BobsleighBob - Sochi
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Predictions met in the first round of the Olympic four-man bob. At the command c'' is the number one favorite for the win Alexander Zubkov, leading with just 6 cents on the German Arndt and 7 on the'' American Holcomb.
Saturday 22 February 2014 9 minutes reading time
Zubkov winner a few days ago the test of two-man bobsleigh, has made a difference in the central section, where once again he pulled the perfect lines that have allowed him to take advantage over other opponents, who have gone contrary to the usual stronger than him in the end. The Russian Quest'' today has not touched the tips of higher speeds, particularly that this has allowed the world champion Maximilian Arndt to recover a lot of ground and to place themselves in just 6 hundredths of a delay from the peak.
If Arndt went strong at the end, instead Holcomb was a missile in the boost phase, where with the support of the brakemen Tomasevicz, Langton and Fogt has set a new record for the start of the Olympics Sanki Sliding Center. The defending Olympic title aboard his Night Train Two, it was not spotless but in the remaining two thirds of the race, even though the advantage gained at the beginning of the track allowed him to just 7 cents to close at Zubkov.
The first three crews seem to have an edge over the rest of the group, although in a context such as the Olympic, where the pressure and plays tricks with three rounds still to be played are not completely cut off the other 8 trackers are enclosed in a piece of just 53 cents from the leader of the race.
Of this large group is the best-placed German veteran Thomas Florschuetz quarter to 24 cents from Zubkov, followed by Oskars Melbardis and Alexander Kasyanov who have delays of less than 3 tenths off the leader, while Friedrich, Kripps and Hefti has settled respectively the seventh, eighth and ninth place with less than 40 cents from the peak. The match for the podium are still the'' English John James Jackson surprising since mid-track and then the Canadian Lyndon Rush eleventh.
Disappointing first race for Simone Bertazzo, which to be honest is not a great specialist in the four-man bob, but from what we expected at least a better outcome'' s current seventeenth place. The blue team probably shaken by disqualification for doping brakeman William Frullani, as well as reveal the usual difficulties in start-up phase has not been flawless even in part driven by accusing immediately next to the second detachment that places even the Italian'' shoulders'' s crew of the Netherlands 1. Bertazzo that has a lead of just 36 cents from Korean Won will not make further mistakes in the next drop-down, or else it will come out even by the first winds that would be a real disaster, given that tomorrow would be starting with a track tutt '' other than perfect.
The second race is scheduled at 19.00 Italian.
Standings after the first run
1 RUS-1 Zubkov - / NEGODAYLO - / TRUNENKOV - / Russian Fed VOEV 54.82 4.79 54 822 GER-1 ARNDT - / HUEBENBECKER - / ROEDIGER - / PUT Germany 54.88 4.84 54.88 +0063 USA-1 HOLCOMB - TOMASEVICZ ;/ - / LANGTON - / Fogt United States 54.89 4.75 54.89 +0074 Florschuetz GER-3 - / BLUHM - / Kuske - / POSER Germany 55.06 4.80 55.06 +0245 MELBARDIS LAT-1 - / DREISKENS - / VILKASTE - / ST 55.10 4.77 55.10 Latvia +0286 RUS-2 Kasyanov - / huzîn - / BELUGIN - / Russian Fed PUSHKARE 55.11 4.85 55.11 +0297 GER-2 FRIEDRICH - / BAECKER - / Bermbach - / MARG Germany 55.15 4.78 55.15 +0338 KRIPPS CAN-3 - / LUMSDEN - / SORENSEN - / COAKWEL Canada 55.17 4.76 55.17 +0359 HEFTI SUI-1 - / BAUMANN - / EGGER - / Lamparter Switzerland 55.21 4.77 55.21 GBR-1 +0.3910 JACKSON - / BENSON - / TASKER - / FEARON Great Britain 55.26 4.79 55.26 +0.4411 CAN-2 RUSH - / BROWN - / BISSETT - / WRIGHT Canada 55.35 4.82 55.35 +0.5312 CAN-1 SPRING - / RANDALL - / MCNAUGHTON - / Barne Canada 55.50 4.84 55.50 +0.6813 NED-1 VAN calker - / VAN DER zijde - / JANSMA Netherlands 55.55 4.83 55.55 +0.7314 CUNNINGHAM USA-2 - / OLSEN - / QUINN - / ROBINSON United States 55.61 4.81 55.61 +0.7915 KIBERMANIS LAT-2 - / BROKS - / Lüsis - / LEIBOMS Latvia 55.68 4.81 55.68 +0.8616 ZAKHAROV RUS-3 - / Moiseev - / KHRENKOV - / Mokro Russian Fed 55.74 4.87 55.74 +0.9217 BERTAZZO ITA-1 - / FONTANA - / ROMANINI - / COTE Italy 55.78 4.91 55.78 +0.9618 COSTERG FRA-1 - / HEINRICH - / RIBET - / LEFORT France 55.82 4.94 55.82 +1.0019 GBR-2 DEEN - / BAINES - / MATTHEWS - / SIMONS Great Britain 55.91 4.85 55.91 +1.0920 VRBA CZE-1 - / SUCHY - / DVORAK - / Vacek Czech Republic 55.95 4.88 55.95 +1.1321 KOR -1 WON - / SUK - / JUN - / SEO Korea 56.12 4.92 56.12 +1.3022 SPENCE AUS-1 - / NICHOLS - / HARVEY - / MATA Australia 56.20 4.99 56.20 +1.3823 AUT-1 MAIER - / Withalm - / SAMMER - / Austria Somov 56.25 4.94 56.25 +1.4323 NEAGU ROU-1 - / CRACIUN - / Muntean - / MOLDOVAN Romania 56.25 4.89 56.25 +1.4325 GODEFROY FRA-2 - / Baillard - / RICARD - ;/ BOUTHE France 56.37 4.99 56.37 +1.5526 SUZUKI JPN-1 - / Kuroiwa - / SATO - / MIYAZAKI Japan 56.41 56.41 +1.5927 5:00 JAGNESAK SVK-1 - / NAROVEC - / KOZIENKA - / mokra 56.56 Slovakia 5:00 56.56 +1.7428 Kupczyk POL-1 - / ZALEWSKI - / Kasperowicz - / MR Poland 56.57 4.93 56.57 +1.7529 BINDILATTI BRA-1 - / Pessoni - / MARTINS - / GONC Brazil 56.86 4.91 56.86 +2.0430 KOR-2 KIM - / KIM - / KIM - / OH Korea 5:04 56.98 56.98 +2.16
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