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Martins Dukurs back to success in the World Cup and does so with great ruler. The strongest skelettonista of all time today in Winterberg showed everyone that he promptly rescued by the two setbacks in the past seasonal appointments accused seizing the twenty-seventh success of his incredible career.
Friday 3 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
On the track that saw him dominate the last four seasons, the champion of Latvia has just destroyed the competition, trimming in the first round detachments of other times to major rivals. Dukurs except for the start, the race has always been a head drawing perfect lines and impossible to emulate by other competitors scoring in both runs in program references the best lap times of the day.
Behind the phenomenon of Riga trailing by as much as one second and nineteen cents, he finished his elder brother who gave Latvia Tomass the first double of the season.
The podium was completed by Alexander Tretyakov Temponi that despite the two being thrust has never failed to trouble Martins Dukurs. The Russian is in the final round, however, was able to gain a position with respect to the first run, centering the fourth podium of the season and consolidating its leadership in the overall standings.
In fourth place went to the American Matthew Antoine, which confirms the enormous progress made in the start of this season. The winner of the show Lake Placid has been very good to make up ground in the stretch Guided implant German scoring the second best split times and very competitive athletes stepping over him in the starting phase.
The top five was completed by John Daly. The excellent performance of the U.S. fifth just 10 cents from the podium, confirms the great work done by the American Federation during the summer that involved athletes, coaches and research organizations to better develop the new skeleton key in the Olympic .
To win the coveted little palm of the great disappointment of the day was the German team. In front of their home crowd German athletes have played one of the worst races of the season. Only two athletes home, Frank Rommel and Alexander kroeckel have in fact concluded within the top ten among accusing chipping rather high compared to the first three in the final standings.
Race negative for Italy. The Italian-American Joseph Cecchini to debut in European competition's maximum circuit skeleton finished in twenty-first position by clocking interesting departure times but losing a lot in the wizard. Cecchini protagonist of the North American Cup in his only exit in the World Cup has, however, achieved the best results of the Italian team in the top division of the skeleton and at the time deserves more than any other Olympic participation. The other way to Italian Mattia Gaspari has completed its test in twenty-sixth place. It goes without saying that both Italians in the race did not qualify for the second run.
The next round of the World Cup skeleton is scheduled for next weekend on the famous Olympia Bob Run in St. Moritz.
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