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And finally arriv & ograve; the day of glory for & nbsp; Andrea Giovannini. & Egrave; he 'expected & nbsp; & nbsp Italian; watching all opponents turning to them, rejoicing and exulting. After more than & nbsp; five years, a & nbsp; blue & nbsp; back to win in Cup & nbsp; World and ends straight on top of the podium of an oval track of & nbsp; speed skating. Finally & egrave; came a successor to & nbsp; Enrico Fabris & nbsp; after his last Cup victory in December 2009. The conquest of Trentino, dominating, the & nbsp; Mass Start, try closing of the second stage the World in Seoul.
Sunday 23 November 2014 12 minutes reading time
L & rsquo; blue seemed in a state of grace. Could be guessed in recent weeks & ndash; seventh place all & rsquo; its debut in the Mass Start and silver in Division B in the 5000 meters, culminated yesterday with the tenth place in the 10 thousand & nbsp; & ndash; and it was expected soon & ldquo; the pass & rdquo ;. At Taereung Ice Rink, however, the 21 year old has decided to break through the inertia immediately to go and take the first victory in World Cup ISU. And l & rsquo; he did in a really impeccable, authoritarian, in & rsquo; exciting points race.
Of the 26 competitors at the start, Giovannini has seen a few really close, if not at the start and then when a few daring chose to follow him in his tactic d & rsquo; attack. The fact is that in the 16-lap race, l & rsquo; blue & egrave; returned to write the history of the sport winning Italian. Ed & egrave; There & ograve; that counts.
The race of the financier of Baselga di Pin & eacute ;, & egrave; perfect, courageous, intelligent and explosive. Together with his partner in blue Nicola Tumolero, you could wait even some team game & ndash; important in the points race. But after the start s & rsquo; realizes that sar & agrave; the Austrian duo to want to do the race: cos & Igrave; the first sprint if the & ldquo; & rdquo divide; teammates Smallenbroek and Heidegger before the Polish Cieslak. Giovannini, for ograve ;, & recovers positions and ground even if it fails to score points. Do not give up and seems to have a specific purpose: to attack. Tira, you put in front of everyone and gives his gait, splitting in two & ndash; move that will prove & agrave; invaluable in & rsquo; economy of the race - the large group of pursuers. Cos & Igrave ;, the sprint of less than 8 laps & ndash; half & agrave; Race & ndash; makes its voice and adjusts the sprint four, or those who have benefited the group. Conquest 5 points partial Japanese Tsuchiya and Heidegger. The Trentino not give in and look l & rsquo; yet another extension immediately after the sprint, it really seems inexhaustible and enormously brave. It only follows Heidegger. And quest & rsquo; & ograve can not last; that let him first place & ndash; and cos & Igrave; other reserved to the first 5 points - all & rsquo; last intermediate sprint. Giovannini takes the championship lead to partial points. Now you should only place in the final sprint to draw at least the podium.
But Andrea & egrave; unleashed and scored another to minus two laps from the end. Do not n & rsquo; & egrave; Competition who had followed him in & rsquo; attack and there seems no hope even for the group in a desperate attempt to recover him. Cos & Igrave; l & rsquo; Austrian detaches and l & rsquo; blue goes to take, almost in a parade, a huge victory. 70 total points and exultation rightly incredible. Behind him recover desperately Latvian Haralds Silovs and the winner in Obihiro, Lee Seung-Hoon who seek to resume the & rsquo; blue in the final, but you have to settle for second and third place in the final sprint, never challenged for the win, final. Earn respectively 40 and 20 points placed dedicated to all & rsquo; arrival. Not baster & agrave ;. L & rsquo; another Italian in the race, Nicola Tumolero, will square nineteenth and he rejoices with his companion. Moreover, incamera even six points in the standings specialty & agrave ;, settling in fifteenth place.
As for Andrea Giovannini, the recent winner goes to the second place in the overall World Cup Mass Start, 30 points behind the leader.
But the day was blue in Seoul started well & ndash; Italian in the night - thanks to a try finally worthy of its reputation. Let's talk about Mirko Giacomo Nenzi that, forced to & ldquo; & rdquo relegation; Multiple (from 500 to 1500 meters) in Division B after practice opaque Obihiro during the last week of racing, shooting a bit & rsquo; of what he had lost. The Venetian finishes second in the race & ldquo; B & rdquo; of 500 meters (second series) won by & rsquo; Dutch Pim Shipper in 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 66. But encourages a time of 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; s 93 & rsquo; blue in the sprint race, where until last season could finish in the top 10 of the first group. Meanwhile, the bearer of yellow flame earns major points & ndash; 19 with this second place & ndash; that will be used to get back on top and point to a placing in the top 20 in the ranking of specialty & agrave ;. Top 20 would enjoy their stay in Division A. In the same race, the other two blue engaged & ndash; David Bosa and Luca Zanghellini & ndash; end up twelfth and sixteenth.
In the race of the & ldquo; big & rdquo; & Egrave; came the success of Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov in 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 18 front, respectively for 14 cents and 17 cents, the Korean Tae-Bum Mo and Canadian Laurent Dubreuil. The 20 year old Vorkoeta & ndash; CITY Russia in the area of ​​& rsquo; Arctic - find cos & Igrave; the fifth victory in what & egrave; a season d & rsquo; incredible debut. Remains cos & Igrave; Also overall lead.
In the Mass Start women, encouraging tenth place of reigning champion Francesca Lollobrigida, all & rsquo; seasonal debut in the cup, just on the ice in Seoul. L & rsquo; blue potr & agrave; focus on skating, trying to defend the title of queen of specialty & agrave ;. Not sar & agrave; not easy for her, as they moved the & ldquo; big & rdquo; gauges on track Korean Taereung. & Egrave; in fact back to win the super champion Czech Martina S & aacute; blikov & aacute ;. Quest & rsquo; last preceded the main rival of our Lollobrigida in 2013-2014, l & rsquo; Dutch Shouten Irene, and the winner of the Mass Start of last week, the Canadian Ivanie Blondin.
In the women's 1,000 meters, instead of the one that comes & egrave; Perhaps the biggest surprise in a weekend widely surprising. Vince young Chinese Li Quishi. Semiesordiente the class of 1993, had his best result of the Cup before this season, a 14th place in 1000. Then, in Obihiro & ndash; third in 1000 & ndash; Seoul and l & rsquo; explosion. The Li is exceeded wins in one & rsquo; 16 & rsquo; & rsquo; 95 also establishing a new track record. Preceded the great favorite & ndash; confermatasi in great shape - Eve Marrit Leenstra (1 & rsquo; 17 & rsquo; & rsquo; 06) and the Czech Karolina Erbanov & aacute; (1 & rsquo; 17 & rsquo; & rsquo; 33). Ireen Wü; st, 19 podium finishes in his career on 1000 and silver in Obihiro on distance, stops only at sixth place in one & rsquo; 18 & rsquo; & rsquo; 17. Yvonne Daldossi, engaged in Division B, concluded in fourteenth place in one & rsquo; 22 & rsquo; & rsquo; 18.
The World Cup will resume ISU & agrave; very soon from & rsquo; Europe. The next stage, the third in the seasonal calendar, will be held & agrave; in Berlin in the classic oval Sportforum Hohensch & ouml; nhausen. I have an appointment December 5 to 7.
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