BobsleighBob - Calgary
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It'''' s American Steven Holcomb, the main protagonist of the first race weekend of the World Cup played in the gut of Calgary.
Sunday 1 December 2013 4 minutes reading time
The pilot of Park City'' quest today gave the United States the first victory of the season in the four-man bob, the first ever for the new slide (pictured) made by Whelen Engineering and ribatezzata Night Train 2, the means by which the'' American athlete will take during this season and that will lead in the race even at the next Olympic Games in Sochi, hoping to confirm the Olympic title won four years ago in Vancouver.
Holcomb accompanied by brakemen Tomasevicz, Langton and Fogt, has built its success today thanks to the exceptional times of thrust and a great first closed down the lead with the fastest time of the day. For the American sample ends like a dream weekend that allowed him to win two victories in two days.
The race today was characterized by very low separations, proof is the fact that the top ten have closed in the range of only 50 cents.
Behind Holcomb were placed with the same time Maximilian Arndt and Alexander Zubkov. The German dententore the world title in the four-man bob had closed the first descent into second place by a margin of just 2 cents on the Russian. In the second moto Zubkov, however, recorded a time of pushing slightly better than the rival that has allowed him to recover the'' small delay in the first half of the race and close with the same time of Arndt.
At the foot of the podium was placed landlord Chris Spring author of a great comeback in the second round. The neo-Canadian has in fact set the fastest time run in the final descent recovering four positions and ending just 2 cents from second place. Spring after this great weekend, which gave him a third and a fourth place, will have the difficult task to confirm these levels starting with the next round of the season in Park City.
The top five was completed by German Thomas Florschuetz who paid a total detachment from the peak of 19 cents. Always at home Germany, the talented Francesco Friedrich great protagonist of the two-man bobsleigh bob continues to struggle in the larger and quests'' today ended its test tredicesesima position.
The'' blue Simone Bertazzo won a decent eleventh place in the specialty that prefers less, getting the pass for the next Games in Sochi.
The next round of the World Cup four-man bob is planned time of 7 days on the track in Park City.
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