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'' The American Steven Holcomb returns to lay down the law in the world of two-man bobsleigh, winning quests today'' Igls success in the penultimate round of the World Cup bobsled.
Saturday 18 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
Holcomb, the great protagonist of'' start to the season where he racked up a series of four consecutive victories, once the circus world champion moved to quell Europe seemed to have lost status as'' incredible shape and getting in Winterberg last week in St. Moritz only a seventh and fifth place, allowing Hefti returning in the fight for the victory in the overall standings.
Quest'' now the Olympic champion in four-man bob, assisted by his historical brakeman Steven Langton has made it clear from the very first things down by driving phenomenon in the most technical part of the basin Tyrolean and closing command to the first portion with an edge more than two-tenths to rivals.
In the final descent the pilot of thirty-three Park City has further ripped the fastest time in the heats, increasing its margin over opponents. With this success Holcomb reaches 25 career victories including 11 only in the two-man bobsleigh, reaching fourth place in the ranking of the most successful ever bobbisti Russian Alexander Zubkov.
Behind the winner came on a great fight for the last two steps of the podium, which involved five athletes: Hefti, Zubkov, Friedrich, and Melbardis Kibermanis, all five collected in a piece of 10 cents at the end of the first heats.
The winning design was the winner of the last two events, Beat Hefti, which closed at 23 cents for Holcomb but who nevertheless made a fool of just 5 cents Zubkov and only 8 cents a world champion Francesco Friedrich. With this result, the Swiss still holds open the fight for the Crystal Ball, albeit at a race to Holcomb has a margin of points rather reassuring'' on the Swiss, but in the world of bobsleigh anything can happen.
Closes the top five Canadian Justin Kripps, author of a great second run that allowed him to replace as many as four positions and to get the best result of the season. Behind him was placed Thomas Florschuetz that preceded the Latvians and Melbardis Kibermanis negative surprises in the final run.
The big beat of the day is undoubtedly the German Maximilian Arndt that thanks to a final round tutt'' clean but collapsed in seventeenth position in nearly a half second delay from Holcomb. Try opaque even to the holder of the cup of specialty, Lyndon Rush, which came in twelfth place.
Another disappointing performance for the Italian team that quest today'' was represented as usual by Simone Bertazzo and from the South Tyrolean'' Lukas Gschitzer to seasonal debut in the major circuit of the bob. Bertazzo paired with Francesco Costa scored the only fourteenth position, while Gschnitzer and the brakeman William Frullani have closed in twenty-second position.
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