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The Kazakh & nbsp; Yulia Galysheva & nbsp; and the Canadian & nbsp; Philippe Marquis & nbsp; come out winners dall''appuntamento of & nbsp; Ruka, in & nbsp; Finland, where yesterday began the & nbsp; World Cup Moguls 2014/15 & nbsp; with a test of & nbsp ; Dual Moguls.
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During this stage he made his first appearance for the & nbsp; first & nbsp; in & nbsp; & nbsp maximum world circuit; the new race format of & nbsp; Dual Moguls & nbsp; & that will agrave; identical both in men than in women: in this new format, there will be head to head to & nbsp; knockout & nbsp; from the first qualifying round, which will include up to a maximum of & nbsp; 64 athletes, who will become & nbsp; 32 & nbsp; in second round of qualifying, which in turn will become & nbsp; 16 & nbsp; in the second round, and cos & Igrave; on up to decree the & nbsp; podium positions. & nbsp;
The athletes were & nbsp; & nbsp combined; one against the 'other based on the position obtained from them in & nbsp; & nbsp ranking; in the World Cup of the & nbsp; last season. & Nbsp;
In the women's twenty-two & nbsp; Galysheva & nbsp; got his & nbsp; second success in career & nbsp; in the World Cup having the best in the final on the twenty-three Canadian & nbsp; Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, & nbsp; medal 'silver & nbsp; a & nbsp; Sochi & nbsp; in the moguls and & nbsp; medal 'gold & nbsp; in March 2013 just in dual moguls to the latest & nbsp; World Championships & nbsp; a & nbsp disputatisi; Voss, in & nbsp; Norway.
Young & nbsp; & nbsp Kazakh; in the semifinals had managed to get the better of twenty-eight US & nbsp; Hannah Kearney, holder of the World Cup of specialty & agrave; in addition to the general one, that in the last two moguls & nbsp; & nbsp Olympic Games, had won the medal 'gold in Vancouver and the bronze in Sochi. & nbsp;
The US in this race & egrave; was then able to conquer the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium by defeating in the final for the third place the twenty-six Canadian Audrey Robichaud, who in the quarterfinals was able to eliminate compatriot Olympic champion in office in moguls Justine Dufour-Lapointe. & nbsp;
In the men the twenty-five Marquis & egrave; managed to get his second career victory in the greatest world circuit in a race in which the major favorites to win are incurred in eliminations pi & ugrave; or less early. & nbsp;
After the 'era of Alexander Bilodeau, who retired after winning the second Olympic title in a row in Sochi, & nbsp; and with other actors such as the American Patrick Deenen and the Canadian holder Crystal Ball & nbsp; Michael Kingsbury disposed respectively in the first round of qualification and in the second round, the semifinals arrived four athletes not accustomed to results cos & Igrave; Important: the winner Marquis, the 'only one of the four who had already & agrave; gained success in the World Cup; the twenty-four Japanese Sho Endo, four podiums in World Cup before yesterday, the 'least of which was also the' single in dual moguls, obtained last March in his city & agrave ;, Iwanashiro, based among other things of Freestyle World Championships in 2009; the twenty-seven French Anthony Benna, three podium finishes in the World Cup before yesterday, the 'least of which was a second place three years ago on home snow in Meribel; the twenty year old American Thomas Rowley, in his second career appearance in the utmost world circuit after the twenty-second place in La Plagne last March.
Rowley Marquis eliminated in the semifinals before defeating Endo equilibrattisima in a final score of 18-17, rising cos & Igrave; on the podium of the World Cup for the sixth time, the first after the second place in February 2013 on the track of Russian Sochi, demonstrating cos & Igrave; the 'extreme solidity & agrave; men's team Canadian & egrave; managed to get the victory despite the withdrawal of Bilodeau and the early elimination of Kingsbury.
Anthony Benna & egrave; Rowley finished third by defeating the young in a small final conditioned by the fall of the US after the first jump, and that also saw the French blatantly wrong in the middle section of the track where & egrave; came out a couple of times from his own line. The Transalpine & egrave; been to & ograve; quick enough to recover the right line and prevent the recovery to the rival.
The pi & ugrave; nice surprise of the day & egrave; Rowley was: gold at the 2013 World Junior Championships in dual moguls, gold in moguls and dual moguls silver in the World Championships in the juvenile of 2014, the twenty year old is a candidate as the future star of the US in this specialty & agrave ;.
The Olympic bronze medalist Alexandr Sochi Smyshlyaev you & egrave; ranked fifth, while the 'only Italian race Giacomo Matiz & egrave; arrived thirty-eighth. & nbsp;
The next stage of the World Cup moguls sar & agrave; a double date on the slopes of Deer Valley Friday US & Igrave; 9 January, with a test of moguls and Saturday, January 10 with a test of dual moguls. & Nbsp;
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