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The family Dukurs continues to dominate the scenes of the Skeleton World Cup men. & Nbsp; The two brothers Latvians have monopolized the first two steps of the podium in Altenberg, in the third round of the World Series.
Saturday 10 January 2015 5 minutes reading time
In first position is & egrave; placed naturally Martins Dukurs one who in the last six years is rewriting through victories history of this discipline. The thirty year old native of Riga but based in Sigulda, not & egrave; fact intimidated by the difficult track conditions German made extremely slippery by the rain that & egrave; befallen Altenberg during the night. Indeed the ice situation has allowed further enhance their innate driving skills of the star players of Latvia, which has virtually given lessons lines and smoothness throughout the rest of the company in a single trimming back the beauty of 8/10 of the first beat.
In the downhill final & nbsp; Dukurs has further attacked despite the condition of the gut were decidedly worse step by step, ending his race in first place with a margin of more than one second on brother Tomass that for the third consecutive time this season the & egrave; finished behind. For the family of Latvia than today & egrave; l & rsquo; eleventh-two in the circuit of the World Cup, a record that is unlikely unparalleled in other disciplines of the sport.
Third place for the Olympic champion Alexander Tretiakov & Outdoors; seasonal debut in the maximum world circuit. The Russian genuine star of the push quest & rsquo; today & egrave; managed to put his nose to the brothers Baltic only in the first meters of the race when he set a new record of starting & rsquo; plant in Saxony. At the pi & ugrave; Technical & ograve; Tretiakov not & egrave; never been able to face the competition of Dukurs had to settle for third place. & nbsp;
The Russian preceded only 4 cents an excellent Axel Jungk, great to recover two positions during the final descent. Fifth place for the & rsquo; rising star of Russian movement skeleton Nikita Tregybov. The young national champion of Russia, which was reported last year at the Olympics in Sochi and that & egrave; was a tostissimo opponent in the first races of Tretiakov seasonal Intercontinental Cup quest & rsquo; today & egrave; proved extremely competitive in the tour of the German track foreshadowing great things in the coming events of the World Cup.
Extremely disappointing race for the & rsquo; American Matthew Antoine literally collapsed during the second closed down only in fifteenth position. & Nbsp;
Good season debut for the & rsquo; blue Mattia Gaspari that with fourteenth place today has collected the first points of his career in the maximum circuit skeleton. The twenty-one Cortina seventeenth after the first descent & egrave; was skilled in the final round to take advantage of the lower pectoral starting to recover three placings.
John Mulassano second Italian athlete at the start, has instead ended in twenty-third position. L & rsquo; agent of Prison Police has compromised its performance gi & agrave; in the opening round, putting out their skeleton from departure platform and consequently suffered a heavy detachment.
The next round of the Skeleton World Cup & egrave; scheduled for two weeks on the track of Koenigssee in Germany.
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