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Second career win for Latvia Oskars'' Melbardis that quest today in St. Moritz won the sixth place in the World Cup four-man bob.
Sunday 12 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The pilot of Latvia, as usual, made a difference in the boost phase, in this fundamental avvantagiato the tremendous work done by the brakemen Dreiskens, Vilkaste and Strenga that'' have launched very quickly in the slow initial part of the famous Swiss gut.
Melbardis also on this occasion was very precise in the final round where he was able to squeeze the most of the last turns of the track, taking the high speed and further increasing the advantage over the first of the beaten path.
Behind closed off 23 cents Alexander Zubkov. The Russian, the third podium of the season has made too many mistakes during the decisive run failing to recover only 4 hundredths that separated him at the end of the first descent from the winner.
In third place came back the leader's Maximilian Arndt. From the German on this track a year ago won the world title, maybe we expected something more than the third step of the podium, which was given by convincing double victory in Winterberg. The twenty six year old Teutonic has, however, compromise the ability to fight for the victory in the first run where he finished in fourth place with a delay of 33 cents from Melbardis. In the final round Arndt scored the third part-time and has taken full advantage of the big favor that inadvertently caused him to Nick Cunningham rovesciatosi at the end of the track when he was about to get his first podium of the season.
Continue the great period of Chris Spring'' that this season he has given himself among the best specialists in the four-man bob. The Australian-born, Canadian passport,'' quest today has impressed in the delicate second run in which he ripped the second fastest time partial and recovered the beauty of four positions.
The top five is completed by veteran Thomas Florschuetz'' in order that preceded the home favorite Beat Hefti and the'' Steven Holcomb still disappointing that since the World Cup circuit has landed in Europe seems to be a distant relative of the ruler of the season.
Try undertone for the young German Francesco Friedrich and after the positive results of last weekend, returns to play a role of supporting actor in the discipline of bob that prediligie less. The Teutonic finished eleventh behind Kasyanov, Rush and John James Jackson'' s English.
Another race without infamy and without praise for the'' single blue crew at the start, as always piloted by Simone Bertazzo and brakemen Simone Fontana, Francesco Costa and William Frullani who finished in thirteenth place.
The next meeting with the world of the four-man bob is scheduled for seven days on the track at Igls.
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