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Francesco Friedrich is the great protagonist of the bobsled World Cup. The Pirna phenomenon in Lake Placid proved once again unbeatable, taking the seventh win of the season in seven races played in the two-man bob.
Monday 18 February 2019 6 minutes reading time
The Olympic Champion of Pyeongchang 2018 paired with the brakeman Thorsten Margis has won for the third consecutive race both the races in the program, slipping important gaps to the rest of the company.
The 28-year-old from Saxony has preceded by 28 cents the surprising French crew piloted by Romain Heinrich and driven by Dorian Hauterville who gave France the first historic podium in a two-man bobsled race in the World Cup. In the history of the bob never a transalpine fellowship had gone so far, the only placements in the top three for the French colors had so far always arrived in the four-man bob, the last of which arrived at the 1999 World Championships with at the helm Bruno Mingeon.
Third position for the other Olympic champion of the specialty, the Canadian Justin Kripps, good at going up four placements during the second heat. Kripps preceded by 3 cents the German Nico Walther and 11 the Latvian Kibermanis. Final race to forget for Johannes Lochner who, due to a macroscopic error committed a few corners from the finish line, sank from the first to the seventh position.
In the general standings when there is no single appointment at the end of the season he commands full score Francesco Friedrich, who has a margin of 188 points on Kibermanis, the only athlete who is still mathematically in the running for the Crystal Ball.
In the four-man bob the Canadian Justin Kripps and the brakes Coakwell, Sommer and Stones put an end to German domination in this specialty. The crew of Canada thanks to a second round of exclamation point has recovered from the fourth place partial gaining the first success of the season.
Kripps has beaten the Latvian Oskars Kibermanis by just 7 cents, thus taking the fifth podium in seven races, and 13 cents Russian Maxim Andrianov who has achieved the best result of his career. Fourth position for the leader of the ranking Francesco Friedrich, 16 cents away from the top, who at Lake Placid has interrupted his series of six consecutive podiums.
The great protagonist of the day was the Monegasque Rudy Rinaldi who was about to give the small principality an extraordinary success. The bronze medal of the 2012 Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games was even driving the race after the first fraction, but a mistake made by the first half of the second descent led him to overturn causing him to fall from the first to the nineteenth and last place.
Rinaldi himself was involuntary protagonist of an episode that could have very serious consequences. The Monegasque driver, just a few meters from the finish line, saw the road being cut off by a track attendant who jumped off the track a few moments before being hit by Rinaldi's bob. A very dangerous situation that we hope will be taken the appropriate measures by the International Federation (IBSF).
Among women the second consecutive win this season for the 'American Elana Meyers-Taylor who paired with the braking Lake Kwaza has won a comeback home race. The two-time Olympic silver medalist preceded by 38 cents the Canadian Christine De Bruin and 48 the first of the German Stephanie Schneider who led the competition at the end of the first round. Fourth place for the Olympic champion Mariama Jamanka who strengthens her leadership in the general classification. Teutonic has now a margin of 91 points on compatriot Schneider when there is only one appointment at the end of the season.
Next weekend will be the Calgary gut in Alberta to host the eighth and final round of the most important bobsleigh series. An appointment that except for sensational twists will give Germany all three Crystal Spheres.
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