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Go to the Swiss Fabienne Meyer (pictured)'' the last act of the Women's Bobsleigh World Cup, which took place in the early afternoon today in Koenigssee, Germany.
Sunday 26 January 2014 6 minutes reading time
At the start of the race today were all focused the spotlight on the challenge for the Crystal Ball which saw the beauty in the running of three athletes: Kaillie Humphries, Elana Meyers and Jamie Greubel, contained all three in the space of just 10 points.
At the end of the first descent, the discourse World Cup seemed already filed with the Canadian Humphries who had closed the lead with a margin of almost half a second against Meyers eighth in the standings, while Greubel had accused a gap of almost 7/10 . With this situation, the defending champion seemed to caress the already Coppone crystal having to simply play a final run clean and complete the work''.
In the final descent, however, Elana Meyers teamed with Aja Evans manages to pull out of the hat a perfect race, improving by almost a second reference your previous lap and started to climb gradually up position after position. As always the crew of'' USA 1 was sensational in the boost phase, but quest today'' Meyers turned in perhaps his best race of life, given that at the start when there were only the last two athletes, the U.S. was still the leading corner.
Swiss Fabienne Meyer'' s second in the provisional limit the damage at the top and ends in front of Meyers with 26 cents of benefit, ensuring the least successful in the European ranking. But everyone is waiting for the descent of Kaillie Humphries that strong of an advantage over rival 48 cents for the Cup should win the race hands down. Instead, you want the heavy snow, you want the'' emotion, Olympic champion begins to blatantly wrong in the middle of losing several cents and closing at the finish line in third place even behind Elana Meyers.
The Canadian with this result failed to win for the second consecutive year the World Cup, with a margin of just one point against Meyers. If Humphries had closed'' quest today with a time of just 4 cents higher than the ball would have taken the direction of the United States.
Returning to the discourse on the victory, Switzerland celebrates his first win ever in the women's bobsleigh and consequently also the first European title, and does so with his less noble athlete Fabienne Meyer, who, after several seasons experienced in the'' shadow of Caroline Spahni Quest'' year'' s age of 32 years seems to be blossomed, winning only in 2014, this Swiss national title and above the podium in the proof of Sankt Moritz.
In the ranking given to the crews of the old continent should be noted the'' silver'' s eternal Kiriasis, fourth overall, and the bronze'' s Dutch Esme Kamphuis (fifth in general) that finally returns to comment on last year's levels.
The disappointment of the day comes from Jamie Greubel that in the most important race of the year'' captures his worst result finishing in tenth place, and was beaten for the first time this season also from'' crew USA3 led the race from Jazmine Fenlator .
Final Standings World Cup women's bobsled
PosAtletaNat.Punti
1
Humphries, Kaillie
CAN
1629
2
Meyers, Elana
USA
1628
3
Greubel, Jamie
USA
1563
4
Kiriasis, Sandra
GER
1441
5
Martini Cathleen
GER
1394
6
Schneiderheinze, Anja
GER
1288
7
Fenlator, Jazmine
USA
1266
8
Meyer, Fabienne
ON
1265
9
Kamphuis, Esme
NED
1232
10
Willemsen, Elfje
BEL
1232
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