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Russia dominates the baton of European luge staged this morning in Sigulda. The test team today is not assigned points for the ranking of the World Cup as it was reserved only to the nations of the old continent.
Sunday 26 January 2014 3 minutes reading time
Absent the axes of the German team, the odds Eve foresaw a challenge to two of Russia and Italy with the blues slightly favored to win as they had at the start of the test winners of the men's single and double.
The long-awaited fight for the gold'' continental'' there is actually just been, with the Russian team, who immediately made a difference in the first fraction with the neo-European champion Natalia Khoreva who did the voice large, while the great absent of the men's race was Albert Demtschenko author of the best part-time flipping the double-Yuzhakov Makhnutin with a big margin against rivals. Russia has thus expected to finish the descent of the penultimate Italian from the start.
'' The Italian side featuring Sandra Gasparini, Armin Zöggeler and Oberstolz-Gruber has already abandoned the dreams of glory at the end of the first change, when the athlete'' Vipiteno / Sterzing closed with a delay of more than half a second by the leaders of race. Zöggeler (pictured) has failed to stem the delay that slowly has plunged the Italian'' also ranks third behind Latvia. In the last part of the Italian double-signed the best part but it was not enough to return to the team in front of the hostess.
The blue team must also "thank" Dajana Eitberger author of a blunder at the end of its descent to the blues that gave the bronze continent.
In light of this result is quite clear that unless sensational surprises'' s difficult to Italy in Sochi will be vying for an Olympic medal.
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