Second competition day
The heat is on: Meng and Ohno want to get revenge
07/03/2009 - The second day of the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating
Championships in the Ferry-Dusika-Stadion in Vienna will bring the decision
over 500 meters for ladies and men. Especially two skaters want to get
their revenge: Defending champions Apolo Anton Ohno (USA) and Wang Meng
(China) got nothing yesterday with Apolo finishing fourth over 1.500
meters and Meng winning the race but being disqualified afterwards.
Also last year's men Silber medallist, Charles Hamelin (Canada), was
stopped by a disqualification in yesterday's semi final.
Before the competitions of the second day, 1.500 meter World champion
Min-Jung Kim (Korea) leads in the ladies' overall classification, compatriot
Ho-Suk Lee in the men's clasification. The competition will start at
12:00 o'clock (GMT+1) today with the ladies' preliminaries. In the first
men's preliminary at 12:50, Austrian local hero Andre Pulec has to beat
US-american athlete J.R. Celski, who won the Bronze medal yesterday
if he wants to advance to the Quarter Finals. This all ensures a thrilling
second competition day in the Ferry-Dusika-Stadium.
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