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The day after the race of the World Cup aerials, in the resort & agrave; American Deer Valley & egrave; was the turn of the third round of the World Cup moguls. In the night between Friday Italian & Igrave; and Saturday the twenty-six US K.C. Oakley was able to celebrate his first career win in the World Cup, while in the men's Mikael Kingsbury won again after triumphing in dual moguls race Calgary the previous week. & Nbsp;
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Among women the 'other big surprise of the day in addition to the victory of Oakley & egrave; was the fall in the qualification of Hannah Kearney, who & egrave; left out of the final 16 ranking only twenty-fifth.
The Oakley, penultimate game in the super final, & egrave; managed to jump into the lead with his 82.53, surpassing the 79.28 of the Canadian Chloe Dufour-Lapointe. The 'last athlete to leave, the reigning Olympic champion Justine Dufour-Lapointe, younger sister Chloe, showed a score of 79.46, enough to override the older sister but not to undermine the command from Oakley, who before this victory had risen on a podium of the World Cup only once in Calgary on 28-01-2012, in which race was classified in third place.
For Chloe Dufour-Lapointe this & egrave; the third podium in as many races of the World Cup season played until now, after two second places in the opening race of Ruka and in the next one to Calgary. To his sister Justine, however, this & egrave; the second podium of the season after the third place in Calgary, while the Canadian Ruka had failed to get on the podium, finishing fifth. The eldest sister Dufour-Lapointe, Maxime, you & egrave; ranked fifth in this race, achieving his best result of the season after the ninth of Ruka and the 'eighth of Calgary.
In the men the twenty-two Canadian Mikael & nbsp; Kingsbury won again, bringing his score in World Cup races in twenty-three & eacute; forty-one wins and podiums. With 90.25 points, the Canadian preceded the big surprise of the day in the men's field, the twenty year old Australian Matt Graham, the first podium of his career in the World Cup with a score of 85.49. On the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; placed the US veteran Patrick Deneen, medal 'gold at the World Championships in 2009 and bronze Inawashiro all''ultima World Championships of 2013 in this specialty Voss & agrave ;, with a score of 85.07.
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