BobsleighBob - Lake Placid
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Today, Sunday, December 15th, Steven Holcomb came right in the history of the bob. The American bobsledder is the first ever to have won seven consecutive games in the World Cup whereas both disciplines in the bob.
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Holcomb, a native of Park City,'' quest today just in Lake Placid on his favorite track and in front of their home crowd has hit new records. The U.S. in the lead after the first round had the proverbial sweat seven shirts reason for having a wonderful John James Jackson author of an amazing second run.
The undisputed leader of this start to the season, accompanied by brakemen Tomasevicz, Langton and Fogt he managed to only 7 cents'' the British crew taking the third consecutive victory in the four-man bob with the new Night Train 2.
In place of honor'' as written previously ranked team JJ Jackson. The British sixth after the first run was the best in the downhill final recovering four positions and centering the best career result. Saturday's performance of Jackson's awesome if you think that at the beginning of July, the British driver has seriously threatened to blow up the whole season'' for the'' d'' Achilles tendon injury.
The podium was completed by Thomas Florschuetz dropped one spot than the first run, but you can take comfort, however, for the best result in this edition of the World Cup. Behind him trailing by a single penny has closed the Canadian Chris Spring while in fifth place completed the Latvian Oskars Melbardis.
Second race to forget for the world champion in the discipline Maximilian Arndt. The German second ex-aequo at the end of the first round has completed the second run in seventh place coming from Russian Kasyanov also bypassed.
Great result for the Dutch crew'' Van Calcker that has hit the top ten after a long time closing'' s eighth place, and for the Russian Zakharov who finished in tenth place just ahead of the more famous companion of placement Zubkov team.
Another disappointing performance for Simone Bertazzo. The Italian Coast accompanied by brakemen, Fontana and Berdini finished in sixteenth place.
The next round of the World Cup bobsleigh is scheduled for the first weekend of January in the gut of Winterberg in Germany.
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