SkeletonSkeleton - Lake Placid
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Historic day in Lake Placid, the third round of the World Cup skeleton. After two years of staying fixed on the podium the champion Latvian Martins Dukurs comes from the first three positions by closing'' s eighth place in the race that has given great satisfaction to the first'' American Matthew Antoine.
Monday 16 December 2013 4 minutes reading time
The twenty-eight statunitese took full advantage of the knowledge of the gut of the house, first closing the first run to the second and then scoring an extraordinary time in the second run that allowed him to complete the race with more than six tenths ahead of Tretyakov.
Antoine third a week ago in Park City closes so the first part of a dream season though as early as January in the early European races your positive trend may stop.
In place of'' honor Alexander Tretyakov was placed for the third consecutive race on the podium or better has never gone beyond the second place. The world champion St. Mortiz with this result earns major points in key Crystal Ball against Martins Dukurs.
The third step of the podium was occupied by the elder Dukurs, Tomass. The Latvian'' quest today was finally the author of a constant race and by the third time in the final run in the heats ripped managed to get the first podium of the season.
Fourth place went to a disappointed John Daly brilliant second at the end of the first round but equally foul in the second drop-down list that made him fade before the top three of his career. Behind closed'' s American Frank Rommel as often happens paid an overcooked hard at the start but he showed all his class led in the stretch of the track of the state of New York.
As mentioned previously, the big loser of Lake Placid is the phenomenon Martins Dukurs. The master of the last four seasons, during the day today was unrecognizable closing'' s only eighth place at more than one second behind the winner. It was January 14, 2012 skelettonista the strongest of all time did not come down from the podium. Dukurs was also preceded by John Fairbairn and Kyle Tress that allowed the "States" by placing three athletes in the top seven overall.
Italy'' s in this event lined up for the first time this season two athletes: the Italo-Canadian rookie Joseph Cecchini and Maurizio Oioli. Cecchini protagonist in North-American Cup and Italian champion has clearly won the challenge with the athlete'' Domodossola hitting a decent sixteenth place. Oioli instead continued on the same level of the three previous races seizing the twenty-first position and not again qualify for the second run.
Now the World Cup skeleton takes a break. The next meeting will be held in early January on the German track in Winterberg.
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