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The fifteenth season of the Red Bull Crashed Ice is & egrave; open on Saturday on the track in front of the Cathedral of the place CITY Saint Paul, Minnesota. This track, with its 460 meters, & egrave; the pi & ugrave; long circuit, and & egrave; from here & egrave; began the challenge to determine the world champion in 2015 of ice cross downhill. & nbsp;
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The twenty six year old Canadian Kyle Croxall, gi & agrave; world champion in 2012, is & egrave; imposed in the men winning for the third time the proof of Saint Paul, after the successes of 2012 and 2013, redeeming cos & Igrave; the disappointing results last season. For the victory of Croxall, that in the life of every day does the work of a firefighter in Calgary, & egrave; been instrumental in the fall of his brother Steph in the quarterfinals. The younger of the two brothers was in fact dominating the downhill, but & egrave; fell just before's Last curve leading to the finish line coming cos & Igrave; slipped from French Pacome Schmitt and his older brother, who seemed destined to an early exit from the race.
The second place & egrave; went to another Canadian, the twenty year old Dean Moriarity, who had won all the batteries that had participated in the knockout phase until the semifinals before losing to Croxall.
Third place for the real surprise of the day, the American Dan Witty, in his first career podium in the circuit. The boy of New Prague, Minnesota, in the quarterfinals & egrave; managed to get the better of the photo finish over fellow Whiting gaining second place behind Dylon Moriarity, twin of Dean, and in the semi-finals & egrave; been able to eliminate from the race for the podium just Dylon managing to finish second behind Dean Moriarity and conquering cos & Igrave; hardly a predictable ending.
Fourth place for the American Cameron Naasz, while & egrave; arrived only the fifth world champion, the 'Austrian Marco Dallago, eliminated in the semifinals after falling in the second corner. The 'Austrian & egrave; promptly raised after the fall, but Croxall and Naasz not have made mistakes and have managed to enter the final. Dallago had obtained the 'access to the semifinals in the quarterfinals despite the Finn Miikka Jouhkinmainen had complained after the race direction arguing that' the Austrian 'had pushed in the final corner of the track to go to take the second position. The jury for & ograve; decided to give a reason Dallago, despite the many doubts that arise watching the replay of what happened.
In the women's race & egrave; was dominated by the Finnish Salla Kyhala. The reigning world champion preceded in the final three Canadian athletes: nell''ordine Jacqueline Legere, Tamara Kajah and Gwynne Attenborough.
The next round of the Red Bull Crashed Ice sar & agrave; Helsinki, Finland, February 7.
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