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& Egrave; started this weekend with the Red Bull Crashed Ice in Quebec City, the seventh edition of the world championship of ice cross downhill. The new year & egrave; open with the winner of the final race of last season, or Cameron Naasz. & nbsp;
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The twenty-six US & egrave; It was dominant from the first round until the final, winning with authority & agrave; in all batteries, gaining the first position from the start and increasing their lead centimeter by centimeter. Not even a fall in the final all''imbocco's Last curve before the finish & egrave; He managed to prevent him from bringing home success, the fourth of his career in the races for the Red Bull Crashed Ice, to which should be added also the victory the 'Last year at Hastings in the first race of Riders Cup history.
After finishing the last three seasons in the top three in the overall standings without & ograve; never be able to win the title, 'athlete of Minnesota & egrave; trained hard this summer to improve every single detail of the race to be able to become world champion. The gap inflicted to his opponents & egrave; It was consistent in each round, and especially in the various segments of humps the gap between the US and its opponents & egrave; almost always increased considerably.
The positions from second to fourth went to three Canadians. Dean Moriarity and the reigning world champion Scott Croxall, after winning their second round, found themselves in the same battery in the quarter-finals, where they eliminated the Germans Niefnecker Martin and Fabian Mels, and the semifinals, where in bow out were the Swiss Killian Braun and the 'Austrian Dallago Luca. In the final, for & ograve ;, the two have had to surrender to Naasz, with Dean Moriarity who got second place and Croxall who won third place blowing it all''ultima hander Dylan Moriarity (sister of Dean), who finished fourth.
The 'Austrian Marco Dallago, world champion in 2014, & egrave; came out in the second round following a fall. The 'athlete of Graz, still affected by an ankle injury, finished in twenty-fifth place.
The women's race & egrave; It ended with a hat-trick Canadian Myriam Trepanier got the victory ahead of the countrymen Maxie Plante and Elaine Topolnisky, classificatesi respectively the second and third place. Fourth the US Alexis Jackson.
The team competition has instead given the success of the team Living the Dream (Cameroon Naasz, Scott Croxall and Adam Horst), ahead of Team UNRL (Matt Johnson, Daniel Bergeson, Tommy Mertz, Maxwell Dunne), seconds, and the Steal17 (Reed Whiting, Daniel Guolla, Dean Moriarity, Dylan Moriarity), third.
The next round of the world championship of ice cross downhill sar & agrave; Wagrain-Kleinarl, Austria, on 18-19 December, the first stage of Riders Cup. The next event of the Red Bull Crashed Ice will & agrave; all''Olympiapark of Monaco of Bavaria, in Germany, the '8 to 9 January 2016. & nbsp;
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