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Victory for dispersion for Martins Dukurs in the second race of Sankt Moritz valid as the sixth round of the World Cup men's skeleton.
Sunday 12 January 2014 9 minutes reading time
The Latvian champion who won the trial on Friday,'' quest today has practically no rivals had already signing a run in the first tempone which effectively ended the race. Dukurs has in fact more than half a second off his brother Tomass while the rest of the starters accused detachments definitely heavier.
In the final descent, the four-time winner of the World Cup, further improved the previous reference lap, snatching an elusive 59 '84'' and becoming the only athlete at the start of the race to get under the wall of the minute. With this success, the quarter of the twenty-eighth season of his career, the greatest of all time skelettonista rushes towards the achievement of its fifth consecutive crystal ball.
Behind the Latvian champions for the third time in this 2014 Latvia and especially the family can celebrate a'' Dukurs other goals. Tomass Dukurs was escorted to the podium in fact the younger brother Martins, playing an impressive display free of smudges that allowed him to trim the beauty of 6/10 to third place.
At the present time the two brothers Latvians seem to be on another planet and according to some of these results are due in part to'' attentive and maniacal work just putting materials that the two Dukurs held privately.
The podium was completed by John Fairbairn that the world's most famous track gets first career placement in the top three. The Canadian fourth at the end of the first descent was very bright in the final stretch of the gut Swiss bringing Canada on the podium in a World Cup event after two years.
At the edge of the top three positions was placed Sergei Chudinov. The Russian big disappointment of the race on Friday, this is'' Today is readily redeemed taking fourth place in the comeback. The same Chudinov save the Russian expedition as the spearhead of the team's Alexander Tretyakov, collapsed in seventh place due to a first run decidedly negative. With this result Tretyakov lost more points in the standings and the dream of raising to the sky for the first time the World Cup starts to fade.
Fifth place for the'' English Kristan Bromley who returns to play a leading role in many years. The husband of Shelley Rudman might even get on the podium in the race if he had not committed the final few minor imperfections in the final stretch. Behind Bromley has placed the'' American Matthew Antoine who continues his excellent season on the upper floors of the standings.
Another bad race for Germany. Quest'' today the only Alexander kroeckel ranked'' s inside the top ten, while Frank Rommel is finished in thirteenth place and Christopher Grotheer has not even qualified for the final run. In light of the victories of Alexander Gassner in the Intercontinental Cup and the disappointing performance of athletes of the World Cup is not excluded that in the next few events you can not attend to new remixing'' s internal training Teutonic.
The happy surprise of the day comes from John Farrow. '' The Australian'' quest twelfth today has a story behind it that is worth a little detour. Two years ago, while Farrow was doing warm-up exercises to get off the race in Lake Placid, he stumbled and fell back torn ligaments and the anterior and corraterali of a hamstring injury that were added to the fracture of the tibia and d'' Achilles tendon in addition to the severe damage to the peroneal nerve of the left leg.
A fall somewhat trivial but has had dramatic implications in respect of the unfortunate athlete who at that moment he saw'' compromise the rest of his racing career after years and years of work and sacrifice to get to the highest level.
Since that terrible day he has lived for two years skelettonista austrialiano very troubled by undergoing several surgical procedures and long sessions of rehabilitation because once you arrived at the hospital the doctors who have visited the'' considered very high risk that Farrow would no longer walked normally.
For this reason, after the delicate operations to the'' Achilles tendon and knee that required cartilaggini transplant, doctors have had to deal with the recovery of function of the left foot which was in a state of paralysis.
In the months following the Australian skelettonista moved to Lake Placid to return to his true love: the skeleton. Farrow was not able to walk properly, but thanks to his strong will and passion for the sport was able to embark on the start ramp of the American gut using the push of the foot healthy!
After one year'' from'' accident and after months and months of riabilitazone'' the athlete has returned to compete at the international level managing to win a pass for the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014 pushing the skeleton with a'' single leg!
So friends of the unfortunate skelettonista decided to start studying for a solution that would allow Farrow to overcome this deficit. So it was thought to realize a splint (initially plastic subsequently kevlaer and carbon) that could serve as support for the left foot of Farrow and enabling him to move the foot 90 degrees.
For this reason, the twelfth Australian today'' s worth as much as a success since'' on challenging Olympia Bob Run in St. Moritz has put behind the athletes first and foremost very noble Frank Rommel.
Another race to forget for the Italian''. Gaspari Mattia has closed the twenty-fourth while Joseph Cecchini was placed in the Twenty-ninth and last place.
The next round of the World Cup skeleton is scheduled for seven days in Igls Tyrol.
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