To compete in some Olympic Games It’s one of the big goals of most athletes and that is why they dedicate years of work and effort to obtain the results that allow them to attend. Beijing organizes the 24th edition (February 4 to 20, 2022) of the Winter Games and in figure skating Spain Has got Double bed. One in the pair mode, already awarded to Laura Barquero Y Marco Zandron after his brilliant second place in the Oberstdorf Nebelhorn Trophy, and another in dance on ice. And there two duets they dispute that precious ticket in a fratricidal battle.
Sara hurtado (Madrid, 29 years old) and Kirill Jalyavin (Kirov, Russia, 31) obtained the Olympic quota for our country thanks to being eleventh in the Stockholm World Cup 2021 … but that square is not nominative and is the Federation of the corresponding country, in this case the RFEDH, which must designate skaters who will represent them at the Olympic event. And that’s where the other top-level Spanish duo enter the fray: Olivia Smart (Sheffield, England, 24) and Adrián Díaz (Barcelona, 31).
How will it be decided? The selected couple will be the one that adds highest overall score in three competitions, two already disputed: the Finland Trophy (0.25 in favor of Olivia and Adrián) and the Spanish Championship in Jaca (8.12 also for the British nationalized Spanish and Catalan). Ahead, only the Tallinn European Championship (Estonia), from January 12 to 16, and the rent to be paid by the Madrilenian, who attended the Sochi 2014 Games with Adrián, and the Russian-Spanish is 8.37 points.
A difficult challenge for the national representatives of the specialty in Pyongyang 2018 (12th position), who carry together since 2016, and they are the first Spanish couple to win a medal in a Grand Prix (silver in the 2018 Rostelecom Cup). This year, in addition of the 11th World Cup, They were bronze in the Lombardy Trophy and fourth in two Grand Prix circuit events: the NHK Trophy (Tokyo) and the Rostelecom Cup (Sochi). For its part, Olivia and Adrián, united on the ice since 2017, they have been on the podium in their last two international competitions, the Grand Prix Skate Canada and the Austrian Cup of the Challenger Series. They had previously been fourth in the Skate America Grand Prix and the Finland Trophy.
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