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Last weekend the World Cup ski cross has experienced a double date in Are, Sweden, and the athletes did not betray expectations before giving rise to what is perhaps & egrave; was the pi & ugrave; nice stage season so far.
Wednesday 18 February 2015 9 minutes reading time
On Saturday the 'idol Victor Oehling Norberg took home his third consecutive victory after the two victories in Arosa the week before, preceding the end of a hard-fought final the Olympic champion Jean Frederic Chapuis, who has tried in every way to overtake the winner of the day for the duration of the final, without & ograve; never succeed.
Third place & egrave; went to another Swedish, the twenty-eight Michael Forslund, in his first World Cup podium of his career. Fourth place for 'another Frenchman Bastien Midol, medal' silver at the World Championships in Voss in 2013, to which no & egrave; could grab another podium after the third place the previous week.
Twenty-eighth place finish for the 'Austrian Thomas Zangerl, returned to racing after missing the' appointment of Arosa because of nasty blow taken at the World Championships last month, and thirty-first for German Andreas Schauer.
Among the Italians, the 'single to score points & egrave; Stefan was Thanei, twenty-fourth, while Diego Castellaz, Marco Tomasi and Francesco Mauriello were all three eliminated in qualifying, respectively with the thirty-fifth, forty-first and forty-eighth time.
In the women's twenty-two French Alizee Baron & egrave; managed to get his first win in the World Cup in career prevailing in a hard-fought final on the two Austrian Katrin Ofner and Andrea Limbacher, second and third respectively at the finish line.
This final has had a quartet unexpected, and there & ograve; & Egrave; was due to the premature elimination of Anna Holmlund, Fanny Smith and Ophelie David. These outputs are also added to the absences of two Canadians Marielle Thompson and Georgia Simmerling, have an accident during the World Championships.
The final & egrave; was still one of the pi & ugrave; exciting in the history of specialty & agrave ;, thanks to constant change of position and with each of the three athletes who drew a different line in the curve in counter at the end of the track.
Eventually & egrave; was the young Transalpine to win, with that Ofner & egrave; back on the podium of a race of the World Cup after over a year and the Limbacher who got another good result after the world title won three weeks before.
Fourth place for the Russian Yulia Livinskaya and seventh for the twenty-two blue Debora Pixner, both the best career result in the maximum world circuit of the discipline.
On Sunday, French Chapuis, after the second place the day before, & egrave; managed to take revenge by going on to win his third race of the World Cup in career and in so doing to recover 94 points in the standings at the Swedish Oehling Norberg, ranking only twenty-fifth on this occasion.
The world champion of 2013 had even risked being eliminated in the semifinals managing to secure the second position only in the last meters of the track against the compatriot Miaillier, but had no rival in the final, and even the Swiss Alex Fiva, who finished second at the finish line after a bad start, & egrave; never able to question the success of the Transalpine.
Third place went to the German Paul Eckert, in his first career podium in the World Cup, and fourth place for the 'other French Tchiknavorian Terence, who has abandoned all hope of grabbing his first podium in the maximum circuit world ski cross after a contact with the Teutonic Order.
Another bad race for Schauer and Zangerl, respectively fifteenth and twentieth to the finish line, while among the Azzurri c '' & egrave; to report the bell''undicesimo place of Marco Tomasi, the best career result. As for the other Italian athletes, others arrived Cup points for Stefan Thanei, the best result of the season with its eighteenth place, while Diego Castellaz and Francesco Mauriello were both eliminated in qualifying respectively with the thirty-sixth and forty-first time.
In the women's Swedish Anna Holmund & egrave; managed to redeem himself after the 'output to the quarterfinals of the day before going on to win with authority & agrave; dominating the race for all batteries. The 'ultimate success of Scandinavian had been in the race Voss of 19-03-2011.
In the final, both Fanny Smith is Andrea Limbacher did harakiri after both fallen only because of them and leaving cos & Igrave; the twenty-two Czech Andrea Zemanova second place and joy for his first podium of the World Cup in his career.
The Limbacher, despite the fall, & egrave; managed to grab another third place by replicating the result of the previous day. At the foot of the podium Smith. Another nice seventh place for Pixner.
After this stage, Swedish, when there are only three races to go this season's World Cup ski cross, in the ranking of specialty & agrave; male leads the Swedish Oehling with 417 points, followed by the French who Chapuis & egrave; 30 lengths away. Pi & ugrave; detached the other, with the third place that & egrave; German Schauer to 221 points.
Among women, however, Anna Holmlund, with 455 points, ahead of 48 lengths Fanny Smith and 107 points Alizee Baron.
The next events with the highest world circuit of freestyle will be next weekend: Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 there will be & agrave; a double date with the ski cross in the resort & agrave; German Tegernsee; Also on Saturday the 21 World Cup aerials will live & agrave; his penultimate round of the race to be disputer & agrave; in Moscow. & Nbsp;
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