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It took four selection races to decide the American rooster in sight dell''imminente start to the season. The Federation US (United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation) has indeed prepared a full schedule of trails to better evaluate their athletes.
Monday 10 November 2014 5 minutes reading time
The first two races were sailed in the gut of Lake Placid, while the remaining two have been staged last weekend in Park City, Utah.
In the field of male & egrave; witnessed a monologue by Matthew Antoine has monopolized the step pi & ugrave; top of the podium in all four races scheduled. The bronze medal of the recent Olympic Games in Sochi, despite being down & agrave; qualified right for next season's World Cup will not & egrave; spared, taking the lead heavy to their teammates. In the single track in Lake Placid, the same as last year gave him his first triumph in the maximum circuit skeleton, Antoine pulled off Kyle Tress, first beaten, and three tenths of a second in the first race, while in the next has trimmed the beauty of a second and sixty-seven cents. A few days more & ugrave; Later in Park City the music & egrave; changed, with only one heat Tress able to beat the rival.
If the first two positions are never changed during the four events, things went differently with regard to the third place. On the first step ugrave & more; of the podium in fact, & egrave; increased to twice the twenty-six Allen Blackwell and for once have ruled Kyle Brown and Stephen Garbett. Quest''ultimo born in 1985, & egrave; won the third & egrave; last available place in the US team's World Cup, but will have to attend & agrave; before take off at least 5 races in 3 different tracks of the circuit of North-American Cup. The other two spots were previously assigned to Antoine and Tress.
In the women's retreat in absentia Noelle Pikus-Pace and in the absence of Katie Uhlaender forced to skip the 'entire season for the recurrence of an old ankle injury, the main protagonist of the trails & egrave; was Savannah Graybill. The twenty-six of Colorado, which until a few years ago he trained to become a brakeman Elana Meyers, you & egrave; sets in three of the four races on the program earning a pass to the 'entire season of the World Cup. Graybill in the maximum circuit skeleton to & agrave; couple with Annie O''Shea athlete who until now had had a hard life, since it is often found itself excluded from major competitions to leave the field open to the phenomenal duo Pikus-Uhlaender.
In the course of the two races at Park City & egrave; highlighted the twenty-four Kendall Wesenberg, decent athlete from the past in the world of football, which for this season & egrave; engaged full-time in the world of skeleton and the two legs of Colorado scored a surprising victory and a second place. These results for & ograve; were not enough to Wesenberg to be included in the rooster of the Intercontinental Cup, but if the 'athlete were to continue at this rate soon could peep into the channels of the skeleton that matter.
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Men's Team World Cup
Matthew Antoine (1985), Kyle Tress (1981) and Stephen Garbett (1985)
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Team Women's World Cup
Savannah Graybill (1988) and Annie O''Shea (1987)
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Male Intercontinental Cup Team
Allen Blackwell (1988), Alex Ivanov (1987) and Greg West (1985)
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Female Team Intercontinental Cup
Veronica Day (1989) Kellie Delka (1987) and Megan Henry (1987)
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