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Alexander Zubkov dominates the third round of the four-man bob and starts toward winning the gold medal''. The Russian leader of the standings, in this first run today was just fantastic performing a great time to push and then brushed to perfection has all the curves that make up the Olympic Sliding Center Sanki.
Sunday 23 February 2014 11 minutes reading time
The flagship of Russia was also much faster compared to yesterday in the final stretch, probably benefited from the different atmospheric conditions of the track. It should not be forgotten fact that in the first day of competition was taking place in the late evening while'' quest today the third round was played in the middle of the morning, especially last quest'' that greatly affects level of performance of the materials.
Beyond the technical factor, Zubkov in this descent was definitely the best, doing only in this round a huge selection, cutting out of the fight for the'' gold comincare its main rivals in the Olympic title holder Steven Holcomb and passing by the world champion Maximilian Arndt.
'' The only athlete who could still give you a hard time in nearly forty pilot house, is the author of a Melbardis Latvia Oskars'' other evidence fantastic. The Baltic was confirmed in second place overall by limiting the gap between himself and the leader in the first part of the track, but then how often it has lost ground in the most technical stretch, closing with a gap of 17 cents from the peak. Melbardis on the paper can still have their say on the medal from the most precious metal but realistically speaking it is difficult to imagine a resounding'' debacle in the final round by an experienced athlete as Zubkov. The Latvian, however, can be fully satisfied with his performance since this time has a rather important advantage over fourth-ranked and the first medal of Latvia in the world of bob does not seem to be a simple dream now.
In third position is moved up the'' American Holcomb author of a good first half of the race, but unable in the central portion of gamble on a par with Zubkov and Melbardis, losing 28 cents more this fall, bringing the delay in the standings to 45 cents calling from the summit and therefore out of contention for the gold medal''.
The Olympic champion in Vancouver now will have to try at least to preserve the place on the podium as he has a lead of just 15 cents on rimontante Alexander Kasyanov good to snatch the third part-time and able to recover at a stroke two placings. The Russian precedes a single penny a disappointing Maximilian Arndt in this descent has committed several smears probably due to a wrong choice of the set up of materials that'' made them drop from third to fifth place also making him lose all hope for riagguantare Zubkov at the top. Arndt will have to try to make up in the next and decisive descent as if no medal, Germany for the first time after 46 years would rise on the Olympic podium in the four-man bob.
Another great performance for the'' English John James Jackson, who is still in the running for a historic Olympic medal. The Briton was sublime in the central tapping good lap times and in some places has been able to compete on the same references chronometric the leader of the race finishing in sixth place just 18 cents from bronze.
Who leaves the dreams of glory at the end of this run, the Germans Florschuetz and Friedrich obviously penalized materials not all'' height,'' Swiss Hefti and the Canadian Rush who complete all four of the top ten.
Another negative test for Simone Bertazzo that continues to sail at the bottom of the standings. The'' blue once again failed to convince them to boost level let alone at the level of printing driving again heats confirming the eighteenth time in eighteenth place ex-aequo with the'' English Lamin Deen.
12.00 Italian will start the fourth and decisive round.
Ranking bob to four after the third round
1 RUS-1 Zubkov - / NEGODAYLO - / TRUNENKOV - / Russian Fed VOEV 54.82 55.37 55.02 4.79 4.77 4.78 2:45.212 MELBARDIS LAT-1 - / DREISKENS - / VILKASTE - / ST Latvia 55.10 55.13 55.15 4.77 4.75 4.79 2:45:38 +0173 HOLCOMB USA-1 - / TOMASEVICZ - / LANGTON - / Fogt United States 54.89 55.47 55.30 4.75 4.79 4.78 2:45.66 +0,454 RUS-2 Kasyanov - / huzîn - / BELUGIN - / PUSHKARE Russian Fed 55.11 55.41 55.29 4.85 4.84 4.83 2:45.81 +0,605 GER-1 ARNDT - / HUEBENBECKER - / ROEDIGER - / PUT Germany 54.88 55.47 55.47 4.84 4.86 4.87 2:45.82 +0,616 GBR-1 JACKSON - / BENSON - / TASKER - / FEARON Great Britain 55.26 55.27 55.31 4.79 4.81 4.80 2:45.84 +0,637 Florschuetz GER-3 - / BLUHM - / Kuske - / POSER Germany 55.06 55.42 55.50 4.80 4.81 4.82 2:45.98 + HEFTI 0778 SUI-1 - / BAUMANN - / EGGER - / Lamparter Switzerland 55.21 55.34 55.60 4.77 4.79 4.79 2:46.15 +0,949 CAN-2 RUSH - / BROWN - / BISSETT - / WRIGHT Canada 55.35 55.43 55.60 4.82 4.84 4.86 +1.1710 2:46:38 GER-2 FRIEDRICH - / BAECKER - / Bermbach - / MARG Germany 55.15 55.43 55.81 4.78 4.79 4.84 2:46.39 +1.1811 NED-1 VAN calker - / VAN DER zijde - / JANSMA Netherlands 55.55 55.57 55.82 4.83 4.81 4.86 2:46.94 +1.7312 CUNNINGHAM USA-2 - / OLSEN - / QUINN - / ROBINSON United States 55.61 55.48 55.97 4.81 4.83 4.85 2:47.06 +1.8513 CAN SPRING-1 - / RANDALL - MCNAUGHTON ;/ - / Barne Canada 55.50 55.70 55.88 4.84 4.86 4.89 2:47.08 +1.8714 ZAKHAROV RUS-3 - / Moiseev - / KHRENKOV - / Russian Fed Mokro 55.74 55.53 55.88 4.87 4.88 4.91 2:47.15 +1.9415 LAT KIBERMANIS -2 - / BROKS - / Lüsis - / LEIBOMS Latvia 55.68 55.52 55.97 4.81 4.81 4.84 2:47.17 +1.9616 VRBA CZE-1 - / SUCHY - / DVORAK - / Vacek Czech Republic 55.95 55.47 55.95 4.88 4.87 4.91 +2.1617 2:47:37 COSTERG FRA-1 - / HEINRICH - / RIBET - / LEFORT France 55.82 55.68 55.91 4.94 4.94 4.96 2:47.41 +2.2018 GBR-2 DEEN - / BAINES - / MATTHEWS - / SIMONS Great Britain 55.91 55.60 56.06 4.85 4.86 4.89 2:47.57 +2.3618 BERTAZZO ITA-1 - / FONTANA - / ROMANINI - / COTE Italy 55.78 55.73 56.06 4.91 4.95 4.95 2:47.57 +2.3620 KOR-1 WON - / SUK - ;/ JUN - / SEO Korea 56.12 55.97 56.25 4.92 4.91 4.92 2:48.34 +3.1321 AUT-1 MAIER - / Withalm - / Heufler - / Somov Austria 56.25 56.11 56.27 4.94 4.92 5.05 2:48.63 +3.4222 AUS-1 SPENCE - / NICHOLS - / HARVEY - / MATA Australia 56.20 56.21 56.23 4.99 4.98 4.97 2:48.64 +3.4323 GODEFROY FRA-2 - / Baillard - / RICARD - / BOUTHE France 56.37 56.27 56.35 4.99 5.00 5.05 2: 48.99 +3.7824 NEAGU ROU-1 - / OTAVA - / Muntean - / CRACIUN Romania 56.25 56.16 56.62 4.89 4.89 4.93 2:49.03 +3.8225 JAGNESAK SVK-1 - / NAROVEC - / KOZIENKA - / mokra Slovakia 56.56 56.37 56.51 5.00 5.00 5.02 2:49.44 +4.2326 SUZUKI JPN-1 - / Kuroiwa - / SATO - / MIYAZAKI Japan 56.41 56.42 56.63 5.00 5.02 5.03 2:49.46 +4.2527 Kupczyk POL-1 - / ZALEWSKI - / Kasperowicz - ;/ MR Poland 56.57 56.45 56.47 4.93 4.96 4.95 2:49.49 +4.2828 KOR KIM-2 - / KIM - / KIM - / OH Korea 56.98 56.77 56.89 5.04 5.04 5.04 2:50.64 +5.4329 BINDILATTI BRA-1 - / Pessoni - / MARTINS - / GONC Brazil 56.86 56.74 57.11 4.91 4.90 4.88 2:50.71 +5.5030 KRIPPS CAN-3 - / LUMSDEN - / Demetre - / RINHOLM Canada 55.17 59.91 55.72 4.76 4.76 4.83 2:50.80 +5.59
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