Olympic GamesPyeongChang 2018
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Historical gold ex-aequo in the two-man bob, exactly as it happened twenty years ago.
Monday 19 February 2018 4 minutes reading time
In 1998 were the Canadian crew of Pierre Lueders and David MacEachern and the Italian crew of Günther Huber and Antonio Tartaglia, this time the protagonist was again a Canadian duo formed by Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz together with the Germans Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten, not surprisingly Kripps and Friedrich are the two drivers who finished in the first two positions of the last World Cup with the North American winner. Ex-aequo then with the Canadians who were seconds after the first two heats while the Germans were even fifth, in the head were their compatriots Nico Walther and Christian Poser, relegated to fourth place today 2 tenths from double gold and 15 from Latvian Oskars Melbardis, in the smell of a medal in Sochi due to the probable disqualification of the Russian crews, and Janis Strenga. Canada got the two golds in this race on the occasion of the ex-aequo successes while Germany, divided and united, reaches a quota of seven and would have won alone the gold if the regulation had been that of 1968, when Eugenio Monti and Eugenio De Paolis ended ex-aequo with a western German crew but won in solitary thanks to the best lap time obtained. About Italy, this year for the first time in the Olympic history of this race no blue crew was present at the start.
Thanks to the gold in the 500 meters of speed skating, Norway had broken Germany for 10 gold to 9 at the top of the medal standings, then the Germans re-flanked after the two-man bob but were again detached after the team competition of the jump won for the first time in history by the Norge. HÃ¥vard Holmefjord Lorentzen won the shortest race of the long track, probably the favorite on the eve since he won three season races in the World Cup on the distance of which he is also leader. Gold is the fourth in this race for Norway but has been missing for 70 years. Lorentzen with a time of 34 "41 has filed a penny the Olympic record of the American Casey Fitzrandolph that held him since 2002 and has also beaten for a single cent the South Korean landlord Cha Min-kyu, the bronze, to 24 cents, the he has caught the Chinese Gao Tingyu who denies him for 3 cents to the Finnish Mika Poutala. Thirtieth the only blue on the track, Mirko Giacomo Nenzi. Closing as always with men's curling where Italy has suffered the fifth defeat in seven games by the hosts of South Korea for 8-6 and have virtually no chance to access the semi-finals.
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