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The first of the two races of Summer Grand Prix scheduled to Hakuba, Japan, was held with the weather changing very complicated because the wind was accompanied by heavy rain.
Friday 23 August 2013 4 minutes reading time
As usual for the competitions held in the land of the Rising Sun, there have been many defections among top athletes. Suffice it to say that only five of the top twenty of the general classification of the GP were present in the starting pole.
In any case, Poland has made party while leaving the rest to their big guns. It is imposed Krzysztof Biegun, author of a spectacular comeback in the second set. The nineteen year old Szczyrk was in eighth place after the first half, but thanks to a lead from the top rather exceptional content and a second jump was able to win the first victory of his career in the maximum circuit with a narrow margin of Simon Ammann.
'' The Swiss has had to bow to the youngest competitor by half a point, the same advantage with which he took the place of honor'' against the Czech Cestmir Kozisek, third and first podium of his career. It should be remarked how Biegun and Kozisek, although unfamiliar to top positions, they proved to be in good shape in the previous releases in the GP.
Disappointed to day two Poles, Jan Rib and especially Aleksander Zniszczol, and first and second at the end of the first series. Rib is not able to confirm on the podium and finished fourth with three points from Kozisek, while Zniszczol has even sunk in ninth place.
I'm definitely not happy with the Japanese hosts since no Japanese on the podium. We are still in the top positions proposed the'' eternal Noriaki Kasai, fifth, and Reruhi Shimizu, sixth.
About steels. Japan because of the possibility of deploying 12 athletes thanks to the national group, has sent in pole starting two top athletes over the years'' 90, Takanobu Okabe and Kazuyoshi Funaki. The first was able to get into the points to 28th.
In the overall standings of the Grand Prix of the top five positions remain unchanged. Wellinger commands with 340 points followed by Stoch (227), Kot (212), Freitag (197) and Neumayer (172). Biegun and Ammann, with 158 and 156 points, you are taken to the sixth and seventh place.
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