Holcomb closes with another trials victory. Butner and Cunningham qualified for next season

Holcomb chiude i trials con un'altra vittoria. Butner e Cunningham qualificati per la prossima stagione
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Holcomb closes with another trials victory. Butner and Cunningham qualified for next season

In the night between Saturday and Sunday Italian, the two races were sailed valid for the second and final qualifying trails to define the crews of American four-man bob that will represent the United States in the next season.

The gut of Park City, Utah, the leader of the formation of the stars and stripes Steven Holcomb again reiterated his law trimming 45 cents to 84 cents to Nick Cunningham and Cory Butner. The pilot house real specialist in this discipline of the bob, he reappeared at the start of the second round, along with the same brakeman that the previous day led him to equal the record of starting system'' of the Rocky Mountains and has used the same sled with which he graduated Olympic champion in 2010 (pictured). '' In this occasion, Holcomb, Langton and Tomasevicz Fogt not been able to get close to record split times in the boost phase, but they still signed to the best chronometric performance of the two days of Park City. "It's nice to compete on the field and see the results of a long pre-season," said an elated Steven Holcomb after the race continuing, "I'm happy to have competed with the old bob and you have verified that it is still so fast. We wanted to do a simple test to figure out what'' bob is currently the fastest. " Holcomb among other things closes the four trails selection with four convincing victories, the first obtained in Lake Placid in the bob to two, the second between the bob always smaller in Park City and the last two in the same but in the gut of Utah four-man bob. At the end of the trials were released the names of bobbisti that will be part of the team of the World Cup. The pilots Holcomb, Cunningham and Butner were entrusted respectively bob USA1, USA2 and USA3. As for the brakemen were selected 11 athletes: Chuck Berkeley, Adam Clark, Andreas Drbal, Chris Fogt, Chris Langton, Steve Langton, Abe Morlu, Justin Olsen, Johnny Quinn, Dallas Robinson and Curt Tomasevicz.

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