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An indentation is important for the blue ice. After five years & nbsp; Maurizio Marchetto & nbsp; & torner agrave; to lead in quality & agrave; & nbsp; head coach, the blue field of & nbsp; & agrave speed skating; Track long. Decision & egrave; It was announced on the sidelines of the Federal Council of the & nbsp; & nbsp FISG; (Italian Ice Sports Federation) held yesterday, May 30. His tenure guarder & agrave; up to & nbsp; Olympics of 2018. & nbsp; For Marchetto, returned from & rsquo; technical experience in & nbsp; & nbsp Russia, begun in 2011, is the second & nbsp; back & nbsp; in the National.
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& Egrave; the fact was he & rsquo; creator of the track of the most successful Italian discipline, arrived at the turn of the year & rsquo; 90 and culminating with the first & ndash; and so far unique & ndash; Olympic medals in & rsquo; 2006 edition of the Games, thanks above all & rsquo; exploits of Enrico Fabris (Marchetto & egrave; to his left, in the cover photo dating back to success in & rsquo; s Team Pursuit at Torino 2006).
The 59 year old engineer, Venetian-born brianzolo d & rsquo; adoption & egrave; was three times athlete blue Winter Olympics & ndash; Innsbruck between 1976 and Sarajevo in 1984 & ndash; and later mentor of the two pi & ugrave; winning Italian star in long track. Roberto Sighel Enrico Fabris, respectively the first Italian to become world champion allround in Calgary in 1992 and Olympic champion in the 1,500 meters in Turin 2006. Under his management arriv & ograve; l & rsquo; incredible and historic gold for the & rsquo; Italy in the Team Pursuit & ndash; composed by the same Fabris, Ippolito Sanfratello, Matteo Anesi, Stefano Donagrandi - always during the successful Olympic Games in Turin. Marchetto has led the Italian team on two occasions. First between 1984 and 1992, then from 1994 to 2010, Quest & rsquo; last year a disappointing Olympic for the speed & agrave; blue, waiting to repeat the difficult business of the previous games.
Then from 2011 she has cleared the way to & rsquo; post as technical driving & ndash; with l & rsquo; another head coach Kosta Poltavets - Russia to prepare the athletes to local & rsquo; appointment in five circles of the house, in Sochi. Before this four & ndash; officially ended in April 2015 & ndash; the technician Lombard had previously followed Ivan Skobrev (gi & agrave; under his leadership in 2010 together with the French Alexis Contin). Later reported the Russia women's podium allround champion contributing to the rise after a period of difficulty & agrave ;. In particular, prominent were the results of Olga Graf, silver at the World Championships & ldquo; complete & rdquo; 2014, and Ekaterina Shikhova, bronze in & rsquo; last year he had reported a Russian on the podium after 30 years of waiting. While at the World Single Distances on in 2013 they had reached the headlines with Olga and Denis Fatkulina Yuskov. The Olympic Games in Sochi 2014 & ograve; the speed skating Russia had not shone & ndash; remaining ignorant of gold -, disappointing the federal leaders despite two bronze medals conquered in & rsquo; Olympics dominated by an overflowing Dutch team: all & rsquo; Adler Arena, in fact, Olga Graf was bronze in the 3000 meters women, cos & Igrave; as the & rsquo; s Team Pursuit women, while Olga Fatkulina won the & rsquo; silver in the 500 meters.
This past April, not Marchetto & egrave; It was chosen as head of the industry & ndash; which he took care of the specialists on the medium and long distances & ndash; the Russian national. A group of skaters & nbsp; he had asked the confirmation ahead of the Olympic cycle to Pyeongchang 2018. Among them were exposed in favor of his re athletes as Aleksandr Rumyantsev, Olga Graf, Yuliya Skokova, Danil Sinitsyn, Natalia Voronina, Margharita Ryzhov, Anna Chernova and Danilo Semeriko . Appeal not heard from the Federation.
Cos & Igrave; It opens the & rsquo; & agrave opportunities; for a new challenge in blue for Marchetto. Might conceivably be l & rsquo; inclusion in future staff of two veterans from victory in & rsquo; s Team Pursuit 2006: Enrico Fabris, gi & agrave; collaborator in the National & rsquo; last season, and Matteo Anesi, now assistant coach Kenan Gouadec, ct short track. Cos & Igrave ;, after two years of technical management of Giorgio and Stefano Baroni Donagrandi & ndash; preceded by brackets of & rsquo; Dutchman Gianni Romme & ndash; the Italian coach will plurivittorioso & agrave; called to lead the talented duo launched by the technical in the last two seasons. Among the principal, Andrea Giovannini & ndash; blossomed in & rsquo; last season with his first historic victory in the World Cup Mass Start and the second place in the final of specialty & agrave; & Ndash; Fabio Francolini & ndash; athlete came from "wheels" to the bronze in the road race at the World Single Distances of Heerenveen 2015 & ndash ;, Mirko Giacomo Nenzi & ndash; blue best specialist in the distances faster, but awaited the final consecration which has yet to & ndash; and Francesca Lollobrigida, launched right from Rovigo, in 2008, in the National and currently best expression in pink on the ice of the runway length. A year ago, after the conquest of the cup of specialty & agrave; in the Mass Start, not the Roman & egrave; He managed to repeat in the season which closed in March 2015.
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