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Fontana from record and Confortola from applause, short track Italy shines in the World Cup in Nagoya

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The splinters of the blue short track irradiate the ice of Nagoya. In the World Cup stage in Japan (second round of Olympic qualification for the Games next February in Beijing), Italy stole the show from the rest of the planet, thanks to the flare-ups of Arianna Fontana and Yuri Confortola.

The blonde lightning bolt from Berbenno is already in great shape and today she first collected a second place in the 1500 and then burned all the rivals in the 500 meters, the favorite distance of which she is also the reigning Olympic champion, confirming once more the most successful athlete in the history of winter sports in Italy. Ten years and a day after the first acute obtained in 2011 in Saguenay, the Italian flag-bearer at the last Winter Games in PyeongChang won success number 12 in the World Cup, confirming her particular connection with the ice of Nagoya, on which she has already triumphed. 3 times.

Shortly before, the woman with the most medal in the international short track at the Olympic Games (8 medals in four appearances between 2006 and 2018) had also collected a second place in the 1500 meters: the overall podiums in the World Cup are thus 39, to break away Fabio Carta from Turin who stopped at 37. No athlete in history had managed to establish himself at the age of Arianna, 31 years and 199 days. From the youngest medal in Italian winter Olympic history in Turin 2006 to today’s achievement: another record for the record skater.

Speaking of the longest distance, the undertaking of the day is that of Yuri Confortola. Never before today had the thirty-five year old from Bormio managed to get on the top step of the podium in an individual World Cup race. To do this, he used all his experience, sprinting like lightning at the start of the 1500s and managing to immediately gain a lap ahead of his rivals. None of the other finalists took the initiative, so the Carabinieri standard bearer was able to administer the initial advantage and cross the finish line in disbelief after 13 and a half laps of applause, giving a joy that Italy had lacked in the men for 15 years and 8 months (Nicola Rodigari first in the 1000 in Heerenveen in February 2007).

To complete the great Italian day, good news also arrived from the relay races: both the women’s and men’s quartets qualified for tomorrow’s finals and promise sparks. The ice of Nagoya is always bluer.

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