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Fourth and fifth race win for Martins Dukurs that continues to dominate the scenes of the Skeleton World Cup. The superstar also baltic quest''oggi in Sankt Moritz in the fifth round of the season has imposed its law tearing in both races in the program the best references chronometric.
Friday 23 January 2015 8 minutes reading time
Dukurs as so often laid the foundations for today's success during the final descent, where he designed practically perfect trajectories that enabled him to achieve in the long final stretch tips speed & agrave; unreachable for the rest of the company.
Latvian & egrave; cos & Igrave; forcefully returned to success, winning the fourth victory of the season, but especially & egrave; managed to get his thirty-fifth victory in the World Cup, a goal that in the disciplines of men's gut & egrave; been achieved in the past only by Armin Zoeggeler.
Behind the Baltic trailing by 60 cents, you & egrave; placed an increasingly & ugrave; convincing Sungbin Yun, that on a technical track like 'Olympia Bob Run in St. Moritz & egrave; was able to conquer his best result of his career. The young South Korean (class of 1994) to the first full season in the major circuit of the skeleton, is confirming the good show in Europe in the first two appointments Americans, where he had given to South Korea's first podium of the story.
Extraordinary result for the 'other rising star skeleton World Nikita Tregybov, that the historical gut Swiss won his first career podium. The nineteen Krasnoyarsk who had impressed in the first races of the series Intercontinental Cup, is confirming its big even more & ugrave; difficult circuit World Cup proving extremely fast descents in the individual but at the same time incredibly steady in the top positions of the ranking, a quality & agrave; quest''ultima important that could allow the Russian to fight for the Crystal Ball in the coming seasons.
Completed the top-five the 'English Dominic Parsons fourth, the best race of the last twelve months and the largest of the brothers Tomass Dukurs that for the second consecutive time this season finishes off the podium. The thirty-three of Sigulda has to complain to an unconvincing first descent characterized by some smearing too in the beginning that the 'relegated to sixth. In the next heat Dukurs has signed the third part-time but the gap accumulated previously was allowing it to recover only a placing.
Race to forget in a hurry to Alexander Tretyakov winner a week ago in Koenigssee. Olympic champion two years ago on this track he won his first world title ended only in tenth place undergoing a gap of more than two seconds behind the winner. The thirty year old Russian beyond the two departures not record & egrave; was flawless in the stretch driven revealing too obvious problems in getting the final out of the corners fast acceleration peaks well below the average that prevented him from earning positions. Performance undertone for Matthew Antoine and Killian Von Schleinitz who finished respectively all''undicesimo and twelfth.
Third race in the World Cup and third points finish for Mattia Gaspari, that without the 'mistake made during the second run out of the famous Horse Shoe Curve could confirm the seventeenth place of the first descent. The young Italian champion finished in nineteenth position, proving even quest''oggi to have excellent ability & agrave; driving if that will be accompanied by a good push could bring in the coming years to get closer and more & ugrave; the top ten.
Gaspari reached by Neveitalia.it has cos & Igrave; commented his race, "I could not find the right feeling with this track, the premise that & eacute; different from the other tracks of the series, being in natural ice. Unfortunately in the second run I made a mistake the 'exit at the Horse Shoe and I have lost all speed & agrave; for the final stretch of sliding. " The 'blue also confessed that he was positively surprised by these first three races of the World Cup and to be ready to face the next engagement in the program in seven days in La Plagne, "I am very surprised by the improvements made in relation to' ' Last year, because & egrave; however, in the World Cup if not push strong will never be able to get forward, removing some exceptions. Now we look at the next event in La Plagne where I raced only once but for & ograve; & egrave; one of my tracks favorite with various curves where you feel much pressure. "
Tutt''altro of humor John Mulassano according to the Italian way, that quest''oggi played probably the worst race dell''intera season closing in twenty-ninth position. The driver of the sports group Blue Flames committed several mistakes since dall''avvio not finding then speed & agrave; in the pi & ugrave; technique. A quid pro quo that has pushed the 'blue in agreement with sporting director Rezzadore to skip the next two races on the calendar, "I made a half decent season, now I threw it all away. I do not know pi & ugrave; what about ..." This is the laconic Comment dell''atleta Piedmont after the competition.
The next round of the Skeleton World Cup & egrave; scheduled in seven days in La Plagne in France.
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