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Fourth race of the season and fourth straight win for Martins Dukurs. The superstar also Baltic quest''oggi in Lake Placid in the first of three stages North American has again imposed its own law winning hands down the & nbsp; forty career success.
Saturday 9 January 2016 6 minutes reading time
The thirty-one of Riga as often happens signed in both planned descents best chronometric partial closing with nearly & nbsp; half a second ahead of the first beat. Dukurs especially in the second heat & egrave; It was encyclopedic nell''affrontare the difficult stretch of the track led the state of New York, giving off great speed & agrave; out of corners where most of the opponents were forced to slow down.
With this latest showdown and virt & ugrave; dell''assenza rival Tretiakov remained in Europe to better prepare the World Championships in Igls, the pi & ugrave; skeletonista great history after only four appointments already has & agrave; put a serious threat to the achievement of the seventh consecutive Crystal Ball.
Behind the winner trailing by 48 cents you & egrave; placed a Sungbin Yun in excellent shape. The Korean like the fellow bobbisti ran with the picture imprinted on the helmet of the late & nbsp; Malcolm Lloyd, impressed once again for his skills as a starting that on this occasion allowed him to break the record of pushing dell''impianto Lake Placid. & nbsp;
The podium & egrave; was completed by the elder brothers Dukurs, Tomass, finally at the fourth attempt & nbsp; centers the first podium of the season. The thirty-four Baltic & nbsp; & egrave; was the 'last of the twenty-six athletes at the start to contain the delay by the winner under the wall of the second, to yet another demonstration of how much difference there & egrave; between Martins Dukurs and the rest of the group. & nbsp;
In fourth and fifth place were placed, respectively Axel Jungk moved up from seventh place, and the 'American Antoine home track & egrave; He managed to return to express themselves on the levels of two years ago. & nbsp;
House Italy continues the "Magic Moment" Mattia Gaspari that to debut on the difficult track in Lake Placid has surprised everyone with a surprising what deserved eighth place. And to think that the race of the twenty-two Cortina d''Ampezzo & nbsp; began with a small shudder, when the first starting his sleigh was output from driving dangerously swerve causing considerably. Mattia & ograve; She had no panic managing to close the opening downhill in an honorable & nbsp; the tenth position.
In the decisive run-bearer of the Bob Club Cortina he invented probably his best race of life down 8 cents of time pushing and brushing as a veteran consumed the remaining parts of the track, signing an incredible fifth part-time.
With this tempone Gaspari nell''ordine spanned the 'Guggenberger Austrian and German Zachrau, winning a historic & nbsp; & nbsp eighth, becoming the best result ever for an Italian athlete since there is a World Cup skeleton. This splendid performance once again confirms the great potential dell''atleta Venetian that if it were supported properly all''Italia could give more satisfaction.
Race negative instead for the 'other blue at the start, Joseph Cecchini, who on a track he knows very well ended only twenty-second place, did not qualify for the second run.
The next round of the World Cup skeleton & egrave; scheduled in seven days on the track at Park City.
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