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Sixth victory of the season for the champion Latvian Martins Dukurs'' in the eighth round of the World Cup skeleton staged'' quest today to Igls in Austria.
Saturday 18 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The strongest of all time skelettonista contrary to the usual, has struggled more than expected to get the better of the historic rival Alexander Tretyakov. The Russian winner of the show in Park City, benefited from the lack of runway length Tyrolean to assert his great qualities that have allowed him to departing in the first drop-down list to contain the delay in just 4 cents from the winner.
In the final round, however, has centered Dukurs a better start limiting the damage at the top as usual and making a difference in the section headed, crossing the line with a margin of 25 cents on the opponent and putting a serious threat to the fifth victory of his Cup consecutive World.
The phenomenon of Riga increased to 29 wins in the top of the skeleton and if next weekend in Koenigssee should triumph again to bring home the second check for 100 thousand Euros as a reward for having won the Triple Trophy, trophy that is up to the person who won all three classical tests of the circuit of the World Cup that is to say Sankt Moritz, Igls and Koenigssee.
The first two of the league have made the race apart from the rest of the company, leaving the task of playing the'' final placement of the podium. Vying for third place at the end of the first descent c'' three athletes were well covered by just 4 cents, John Daly, Tomass Dukurs and Sergei Chudinov. At the end winner was the eldest Dukurs, Tomass, who has made a difference in the bottom of the bowl ahead of Austrian Chudinov 7 cents and 17 of the American'' Daly.
One of the major players in the final round was undoubtedly Matthew Antoine. The'' American winner in Lake Placid was the author of a great comeback during the decisive run that allowed him to recover as many as six positions, from twelfth to sixth partial final. Behind him, he finished the Olympic champion Jon Montgomery at the best result of the season, that with this placement may have convinced the leaders of his own federation to convene at the next Olympic Games in Sochi.
Rounding out the top ten of the'' American Kyle Tress, Germany's Frank Rommel and the English'' Ed Smith. Race to forget for John Fairbairn that after the third place a week ago in St. Moritz finished in thirteenth place, worse than he did the Germans kroeckel and Gassner which are respectively ranked the fourteenth and sixteenth place in general.
Continue the negative moment'' s Italian skeleton. Gaspari Mattia was the better of the two blues in the race, finishing twenty-fourth while the'' Italian-Canadian Joseph Cecchini finished in the twenty-seventh position paying heavily the lack of experience on the European casings.
The next weekend in Koenigssee,'' will be held the last round of the World Cup skeleton, the last test before the Olympic Games in Sochi.
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