SnowboardingParallel - Sochi
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The Swiss will require in the women's race, defeating Tomoka Takeuchi of Japan. Third place went to Alena Zavarzina. In the men's race triumphs Vic Wild, husband just Alenza, and go up on the podium with him Nevin Galmarini and Slovenian Zan Kosir. Little glory for the Blues.
Wednesday 19 February 2014 6 minutes reading time
Patrizia Kummer and Vic Wild: they are the first medaglaito'' s gold in Sochi 2014 with regard to alpine snowboarding. The Swiss and the'' Russian naturalized American have in fact won the test of Giant Parallel. Saturday's second race, the slalom.
The ruler of an entire season'' performs his masterpiece triumphing in the most important race of all: Patrizia Kummer, which in the short season of World Cup'' has dug the whole jackpot of Cups and specialty Cup overall, confirms the absolute queen of snowboarding parallel, taking home the test of PGS. A very shrewd conduct of the race has allowed Switzerland to manage the first run - where it is limited to being in the opponent'' s wake - and then give it all out in the second, a tactic that has paid at each stage of the competition , including the final where he faced and set its toughest opponent of the season, or the Japanese Tomoka Takeuchi. The cover, however if you take Zavarzina Alena, Russia Novosibirsk, one frightening collection of shoulder injuries, the wife of the American Wild Vic became Russian for love and today'' s gold medal in the men's competition. On the day when Ekaterina Ekaterina Ilyukhina Tudegesheva and betray the hopes of a medal'' whole nazionae, Alena blows typhoid Russian thronged in the parterre of Rosa Khutor and goes to get a bronze medal that has the flavor of the story. Absent of luxury to the party of Canadian and Austrian podium and yet the race had started well for the Canadians, who could count on be ntre rider in the final stage, but how much Caroline Calve Marianne Leeson and Ariane Lavigne have not been able to get into fight for medals. Worse went to Austria'', which collected the wood Ina Meschit, and have not even hit the qualifiers to the knockout stage as much as Julia Dujimovits Marion Kreiner. Little glory for the Italians in the race: Nadya Ochner printed only the twenty-sixth time, while Corinna Boccacini snatched the qualification to the knockout stages with the'' last time and unfortunately little has been against the Takeuchi.
There have been surprises even in the men's race. A race haunted by Italians, all gone out of the race already in the qualifiers. Best of the Blues was Roland Fischnaller eighteenth and off for a anything from the main draw, while Christoph Mick and Aaron have closed March twenty-eighth and thirtieth respectively. Disqualified finally Meinahrd Erlacher, as well as one of the names on the eve were among the favorites, namely Lukas Mathies, Austria. Austria who returns home empty-handed even in the male, while doing great feast Russia and Switzerland. Why Vic Wild takes a historic gold, because it'' s Nevin Galmarini silver, while each nation celebrates double medal in the day. Third place went to the Slovenian Zan Kosir, that the final rule in the small German Bussler. Away from the podium Andrea Prommeger, as well as the Canadian JJ Anderson, gold in Vancouver before retiring to grow blueberries ... and making a detour from Sochi to hunt gold per second to 39 years.
Saturday's slalom race in the program, which will hopefully be more congenial to the blues. For them it is necessary for an immediate redemption, because the potential of the team is very high.
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