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It & egrave; ended with the expected victory of Germany in the relay, the race weekend in Sigulda. The 'Baltic tricky track allowed for a time to ensure great performance in a competition that usually offers little excitement.
Sunday 10 January 2016 3 minutes reading time
A win as alluded & egrave; was the favored German team which deploys in the first fraction Tatjana Huefner, the second winner of the competition for men & nbsp; Felix Loch and in the last two composed by Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt. The team has struggled more Teutonic & ugrave; expected to bend competition from Latvia and Russia.
The Germans have indeed been right only thanks all''ottima fraction of Wendl-Arlt that avoiding committing smudge at the bottom of the track managed to recover all the loss of leading after two thirds of the race. To make more & ugrave; easy life to Germany c''ha thought twice Bogdanov Russian-Medvedev that out of the curve 14 lurched violently leaving the field almost a second. Without this obvious error Russia quest''oggi would surely beat the German squad as both the winner of the women's race Tatiana Ivanova that Semen Pavlichenko & nbsp; had been able to establish the best lap times.
The Russians were preceded on the podium by increasingly & ugrave; Latvia convincing that in front of the home crowd & egrave; It failed again to snatch a stunning performance, winning the third season in second place and keeping the top in the Cup standings.
Very disappointing race for the 'Italy. The Italian team which included among its ranks Andrea Voetter, Dominik Fischnaller and Oberstolz-Gruber ended only in seventh place on the top or & nbsp; between nations traditionally winning luge on artificial track. Today's result is coupled to a number of compensatory measures which not only confirms the serious crisis faced by the Italian luge. Hope & egrave; that technicians blue will soon succeed in finding the key to the problem succeeding in time to recreate a youth movement that only a few seasons ago was quite prosperous.
The next round of the relay & egrave; scheduled on February 7 in Sochi.
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