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On the historic St. Moritz track of quests today'' went on stage the fifth round of the World Cup skeleton.
Friday 10 January 2014 6 minutes reading time
Dominating the scene for the second consecutive race were brothers Dukurs. Latvians during the race have come and gone at the top of the standings annihilating the competition especially in the final round. The winner was the younger of the two Dukurs, Martins, the great pre-race favorite, who on the runway last season denied him the third world title of his career, it is readily redeemed.
The champion of Riga, the second after the first run was the author of an outstanding final descent which allowed him to recover Fourteen hundredths that separated him from his brother Tomass and win the third victory of the season. , Dukurs has made a difference in the final stretch of the'' Olympia Bob Run, drawing perfect lines and proving once again clearly superior to the other participants.
The house party Dukurs was completed by'' high performance'' Tomass that was the only athlete able to overcome his brother in the first descent'' and the only one to contain the final gap in a reasonable time. The maximum of Dukurs has indeed finished in second place with 26 cents late winner.
Continue the "magic moment" of'' American Matthew Antoine. U.S. The winner of the race in Lake Placid took the third podium of the season, confirming among the big names of the discipline and inserting strongly in the list of eligible candidates for an Olympic medal in Sochi.
At the foot of the podium was placed the overall leader Alexander Tretyakov. The Russian Quest'' today is due to bow in front of the supremacy of the Latvian pair, but above all he dimostato once again to be a champion of the drive but not a great rider driven since the stretch was significantly also beaten by'' American Antoine.
In American home good test for Kyle Tress who completed the top five, ahead'' in order Fairbairn, Brombley and kroeckel. Quest'' last was the best of an increasingly disappointing Germany. The German team race after race continues to play a role of supporting actors in the landscape skeleton World,'' and the eighth of Rommel kroeckel the tenth and twelfth of Grotheer are a clear sign of a team in obvious difficulty .
Among the surprises of the day must be reported good performance of the fifteenth Sasahara Yuki Japanese, Spanish Ander Mirambell sixteenth and eighteenth greek Alexandros Kefalas.
Race to forget for Sergei Chudinov that last year at this track had caught an incredible iridescent bronze. The Russian Quest'' today has never been in the running for a place on the top floors of the standings, closing only in twentieth position. Worse than he did the British Parsons twenty-first, the'' American John Daly and ventireesimo Olympic champion Jon Montgomery at the season's debut in the maximum circuit skeleton, he finished twenty-ninth and last place. A result'' last quest that weakens its already little chance of being able to take off at the next Olympic Games in Sochi.
Try undertone for the two blue at the start. The young Mattia Gaspari at the second World Cup race of his career he finished twenty-sixth place, while the Italian-Canadian'' Cecchini has reached twenty-eighth. Both Italians did not qualify for the final round.
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