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Second consecutive win for Latvia Oskars'' Melbardis that quest today at Igls in the seventh round of the season has crushed the competition, staying in the fight with compatriot and skelettonista Martins Dukurs for the prize money of € 100 thousand due to the winner of all three of the great classics World Cup: St. Moritz, Igls Koenigssee.
Sunday 19 January 2014 4 minutes reading time
Melbardis accompanied by the faithful in the race Dreiskens brakemen, and Vilkaste Strenga has built success in today's final round, improving the record of pushing the gut and especially Tyrolean best interpreting the final part of the track, closing with the new primacy of'' facility. Right from the start it was clear that the reference clock of Latvians would hardly have been wrought by Steven Holcomb leading the race at the end of the first descent. '' The American who was driving a penny ahead of Melbardis fade saw his chance of success from the first meters of the final run, when he paid a brunt of 9 cents which is no longer able to recover along the way , finishing in second place trailing by 11 thousandths behind the winner.
The podium was completed by veteran German author Thomas Florschuetz the second fastest time of the day that allowed him to climb a place in the final round and get the second place in the top three this season. Behind Florschuetz he finished the'' American Nick Cunningham, who redeems itself quickly from the reversal of a week ago in St. Moritz and above all get the pass to participate in the next Olympic Games in Sochi.
Fifth position for the best of the Russians, Alexander Kasyanov, receding of two places compared to the first run but you take the luxury to get behind the leader of the general classification Maximillian Arndt and compatriot Zubkov. The head-ranking cup, this'' today turned in a mediocre evidence that there'' s ever saw in contention for the top three positions, but nevertheless can be satisfied as hay in the barn door further down the list, coming'' s last race of the season by a margin of 122 points out of 125 Zubkov and lengths of Holcomb.
To note the great performance of the Canadian Chris Spring, who with sixth place today continues its series of results at the top of the discipline, and English Lamin Deen'' s ex-brakeman Jackson that by that year,'' he experimented in the guise pilot and that after the successes in North-American Cup has got a great quest today'' eleventh place.
Continue the negative moment of Simone Bertazzo. The pilot of Pieve di Cadore accompanied by Simone Fontana, Constantine Ughi Costa and Francesco finished in sixteenth position by recovering two placings from the first drop-down list.
The next weekend in Koenigssee, Germany, will take place on the'' final act of this year's World Cup bobsled.
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