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Not even a heavy snowfall prevented Martins Dukurs to continue to dominate the scene of the Skeleton World Cup. The superstar baltic quest''oggi in La Plagne in the sixth round of the calendar, has centered on the fifth victory of the season graduating European champion for the sixth consecutive time.
Friday 30 January 2015 5 minutes reading time
Despite the competition will be held today on un''unica heats because of bad ice conditions, Dukurs & egrave; been able to do literally vacuum trimming detachments heavy to everyone. The thirty year old native of Riga but based in Sigulda has indeed drawn the perfect lines in the difficult middle section, where he first recovered the 13 cents charged late departing, and then gradually began to gain ground gradually closing out their test with new track record, outdistancing Tretiakov of 4/10.
With this latest show of strength Dukurs share rises to 36 successes in the World Cup winning also the sixth consecutive European title, but mostly gets closer and more & ugrave; to & nbsp; sixth Crystal Ball of his incredible career.
Behind the pi & ugrave; great skeletonista of all time & egrave; Now is the Olympic champion Alexander Tretiakov. Russian as usual & egrave; was superb in the boost phase where for a change in the printed record of starting, but then in the pi & ugrave; Technical gut Frenchman & egrave; was impeccable and only thanks to a grand finale & egrave; managed to save the place of 'honor. & nbsp;
The podium & egrave; was completed by the elder brothers Dukurs, Tomass that with this good performance can return set within the top three after two races strengthening cos & Igrave; its second position & nbsp; in the overall standings. Dukurs that in fact got the twentieth career podium preceded only 11 cents a positive Christopher Grotheer author of a splendid final part that allowed him to match the fourth place in Calgary on best result of the season.
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Another great performance for the 'rising star skeleton World Nikita Tregybov that for the fourth time in four races get a placement set within the top five. The nineteen year old Russian despite the young age & agrave; continues to impress for his consistent performance in what for him & egrave; the first full season in the maximum circuit skeleton. Tregybov without the obvious mistakes in the final part would quest''oggi could get very close to the second career podium after a brilliant third place a week ago in Sankt Moritz. & Nbsp; Good performance for the third Russian in compete Sergei Chudinov that for the first time this season gave the 'impression of being ready to return to the podium in a review of the World Cup, an event that is missing from Winterberg 2011.
Continues the 'excellent time to Mattia Gaspari that for the third time in the last four races concluded between the top fifteen. The 'blue despite continuing to lose ground in the boost phase turned in a good performance especially in the stretch pi & ugrave; difficult to track French closing in fifteenth position a few cents from thirteenth place of Dave & nbsp; Greszczyszyn. A result that confirms the excellent progress shown by Mattia this season that bode well for future perspective.
The next round of the Skeleton World Cup & egrave; scheduled in seven days on the track at Igls in Austria.
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