LugeTobogganing - Park City
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It ended with the victory of Armin Zöggeler the first glimpse of this extraordinary season of the World Cup. The champion of Foiana on track in Park City quest'' to the public today showed all his class by drawing perfect lines in the central part of the gut of Utah.
Saturday 14 December 2013 4 minutes reading time
The'' blue has made it clear things during the first descent in which he managed to hold the gap in the boost phase and in the section headed thanks to the materials fast has made a difference uncorking the best time that allowed to drive the partial list with more than one-tenth of the first against rivals.
In the final run Zöggeler was repeated, showing again the best reference clock that has allowed him to get his cinquantaseisima career victory. The "cannibal" next blue flag bearer at the Games in Sochi, can riternersi fully satisfied with this start to the season that has reserved two podiums.
Behind the blue phenomenon was placed the idol Chris Mazdzer''.'' The American in this trip North American scored his two best results of his career and who knows what its positive trend can be confirmed also in Europe.
The podium was completed by Wolfgang Kindl. '' The Austrian thanks to a superb final round he recovered six positions closing on the third step of the podium. Behind the closed red white blue l'' Dominik Fischnaller. The South Tyrolean'' on track'' that saw him become world champion junior a year ago has thrown away a great chance to get on the podium. During the first run the'' blue has committed a barb when pulling that if'' is brought as a dowry to the finish. In the final run Dominik failed to take advantage of the quality of their toboggan however, closing in fourth position and gaining important points in key World Cup standings.
Fifth place went to Olympic champion Felix Loch, fourth after the first run, the author of'' a good first stint but due to some burrs and materials with little performance had to settle'' s last place of the top five.
A position further back David Moeller concluded that due to a bad final run has lost four placings compared to the first run.
Continue the negative moment of Andi Langenhan. The Teutonic continues to show obvious problems with their own materials since the upper part of the tracks is always among the fastest while the stretches where it counts reach top speeds high German is always among the slowest. The runner-up of last year's World Cup quest'' closed today for the fourth time this season outside the top ten.
The next round of the World Cup luge will be held on the first weekend of 2014 on the track of Koenigssee.
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