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Igls in'' eighth round of the World Cup Women's Skeleton, went to the scene'' yet another duel between Elizabeth Yarnold and Noelle Pikus-Pace. The two main protagonists of the current season, have once again made the race apart from other athletes leaving only the fight for third place on the podium.
Friday 17 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
Quest today'' s'' and the'' American English at the end of the first descent were separated by only 9 cents, the result largely of the best starting Yarnold that as often happens in this crucial consistently earns the narrow margin that many times has allowed us to stay ahead of the rival.
During the final round of the British, however, is exceeded in the wizard, ripping off an exceptional 54 "41 best reference of the day, which enabled it to further increase the advantage over Pikus-Pace and especially to get the fourth win of the season.
With this victory puts Elizabeth Yarnold in the safe the Crystal Ball as a race by the end of the season, the twenty-five of Bath has a lead of 225 points over the opponent'' s'' in the U.S. and Koenigssee last act of the maximum circuit the skeleton just collect only a point to raise to heaven the first World Cup of his career.
This separation does increase in ranking notevolemente regrets Noelle Pikus-Pace, since without the disqualification of Calgary, the U.S. would be at this time in the head of the list with fifteen lengths ahead on'' current Cup leader.
The third step of the podium went up a tie Flock Janine and Maria Orlova. L'' of Austria with this result is confirmed at the top of disliplina getting on his home track his best finish at the World Cup. The Russian on the other hand, had never risen so high in the rankings and now on a quest'' gut historically favorable to Russia, has made great protagonist in the downhill final signing an interesting third part-time which allowed her to recover three positions in the ranking.
The big test for the team of Russia was completed by the sixth and seventh Elena Nikitina Olga Potylitsina. In today's race engineers surely Russians were expecting something more from the young European champion who had finished the first half in fourth place. In the final round Nikitina, however, has made too many mistakes at this juncture losing two placings.
If Russia in Sochi optical smiles, Germany, on the other hand continues to lick their wounds. The disappointing season squadron Teutonic seems to have no end, to the point that today one quest'' German athlete, Anja Huber, has hit the top-ten. The winner of the World Cup in 2013 and the companion of Marion Thees national Greibel Sophia finished their tests only in fifteenth position once again confirming the lack of boost phase that contariamente to previous seasons is no longer offset by recoveries in large part driven .
'' The last round of the Women's Skeleton World Cup will be held in seven days in Koenigssee, Germany.
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