 69 & rsquo; Dutch. Obviously they are two of them & ndash; gi & agrave; Winners in Calgary & ndash; prime candidates for victories as well as & eacute; candidates to improve. Kramer promises spectacle. It does not seem hard to imagine, since & eacute; the champion of Heerenveen three times Olympic champion has given up on competing in the 1500 meters & ndash; race scheduled Friday & Igrave; 20 & ndash; to concentrate its forces on 10 thousand the next day.
In the remaining races, l & rsquo; only other novelties & agrave; than the stage of Calgary will & agrave; represented by & rsquo; absence of the Team Pursuit & ndash; which he had awarded the & rsquo; Pursuit Italian male with a magnificent third place - in the program of the weekend the US, who will come back & agrave; in the third stage of Inzell, in early December. L & rsquo; unique team competition that will go & agrave; will be staged & agrave; the Team Sprint, the day & ndash; or rather the night Italian & ndash; Sunday 22.
Among the 244 skaters from 28 different countries, there are also Italians led by coach Maurizio Marchetto, coming off last weekend with a lot of positive notes. Absent from the program Team Pursuit, the greatest hopes for groped l & rsquo; assault on the podium are placed in the Mass Start. Male, will be two standard bearers blue: Andrea Giovannini and Fabio Francolini will try to improve the ninth and tenth place obtained & Outdoors; onset. Cos & Igrave; as Francesca Lollobrigida, 11th in Calgary. While there & rsquo; & egrave; waiting for review & Outdoors; operates the second blue Francesca Bettrone, excellent third place in the Mass Start on Sunday, but in the second division of merit.
In the individual distances, the Trentino Giovannini & egrave; l & rsquo; unique blue that partir & agrave; in Division A, in 10 thousand. It seems difficult groped an assault on the record of Italian Enrico Fabris & ndash; 13 & rsquo; 10 & rsquo; & rsquo; 60 that it resists since 2006 - but the Pinetano potr & agrave; however become protagonist. L & rsquo; sees Italy in pole position the blades fast: Andrea Bosa & ndash; in which 500 got in Calgary the new national record in 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 80 & ndash; Mirko Giacomo Nenzi, former record holder eager to ransom.
Click here for the full program and the schedule of the races to be held in Salt Lake City, rankings of the World Cup and Italians in the race. Recall also that it will & agrave; You can follow the live streaming & ndash; 21 pm Italian - s & rsquo; event through the & rsquo; ISU Skating Channel, from this link: http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesuite.net/isu/index.html.
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