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'' The American Noelle Pikus-Pace won by a large margin'' s last race of the World Cup skeleton staged'' quest today Koenigssee in Bavaria.
Friday 24 January 2014 7 minutes reading time
The race today was held under a heavy snowfall that forced the organizers to declare the event at the end of the first descent. With these weather conditions in fact, the safety of the athletes and the smooth running of the event could fail, and so for the second time this season the leader of the first run was brought home success.
A triumph'' quest today was a frenzied Noelle Pikus-Pace that on a technical track like that of Koenigssee,'' for the umpteenth time showed everyone to be a true champion of the guide, finding the perfect lines in the most , hard to gut the Kreisel, and digging a furrow almost half a second on the other rivals. The thirty-Utah returned to competition only a year ago after two maternity, in this edition of the World Cup has dispustato probably his best season of his career, since only in quest'' vintage scored 4 of 10 victories in his palmares , even though lacking the conquest of the Crystal Ball because of alleged disqualification of Calgary. Perhaps this small disappointment could give you that extra boost in Sochi where the tip bluntly to the Olympic title.
Behind the U.S. has placed the'' Austrian Janine Flock authentic revelation of this season, with this result gives herself and Austria'' s the first European title of the story taking a consequence, the best finish in his career in the maximum circuit skeleton. The twenty-four has improved in view of the Tyrolean'' s eye in the boost phase, and if it were to continue with this performance over the next few years could point to win something important.
Third position for Shelley Rudman that allowed Britain to keep a clean sheet series of eight consecutive podiums of British athletes this season. The champion of the world, the greatest interpreter of the slopes techniques with this result closes in third place in the overall standings by completing the podium for the final two-thirds of the British Empire.
At the foot of the podium closed Michelle Steele unique skelettonista that still uses the system drive with both hands, which curiously gets the two best results of the season in the first and in the last race of the season''. '' The Australian'' quest today has been greatly avvantagiata by bib number 1, which has allowed her to get down with track conditions much better than the opposing games when the snowfall was much thicker. Who has not suffered the snow was the German Sophia Griebel that with the harness 22 has surprised all of them centering the fifth place ex-aequo with team-mate Anja Huber and climb on the third step of the podium in the continental event.
Germany on his home track gets the best result of the season even if these benefits are difficult to Sochi will get a medal placings.
The big disappointment of the day came from'' athlete waiting Elizabeth Yarnold.'' The head-ranking quests today, he committed several driving errors appearing in some corners of that distant relative Yarnold which until now had always closed at least to second place. This provision obviously does not affect the achievement of its first Crystal Ball's career and in particular does not exclude from the list of favorites for Olympic success.
Final Standings World Cup skeleton
Pos.AtletaNatPoints
1
Yarnold, Elizabeth
GBR
1672
2
Pikus-peace, Noelle
USA
1520
3
Rudman, Shelley
GBR
1432
4
Flock, Janine
AUT
1380
5
Huber, Anja
GER
1242
6
Thees, Marion
GER
1160
7
Gilardoni Marina
ON
1120
8
Eustace, Katharine
NZL
1056
9
Steele, Michelle
AUS
1020
10
Orlova, Mary
RUS
976
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