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Mikael Kingsbury and Justine Dufour-Lapointe come out victorious from the stage of the World Cup moguls which took place on the track of the US Lake Placid and win valuable points in both the World Cup of specialty & agrave; both in the general one.
Tuesday 3 February 2015 7 minutes reading time
In the women's Canadian twenties got his second consecutive victory in the moguls after winning the world title eleven days before. His score of 86.86 the & egrave; enough to precede by only 43 basis points the American Hannah Kearney, who after the 'silver at the World Championships had to once again bow to the pi & ugrave; young rival in this specialty & agrave ;. For the pi & ugrave; little sisters Dufor-Lapointe, this & egrave; the second consecutive victory in the World Cup after the successful test of dual moguls last January 10 in Deer Valley. As for Kearney, however, the three races in his country did not have brought no victory, but two second places (counting also the race of dual moguls Deer Valley won by Dufour-Lapointe) and a twenty-fifth position in the race moguls always in Deer Valley on January 9 that is complicating considerably the race to win the Cup standings. In any case, for the US this January 2015 rester & agrave; memorable thanks to the medal '' silver in moguls and that of 'gold in dual moguls obtained in what & egrave; was the 'last World Championship of his successful career.
Third place & egrave; went to un''altra Canadian, the nineteen year old Andi Naude, that his twenty-ninth race in the world circuit of maximum discipline got the first podium of his career for the score of 76.51, showing once again the 'extreme depth & agrave; whose formidable Canadian National has in moguls.
Still a fourth place, however, for Switzerland Deborah Scanzio after that race in dual moguls at Deer Valley had obtained the same placement. Even for her, as for Kearney, detachment from who 'has preceded & egrave; was only 43 basis points.
The 'Australian Brittney Cox, bronze medal in the recent World Championships, you & egrave; placed only eleventh.
With this success Justine Dufour-Lapointe has stretched the margin on Kearney is in the overall standings and in that specialty & agrave ;: in the ranking on the moguls the Canadian leads with 385 points against the 326 of the US and 252 of her older sister Chloe Dufour-Lapointe , results in crisis in recent races; as regards the overall standings, Justine Dufour-Lapointe leads with 77 points, ahead of Kearney, at 65 points, and the Canadian Marielle Thompson, leader of ski cross, stops 60.
In the men you Kingsbury & egrave; promptly redeemed after the defeat in this specialty & agrave; in the World Championships at the hands of the French Anthony Benna going to win the race. His 90.54 & egrave; was enough to guarantee him the fourth consecutive victory in the World Cup and to prove once again that the ninth race of Ruka in dual moguls was just a hiccup. After the bad test in Finnish ground in the opening game of this season's World Cup, the twenty-two of Quebec won the other four races so far in the world circuit up winning two medals in the meantime also iridescent: the 'silver in moguls and the '' gold in dual moguls.
Second place for the twenty-seven Russian Alexandr Smyshlyaev, Olympic bronze medalist and reigning world in this specialty & agrave ;, which with his score of 87.97 nothing has been against Kingsbury but you & egrave; also won his eighth career podium in the World Cup, the first in the season.
Another Canadian, the twenty-three Marc-Antoine Gagnon, took third place with 87.69 points, relegating the foot of the podium the neo-world champion Anthony Benna, fourth with a score of 85.96.
With this victory, Kingsbury mortgage his fourth consecutive World Cup moguls rising to 429 points, and if the Canadian were to continue at this pace will & agrave; impossible for his compatriot Philippe Marquis, 225 points, and the Russian Smyshlyaev, 221, worry the leader when there are now only four games (two of two moguls and dual moguls) at the end of the season.
The next round of the World Cup moguls sar & agrave; Saturday, February 7th at Val St.Come, Canada. & Nbsp;
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