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It ended yesterday and this morning the latest trials of the skeleton, the discipline of the gut that will award Olympic medals from Thursday, February 13.
Sunday 9 February 2014 3 minutes reading time
Among women, the fastest was the British who snatched Elizabeth Yarnold time to time innavicinabili by opponents. The winner of the World Cup was'' the only athlete in the race to get under the wall for 59 seconds proving once again to be the woman to beat in the competition even at Five Rings.
Yarnold aside, all the other main protagonists have completed training with virtually the same time. The second has indeed closed the Russian Olga Potylitsina detached from the leaders of 77 cents, while the veteran Canadian Mellisa Hollingsworth has signed the third best reference clock to just 4 cents from the square'' s honor.
Good performance also for Sarah Reid, Michelle Steele and Katie Uhlaender, this last'' in recent days has given way to a poll on Twitter to let the fans choose the most beautiful screen printing to put on the helmet of the race.
At the moment three of the big favorites for a podium place Elena Nikitina, Shelley Rudman and Noelle Pikus-Pace seem to deliberately hide, the first two times they have scored quite high while the'' American has just kicked off the second day of workouts.
In the men the best time was clocked by the German Alexander kroeckel (pictured) ahead in order'' Canadian John Fairbairn and Tomass Dukurs respectively aged 10 and 19 cents. '' The man waited for the race on Friday, Martins Dukurs, ended with the fourth fastest time reference result that stems from a time to push quite high demonstrating that the Latvian champion has not forced anything on this fundamental skeleton.
The'' blue Maurizio Oioli marked the sixteenth time to 90 cents from kroeckel. It should be noted also that in the second day of testing was not involved in the Russian men's team.
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