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In Lake Placid in the fourth round of the World Cup skeleton & nbsp; the 'American Anne O''Shea took front of his audience his first career success.
Saturday 9 January 2016 6 minutes reading time
The twenty-eight original own note resort & agrave; State of New York, quest''oggi & egrave; He has been able to capitalize on home advantage playing a second heat capital that has enabled her to move up from third to first place. The 'American athlete in particular found in the central section of the best trajectories managing to unleash great speed & agrave; out of the corners where the main enemy instead struggling to find lines & nbsp; clean.
Thanks to these precautions O''Shea & egrave; He managed to print in the decisive run for the best part of the day closing with only 5 cents ahead of Marina Gilardoni and with a margin of 25 basis points against Laura Deas. Thanks to this success the United States back on the step pi & ugrave; top of the podium after more than two years & nbsp; from their latest triumph achieved at this track from Noelle Pikus-Pace.
Anne O''Shea which until now boasted a best result of second place in La Plagne in the 2011-2012 season, also becomes the fourth American athlete ever to & nbsp; prevail in a competition of the highest circuit of the skeleton, before her we were successful only Noelle Pikus-Pace, Katie Uhlaender and Tristan Gale.
Besides all''americana other big stars of the day were undoubtedly Marina Gilardoni, Laura Deas and Tina Hermann, ie the top four in the final standings.
The Swiss never as on this occasion & egrave; He was very close to their first career success since after the record push & egrave; You could probably compete in the best phase of his career led, but unfortunately for her it quest''oggi & egrave; faced a & nbsp; Anne O''Shea in a state of grace that made fun of un''inezia.
The Welsh Deas instead & egrave; promptly redeemed by disappointing tenth of Koenigssee disputing an excellent initial descent & nbsp; for & ograve before finishing; exceeded the final O''Shea and Gilardoni. & nbsp;
Hermann on his side & egrave; the protagonist of an extraordinary comeback in the decisive heat 'led her to climb over the beauty & nbsp; 5 athletes taking from ninth to fourth place. Thanks to this important run-up the neo-German champion and winner of two of the four events played so far, strengthens its leadership in the overall earning important points against countryman Loelling (eighth), which as expected has struggled just to adapt to Unknown to her American track.
Among the happy note of today's race should be delivered the 'austrica Flock, fifth, which eventually & egrave; expressed at levels that compete and the 'Austriana Narracott, habitual star of the & nbsp; North America Cup, & nbsp; who exploited the knowledge of the gut of the state of New York to catch a good seventh place.
Try extremely disappointing for Sophia Griebel sunk in fifteenth place and Elisabeth Vathje twelfth that continues to be a distant relative of quell''atleta that only 12 months ago was able to strive for success in almost all plants in the series.
On the first of three events North Americans did not take part the Latvian Lelde Priedulena hijacked nell''Intercontinental Cup and the 'entire Russian team of the World Cup that he preferred to remain in Europe to better prepare the World Championships in Igls.
The next round of the top flight of the female skeleton will be held & agrave; seven days on the trail of Park City.
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