Speed ​​Skating - The Mass Start at the Olympics in 2018
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How & nbsp; announced in recent days, a little less than 1,000 days from & rsquo; s start & rsquo; Winter Olympics of & nbsp; Pyeongchang 2018, the & nbsp; & agrave speed skating; Track Long & nbsp; officially welcomes the & nbsp; & nbsp Mass Start, which & nbsp; retested five circles & nbsp; (with six disciplines belonging to other sports). Decision & egrave; was taken from the & nbsp; & nbsp CIO; (IOC) at the meeting of the Executive Council of & nbsp; & nbsp Lausanne, held l & rsquo; 8 June.
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So you & egrave; concluded a process started a few years ago, he had seen the spectacular cuisine to apply agrave; ice that spread over 16 laps (6400 meters) starting group, three intermediate sprints & ndash; 4 & deg ;, 8 & deg; and 12 & deg; round & ndash; and the sprint at & rsquo; last lap. Competition that awards the victory to skater who scored more & ugrave; points in intermediate sprints & ndash; 5, 3:01 the first three & ndash; to which are added those of the decisive final shot & ndash; 60, 40 and 25 for the top three finishers nell''ultima sprint.
The first official Mass Start World Cup Senior arriv & ograve; in the 2011-2012 season. Then l & rsquo; introduction in 2015 in the program & ndash; identical to the Olympic & ndash; World Cup of Single Distances. Previously, for & ograve ;, the first to experience the race were the athletes of the junior categories. Junior World Cup of 2007, made it his first entry into the world calendar. Since then entr & ograve; part of the World Cup to the youth, to land then to Senior level.
From & rsquo; Olympiad Korean will become cos & Igrave; 14 & ndash; seven on the same number of male and female - the specialty & agrave; on long track for which you will assign the Olympic medals, confirming him as the first speed skating sport (for numbers of Olympic titles to be given in single edition) of the Winter Games. A number that the Olympics 1960 & ndash; edition in which for the first time the long runway in April & Igrave; to women - in today & egrave; almost doubled. L & rsquo; last new addition to the family of specialty & agrave; Olympic was the & rsquo; s Team Pursuit, introduced for the first time in Turin in 2006.
L & rsquo; Italy and the movement of ice skating can only look with confidence to this novelty & agrave ;. In the period in which the & rsquo; ISU (International Skating Union) has adopted in its international calendar the race with mass start, the Azzurri have lived different and favorable results in the Mass Start. Quest & rsquo; last & egrave; become a real breeding ground of satisfaction for the National engaged in a difficult generational ongoing. Recall, last in order of time at the recent World Championships last February, medal & rsquo; silver conquered by & rsquo; ex & ldquo; & rdquo rotellista; Fabio Francolini, second surprise of Single Distances Championships in Heerenveen (the Netherlands). In addition, the same skater canturino was already & agrave; on the podium in the World Cup on the same track: the legendary Oval Thialf, all & rsquo; absolute debut in the Cup, since when & Igrave; in third place.
In the World Cup the Azzurri can also boast two athletes capable of winning recently the group race, doing so & Igrave; Finally a fast of successes in the World Cup that had lasted since 2009, ie since the days of Enrico Fabris. Before we had thought Francesca Lollobrigida, victorious in the Cup Finals, also in Heerenveen in March 2014. Success that also earned him the first place final ranking of specialty & agrave ;. But the skater of & rsquo; gi & agrave Air Force; in 2013 he managed & Igrave; to capture his first career podium & ndash; second & ndash; in the stage of Inzell. Finally, at the Finals of quest & rsquo; year took third place in & rsquo; last test of 2015.
The same season in which & egrave; exploded the talent of Andrea Giovannini, who found his first career victory in the race held in November in Seoul, South Korea - just in the nation which will host the next Olympics, including Mass Start -. The Pinetano since & Igrave; also in third place in the ranking of specialty & agrave; behind Lee Seung-Hoon. It can be a good omen for the Games of 2018?
The Mass Start, specialty & agrave; young in a sport from the long-lived Olympic history and not just skating long track, it met the selection criteria desired by the IOC. The Olympic Committee has evaluated the new entries for 2018 according to the value added inherent in new tenders, dell''appeal on young people, the following television and media, the balanced presence of athletes of both sexes, operating costs, the number athletes involved and dell''impatto on the Olympic program. Features that are present in a decisive manner in a race for time-limited & ndash; less than 10 minutes for women-, competition, number of participants pi & ugrave; nations, uncertainty and spettacolarit & agrave; Media, & egrave; different from the classic & ldquo; & rdquo format; with departures in pairs in races against the clock. A specialty & agrave; appealing to the public, thanks to the possibilities & agrave; to play tactically & ndash; team to individually - during the race, and physical contact allowed & ndash; borrowed some extent by short track -, albeit within the limits of the Regulation.
In addition, as mentioned, the & rsquo; & Italy can ograve; enjoy a tradition so far favorable. The Mass Start had a function propulsion closer to the ice & ndash; and consequently to an Olympic & ndash; many athletes who practice and practiced skating wheels (Lollobrigida and Francolini, who were in the street skating championship, are an example). Additionally & egrave; discipline balanced with a high percentage of different winners. Since & egrave; It was introduced in the ISU calendar & ndash; ie four seasons & ndash; no athlete (men and women) & egrave; He managed to win twice the Cup of specialty & agrave ;. Even the new champions of the world in 2015 & ndash; Dutch Irene Schouten and Arjan Stroetinga & ndash; It had, until then, got a limited number - respectively three and one - of victories in Cup races.
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