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Alexander Tretyakov is close to winning the gold medal in skeleton'' male. The twenty-eight home athlete has in fact limited the damage in this third down, remaining in command of the provisional standings with a margin of 54 cents on the rival Martins Dukurs.
Saturday 15 February 2014 4 minutes reading time
Tretyakov turned in a test tutt'' nothing but impeccable committing several errors especially in the central and final Olympic Sliding Center Sanki, yet once again the big difference'' has made in the initial part where he established as usual, the best intermediate in the boost phase, hence rejecting the possible return of Dukurs.
The Latvian for its part has literally enchanted by the lines by extremely clean, realizing perhaps the better run of the two days of racing, but unfortunately for him, this performance has allowed him to recover only two cents against the leader of the race.
At this point Tretyakov which until now has always lived in the shadow'' s champion of Riga, will be found to fall in the fourth and decisive round with a substantial margin of safety that could consecrate in the history of this discipline. The Russian sorprattutto must keep focused since the entire gut'' and'' probably the whole of Russia will have all eyes on him, a difficult situation to manage especially for those not used regularly starting with the role leader of the race.
If the first two medals have been awarded by now, there is still great uncertainty'' for the bronze medal. In fact, this third run, the'' American Matthew Antoine has jumped from just 6 cents teammate John Daly in third place in the provisional standings. The two Americans have played both a'' good repelling down the possible return of Tomass Dukurs and Sergei Chudinov that now find themselves in fifth and sixth place.
Great race for the young Nikita Trebykov third Russian at the start and recent winner of the Intercontinental Cup skeleton circuit, which has scored an excellent third time taking part in seventh place just 9 cents from teammate Chudinov.
The top ten was completed by Canadian and British Fairbairn Parsons and Bromley respectively eighth, ninth and tenth. Disappointing performance for the German Frank Rommel sinking in eleventh place after committing several smears.
The'' blue Maurizio Oioli has confirmed the result of the previous day settling in seventeenth place, centering the'' goal to qualify for the final run which as usual will be exclusively reserved for the top twenty of the general.
The decisive round will kick off at 17.15 from Italian.
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