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It opens with the victory of Steven Holcomb (pictured) the thirtieth edition of the World Cup two-man bobsleigh staged in Italian night in Calgary.
Saturday 30 November 2013 5 minutes reading time
The'' American'' quest today assisted by the brakeman Steven Langton has been able to drive the new bob brilliantly realized by BMW North America, marking the first drop in the already new track record. In the final run for the pilot of Park City turned in a clean round that allowed him to sign the best part-time increasing its lead over the rest of the group.
Holcomb quest'' today showed that he had found a great feeling with the new futuristic bob designed by the German manufacturer. Particularly in today's race hit the clean lines of'' American'' in the face Kreisel and the next maze in which you always come out without the slightest smear unlike other crews who instead tended to intraversarsi.
Already begin to talk about Steven Holcomb as a possible dominator of the season is still early, but certainly the evidence today of the pilot Stars and Stripes has wowed fans and rivals.
In second place trailing by 16 cents ranked the Helvetic'' Beat Hefti. The Swiss paired with Baumann in the second run was able to climb over the amazing crew of 4 cents of Canada 2, piloted by Chris Spring, the second at the end of the first descent. Australian Spring'' s Canadian origin but in effect since last July, you can still celebrate the gut of the house and in front of their first podium of his career.
At the foot of the podium trailing by 28 cents winner Alexander Zubkov has closed. The Russian was not brilliant in the boost phase and cents earned in this fundamental cost him a place in the top three.
Behind Zubkov were placed Latvians Melbardis-Dreisksen. The Baltic, as usual, they did score the best chronometric references at startup of the race and the second race were the protagonists of a stunning comeback that led from ninth to fifth place.
The world champion of the specialty Francesco Friedrich was once again the best of the German team. The young driver Teutonic quest today'' has not hit the podium as happened repeatedly in the past season, but thanks to a good final run ended in sixth place, ahead'' in order Kasyanov, Rush, Butner and Cunningham.
The United States can'' quest today not only to celebrate the success of Holcomb but also to have placed all three teams at all'' inside the top ten. Who smiles less is Germany that apart from the usual Friedrich, got a test team undertone. Arndt and Florschuetz were classified respectively in the eleventh and twelfth revealing departure times rather high.
Start with a thirteenth place on the new bob'' s adventure created in collaboration between the cones and the Ferrari Simone Bertazzo. The'' blue'' quest today paired with Simone Fontana has spoken on the same time push the Germans Arndt and Florschuetz, but it is not riusciuto to be decisive in the stretch of the race more congenial to him than driven. We hope that the encouraging performance of the new bob manifested during the first test season, could be confirmed as early as the next round of the world circuit which will take place in seven days in Park City.
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