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Great show in the first round of the Women's Skeleton World Championships in Winterberg. The number one favorite of the eve the 'English Elizabeth Yarnold provissoria leads the standings by a margin of just one cent on Canadian Elisabeth Vathje.
Friday 6 March 2015 4 minutes reading time
The two protagonists of this first World Championship downhill & nbsp; while finding himself in command of the list with almost the same time, they have played a very heat antipodes. The North American & nbsp; benefited in the initial part of the German track & nbsp; printing a good time to push, while Olympic champion & egrave; was much more devastating in the stretch & ugrave; Technical dell''impianto dell''Hochsauerland or one that leads to the finish line by kreisel, recovering only in the last 17 seconds of the race over 2/10 to rival.
Unlike the men's race where virtually the games for the first two positions were gi & agrave; were defined after un''unica descent, in the test female still maintain great uncertainty. At the back of the Yarnold and Vathje you & egrave; inserted a beautiful Jacqueline Loelling & nbsp; athlete the world debut and the first real comparison against the best in the world skeletoniste gave driving lessons to all of them. The champion of the world junior fact despite a slow start, the stretch pi & ugrave; Technical & nbsp; of the home track (& ​​egrave; born in one hour by road from Winterberg) recovered more than 3/10 to Lizzy Yarnold closing at just 20 cents from the peak.
An incredible achievement to Loelling but not entirely surprising given that the German twenties had put in line all teammates over the trails selection of late October and above had reaffirmed his class at the national championships in December, results that & ograve; did not allow her to become part of the World Cup because & egrave; the 'last available seat was given to the right to Anja Huber-Selbach that he played his final season of his career.
Besides Loelling there are two other athletes still eligible candidates for success, or at least for a podium place. It dell''altra Teutonic Tina Hermann fourth to 30 cents from Yarnold, and the amazing Canadian Jane Channell that thanks to a tempone when pushing it & egrave; hoisted in fifth place at 31 cents from the leadership.
Good test well for Switzerland Gilardoni sixth and seventh McGrandle Rose, evil instead Janine Flock only eleventh to more than 71 cents from the medal 'gold and especially Elena Nikitina whose race & egrave; practically finished before you start. The fact he missed the Russian grip the handles of his skeleton in the boost phase slipping forward in lion's skin.
The second run & egrave; scheduled from 12:45.
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