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Great show at the Olympic Sliding Center Sanki of Krasnaya Polyana where he has just finished the second round of the four-man bob. At the command of the race remains the Russian Alexander Zubkov, great pre-race favorite, but now has a margin of just four cents on rimontante Oskars Melbardis (pictured) great protagonist of this second round.
Saturday 22 February 2014 11 minutes reading time
The Baltic, winner of two races this season's World Cup, was'' one of the top drivers to approach the time of the first run, managed to establish an excellent reference lap track despite a much slower and more worn compared to the initial descent.
Melbardis Dreiskens with his companions, and Vilkaste Strenga has equagliato in this second half of the record push previously clocked by Steven Holcomb, driving in the second part of the track without making any apparent barbs and crossing the finish line with the fastest time in the heats. With this great performance, the Latvian has recovered so well 4 positions taking just 4 cents from the leader of the Alexander Zubkov. Quest'' last'' despite an excellent first half of the race was not flawless in the final stretch where he confirmed to have a bob much slower opponents, meter by meter, squandering the advantage of which boasted 29 cents against Melbardis .
In third place went to the German Maximilian Arndt author of several smears that did not allow him to repeat the'' exceptional speed peaks touched down in the first, that perhaps they would have avoided losing further ground against Zubkov. Quarter, but at a single cent from the podium and seventeen cents from the peak, ranked Steven Holcomb, also'' Arndt as he drove on but not exceptional that despite everything is still in full swing for the Olympic gold''.
In this second run, there has been a competition capital with several crews that have kept pace with the best making it even incertissimo'' s outcome of the race. At the moment the top ten of the rankings are all within less than six-tenths and two more tests to be run, anything could happen.
The top five is completed by veteran Thomas Florschuetz author of excellent descent who has earned four cents on the'' last place on the podium. Behind him he placed the Russian Kasyanov that preceded a tiny penny a wild John James Jackson thanks the second time round has recovered three positions. Rounding out the top ten, the'' Swiss Hefti, the German Friedrich and the Canadian Lyndon Rush.
To note the reversal of the crew of'' Canada 3 piloted by Justin Kripps, who was traveling on good times, but that'' s input of the curve that leads to the deck bumped against the inner side of the track being catapulted lettarlmente on the right side of the bob crawling on the ice until the finish. Fortunately, all members of the team reported no obvious physical damage being greeted by long and spontaneous applause of encouragement from the large audience present.
Who continues to disappoint is the'' blue crew brought to the race Simone Bertazzo and his brakeman Simone Fontana, Samuel Romanini and Francesco Costa, who possessed despite being an almost perfect track for fourth party in this second descent, did mark only the eighteenth run time losing a position with respect to the first run and reaching consequence in eighteenth place ex-aequo with the'' ex-brakeman English Lamin Deen. Thus ends the first day nothing short of disastrous for the Italian team after the'' doping affair of yesterday failed to bring out the'' pride,'' arguing in the most important event of the four-the two worst rounds the last two seasons.
Ranking bob to four after two rounds
1 RUS-1 Zubkov - / NEGODAYLO - / TRUNENKOV - / Russian Fed VOEV 54.82 55.37 4.79 4.77 1:50.192 MELBARDIS LAT-1 - / DREISKENS - / VILKASTE - / ST Latvia 55.10 55.13 4.77 4.75 1: 50.23 +0043 GER-1 ARNDT - / HUEBENBECKER - / ROEDIGER - / PUT Germany 54.88 55.47 4.84 4.86 1:50.35 +0,164 HOLCOMB USA-1 - / TOMASEVICZ - / LANGTON - / Fogt United States 54.89 55.47 4.75 4.79 1:50:36 +0175 Florschuetz GER-3 - / BLUHM - / Kuske - / POSER Germany 55.06 55.42 4.80 4.81 1:50.48 +0,296 RUS-2 Kasyanov - / huzîn - / BELUGIN - / PUSHKARE Russian Fed . 55.11 55.41 4.85 4.84 1:50.52 +0,337 GBR-1 JACKSON - / BENSON - / TASKER - / FEARON Great Britain 55.26 55.27 4.79 4.81 1:50.53 +0,348 HEFTI SUI-1 - / BAUMANN - / EGGER - ;/ Lamparter Switzerland 55.21 55.34 4.77 4.79 1:50.55 +0,369 GER-2 FRIEDRICH - / BAECKER - / Bermbach - / MARG Germany 55.15 55.43 4.78 4.79 1:50.58 +0.3910 CAN-2 RUSH - / BROWN - / BISSETT - / WRIGHT Canada 55.35 55.43 4.82 4.84 1:50.78 +0.5911 CUNNINGHAM USA-2 - / OLSEN - / QUINN - / ROBINSON United States 55.61 55.48 4.81 4.83 1:51.09 +0.9012 NED-1 VAN calker - / VAN DER zijde - / JANSMA Netherlands 55.55 55.57 4.83 4.81 1:51.12 +0.9313 CAN SPRING-1 - / RANDALL - / MCNAUGHTON - / Barne Canada 55.50 55.70 4.84 4.86 1:51.20 +1.0113 KIBERMANIS LAT-2 - / BROKS - / Lüsis - / LEIBOMS Latvia 55.68 55.52 4.81 4.81 1:51.20 +1.0115 ZAKHAROV RUS-3 - / Moiseev - / KHRENKOV - / Russian Fed Mokro 55.74 55.53 4.87 4.88 1:51.27 +1.0816 CZE-1 VRBA - / SUCHY - / DVORAK - / Vacek Czech Republic 55.95 55.47 4.88 4.87 1:51.42 +1.2317 COSTERG FRA-1 - / HEINRICH - / RIBET - / LEFORT France 55.82 55.68 4.94 4.94 1:51.50 +1.3118 GBR-2 DEEN - / BAINES - / MATTHEWS - / SIMONS Great Britain 55.91 55.60 4.85 4.86 1:51.51 +1.3218 BERTAZZO ITA-1 - / FONTANA - / ROMANINI - / COTE Italy 55.78 55.73 4.91 4.95 1: 51.51 +1.3220 KOR-1 WON - / SUK - / JUN - / SEO Korea 56.12 55.97 4.92 4.91 1:52.09 +1.9021 AUT-1 MAIER - / Withalm - / SAMMER - / Somov Austria 56.25 56.11 4.94 4.92 1:52:36 +2.1722 SPENCE AUS-1 - / NICHOLS - / HARVEY - / MATA Australia 56.20 56.21 4.99 4.98 1:52.41 +2.2222 NEAGU ROU-1 - / CRACIUN - / Muntean - / MOLDOVAN Romania 56.25 56.16 4.89 4.89 +2.2224 1:52:41 GODEFROY FRA-2 - / Baillard - / RICARD - / BOUTHE France 56.37 56.27 4.99 5.00 1:52.64 +2.4525 SUZUKI JPN-1 - / Kuroiwa - / SATO - / MIYAZAKI Japan 56.41 56.42 5.00 5.02 1:52.83 +2.6426 JAGNESAK SVK-1 - / NAROVEC - / KOZIENKA - / mokra Slovakia 56.56 56.37 5.00 5.00 1:52.93 +2.7427 Kupczyk POL-1 - / ZALEWSKI - / Kasperowicz - / MR Poland 56.57 56.45 4.93 4.96 1:53.02 +2.8328 BINDILATTI BRA-1 - / Pessoni - / MARTINS - / GONC Brazil 56.86 56.74 4.91 4.90 1:53.60 +3.4129 KOR KIM-2 - / KIM - / KIM - ;/ OH Korea 56.98 56.77 5.04 5.04 1:53.75 +3.5630 KRIPPS CAN-3 - / LUMSDEN - / SORENSEN - / COAKWEL Canada 55.17 59.91 4.76 4.76 1:55.08 +4.89
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