OLYMPICS SOCHI, TODAY IS THE TURN OF CAROLINA KOSTNER: “I’M READY”

Carolina Kostner is surely one of the most highly anticipated athletes shipment blue . It was standard-bearer for Italy in the Olympics at home in Turin in 2006 , but so far his relationship with the Games has not been good for nothing and that is the only Olympic medal still missing in his extraordinary bulletin board. In a nutshell Carolina, beyond the Olympics , he won everything and is the Italian ice skater stronger than ever.

A favorite in Italy, especially among girls , but also abroad. A recent demonstration of the admiration that everyone tries against him was seen in Budapest , the last race in which he participated in January, the European Championships in 2014 , where he competed with a new program , even if it is not able to confirm the his leadership, has been acclaimed by the general public who only had eyes for her, even preferring it to the top two teams , the terrible ” girls ” Russian Julia Lipnitskaia and Adelina Sotnikova .

His performance in the short program to the tune of Ave Maria by Schubert, as well as that in the free program to the music of Ravel’s Bolero has earned a standing ovation , although in the latter case there has been a fall at the very beginning of the performance and has affected the final result from the technical point of view . As for the presentation , ie components, Carolina had no rival in Europe , but in the Olympics if the must see with defending champion Kim Yu -Na of South Korea and the silver in Vancouver , Japan’s Mao Asada .

Kostner is in its third participation in the Winter Olympics , the first time, in 2006, came ninth , while in 2010 he stopped in sixteenth place . These results certainly do not reflect their true value .