The junior championships are between my best memories of skating. You qualified, you leave to some ice rink you have maybe never been and you meet so many new people from all over the world. Some of those people try to get a world title, most of them just enjoy the life around skating, and this is something you should never miss.

I don’t know if skaters of 2007 enjoyed a lot during their Championship. They got a hard time I guess, looking to the result!! Tomorrow they still have to skate team pursuit that’s a very nice race. But today I want to say “bravo” to the 6 italian skaters who races in these 2 days. They got some personal best and they got some very bad race because of wind and hot weather. Brava Rita, you almost got top 10 during your last junior season. And bravo Marco, you showed you will give hard time to the others next year. Hope all of them are satisfied. And one more “bravo” goes to Baroni, who coached them definitely good during the all season. Now go and fight with the team tomorrow!

February is already almost gone. I’m having last week of training before leave next Monday to Calgary were (hopefully- never say never) I’ll get the second total World Cup of my career. I love to skate on fast ice and I’ll do my best to skate really fast there!!

Hi everybody.

I got an easy week end of competitions in Collalbo. I met Gerritsen and Timmer on the ice, but I was too tired to skate fast against them. One more week of training (probably without unfortunately compeeting in Erfurt on 1500m) and then will be time to rest waiting for Calgary, where I should raise my 2nd WORLD CUP on 1000m and Salt Lake where I will love to skate again single distances Championship.

But today I need to congratulate with my team mates ENRICO FABRIS who got silver medal in Heerenveen!!! So strong!! He seems so “big” on the TV, even if I know he is not that big!!

Picture by Angelo Brancato

1500 Meter

Saturday will begin the World Cup at the Oval Lingotto in Turin.

Chiara will race the 1500 mt checking her condition and triyng to improve her classification in the world cup for this distance.

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