Nordic SkiingSalto male - Kuusamo 2014
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A Ruka, Kuusamo, or if you prefer, & egrave; staged the second race of the season of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup. As usual in the resort & agrave; Finnish wind has often changed intensity & agrave; & nbsp; or mortifying enhancing the performance of athletes, but on this occasion also the leadership race has had a hand.
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In fact in the first series after the 'excellent jump Andreas Kofler, performed in favorable conditions and valsogli the provisional leadership (in addition to the fourth position in the mid & agrave; competition), the jury took the' hasty decision to lower the pole of departure, ignoring common sense that should arise from the knowledge of the history of the resort & agrave ;.
As a result several athletes in starting list after Kofler found themselves overly penalized Since & eacute; Wind & egrave; decreased intensity of & agrave ;. The result & egrave; was to blow up at least a dozen men with a pole too low in relation to the conditions of the trampoline, thus ruining the evidence of a fifth field starters. At the expense & egrave; was in particular the 'idol Anssi Koivuranta, second in qualifying yesterday and today excluded from the points.
Fortunately the questionable decisions of the jury did not invalidate the result of the competition which saw the triumph of Simon Ammann, proved the 'man pi & ugrave; strong athlete of the day and in great form. One wonders if the thirty-three Swiss riuscir & agrave; to keep this athletic condition for at least another five weeks and try to win the coveted Vierschanzentournee.
The 'Swiss now had no rivals and & egrave; demonstrated significantly higher than the competition ahead by 8 points reviving Japanese Daiki Ito, a marked improvement compared to last week. The podium & egrave; was completed by another Japanese, Noriaki Kasai, who then today improves its record of athlete pi & ugrave; senior to finish in the top-three race of the World Cup taking it at 42 years and 175 days.
Moreover Japan was placing no two athletes on the podium in the same competition in January 2006 when the same Sapporo Ito closed second and Takanobu Okabe & Igrave since; third. Instead the 'last double podium in a race held on European soil dated back to February 2003 in Willingen, where he won with Kasai Hideharu Miyahira second.
Fourth and fifth place for the Austrians Andreas Kofler, definitely better than Klingenthal, and Michael Hayb & ouml; ck. Important confirmation for Anders Fannemel, sixth, while signs of recovery from the German Severin Freund, seventh. Step back instead of Roman Koudelka, tenth, also preceded by Lauri Asikainen Finnish and Slovenian Peter Prevc.
Among the disappointed of day again Anders Bardal, as Klingenthal, was a favorite of the eve and on the other hand has not even finished in the top ten. The Norwegian, nineteenth, pu & ograve; for & ograve; complain to have found conditions very burdensome in the first series, completed the twenty-eighth place. Again bad Gregor Schlierenzauer, twenty-fourth, cos & Igrave; as Thomas Diethart, out of thirty. One could expect certainly pi & ugrave; Also by Andreas Wellinger, fourteenth.
RUKA HS 142 - RACE I1. Simon Ammann (SUI) 284.12. ITO Daiki (JPN) 276.13. KASAI Noriaki (JPN) 270.54. KOFLER Andreas (AUT) 267.65. HAYB & Öland; CK Michael (AUT) 263.86. FANNEMEL Anders (NOR) 262.07. FREUND Severin (GER) 261.18. Lauri Asikainen (FIN) 254.99. PREVC Peter (SLO) 254 510. KOUDELKA Roman (CZE) 253.2
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