LugeTobogganing - Sigulda
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Great Italian in Sigulda in the 45th edition of the European Championships of artificial luge track went on stage'' quest today on the famous Latvian track and valid as the final test of the World Cup from 2013 to 2014.
Sunday 26 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The cannibile Armin Zöggeler (pictured) has dominated the scene, taking advantage of the fast to the great Italian materials and making a difference in the final part of the track. The champion of Foiana has limited the damage in the ground less congenial to him, the start, but then he pulled out all his innate talent led in the stretch, setting in both races scheduled for the new track record that held since 2011.
Zöggeler with this increased to 57 claims victory in the World Cup and adds to its enviable palmares the third European title of his career. The season of'' South Tyrolean then closed with two hits, results that the greatest luger of all time is not grasped by'' 2010-2011 edition of the maximum circuit of the sled and relaunching quotes Armin in key Olympic medal .
The beautiful blue day is completed by the third place of Dominik Fischnaller, from which perhaps we expected more, as well as Zöggeler was beaten by German Johannes Ludwig, one that in this season he got his worst results always enough to convince head coach Norbert Loch him out of the pink of Olympic athletes.
Fischnaller quest'' today, although they have the same material fast team-mate, has not been flawless in the tour of the track not being able to bridge the gap that separated him from the Teutonic rival at the end of the first round, and indeed in the final run for the twenty-one of Mühlbach has lost further ground with a closing gap quite heavy against Ludwig. Quest'' without'' a mistake last final out of the curve 14 could capture his first career victory as he was traveling on lap times significantly better than those of Zöggeler.
In short, honor, and on the two Italians, but be careful not to get caught up now But too easy enthusiasm for this triumph all blue, because the race today still has to be contextualized to the park via runners that took part. '' It is undeniable fact that the'' absence of Felix Loch, David Moeller, Andi Langenhan and Russian Albert Demtschenko has favored this great result, d'' Besides the outings of the season speak for themselves, the Italians have done to the exclusion of Zöggeler a step back from the beginning of the season convincing.
At the foot of the podium ended the'' local hero Martins Rubenis that gets on the track at home the best result of the season. The Latvian preceded the Russians and Pavlinchenko Peretjagin, while the'' American Chris Mazdzer during the final round made up three positions settling in seventh place in the rankings.
The top ten is completed by the Slovak Josef Ninis, the Norwegian Norbech and a disappointing Samuel Edney.
'' Race to forget for Austria, which has failed to include any representative to the first ten places in the rankings. The best of the red and white was Wolfgang Kindl eleventh, ahead'' in order teammates Manuel Pfister and Reinhard Egger, while Daniel Pfister finished in fifteenth position.
Try colorless to blue the other three in the race. David Mair was placed eighteenth, twenty-fourth and Kevin Fischnaller Emanuel Rieder even in the twenty-eighth position.
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