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By early afternoon in Tesero went on stage the bottom segment of the pairs competition in Val di Fiemme. The competition has to smile blue colors because the couple formed by Samuel Costa and Alessandro Pittin won the third place.
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The winner was Norway's Espen Andersen and Joergen Graabak. After closing the gap to the lead, the Scandinavians have conducted a wait-race, saving energy. The competition was then resolved in the finale, when four teams have come to fight for the victory in the sprint. To win was the athlete of Trondheim, top of the class in this type of situation.
place of honor for outstanding Czech Republic I, composed by Tomas Portyk and Miroslav Dvorak. The Czechs have always remained in the leading group and in the final Dvorak has found an excellent sprint, going almost to trouble the last fractionist Norwegian.
It is the latter two have been involved in an incident that could affect the race. In their penultimate stage, the curve before the change, have had contact where norge has had the worst ending to the ground. But getting up right away has not lost ground, so there are no consequences.
Third place for its excellent Italian, with Pittin author of a remarkable comeback in the early fractions. Friulian has therefore spent a lot and in the end nothing has been against the fresh Graabak and Dvorak. Costa also behaved very well, and better manage their return and resulting determinant with the excellent jump of the morning. This result definitely brings optimism among blue and highlights the good work done by the team.
A bit 'of disappointment for the 4th of Finland I, composed of Eero Hirvonen and Ilkka Herola. The latter was the first to raise the white flag in the final sprint, and do not go up on a podium that seemed within reach.
We witnessed the first race not won the Teutonic, who have not even picked up a placement on the podium. The two German teams were placed respectively 5 th and 6 th. For Germany II Terence Weber has held up the pace of the leading group for the first few laps, but in his last lost contact taking over from Fabian Rießle with a delay of 9 ''. The latter managed to hang my head in the last lap, but spending a lot of energy and coming back off a little later.
Germany I (Manuel Faißt - Jakob Lange) has enjoyed a great comeback along with Austria's 7th (Bernhard Flaschberger - Paul Gerstgraser) and the US The 8 ^ (Bryan and Taylor Fletcher), relying on the good qualities of skiing close.
The second Italian team, formed by Manuel Maierhofer and Lukas Runggaldier, finished in 15th place, ahead of the dubbed Czech Republic II.
They did not take off this afternoon Austria II (David Pommer - Wilhelm Denifl), despite good 5th starting position.
Next meeting scheduled for tomorrow, when it will stage an individual competition in the Trentino valley.
VAL DI FIEMME - TEAM SPRINT1. NORWAY The [Andersen, Graabak] 35'02''42. CZECH REPUBLIC The [Portyk, Dvorak] to 0''33. ITALY The [Costa, Pittin] to 0''94. FINLAND [Hirvonen, Herola] to 2''75. GERMANY II [Weber, Rießle] in 11'66. GERMANY I [Faißt, Lange] to 33''9
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Costa and Pittin third in the team sprint in Val di Fiemme! Vince Norway Andersen and Graabak
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Germany's head after the jump in the team sprint in Val di Fiemme
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