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Does not begin in the best way the first weekend of seasonal & nbsp; World Cup for the national team of luge. Kevin Fischnaller, cousin of the pi & ugrave; Dominik known, it has blatantly failed to qualify for the race on Sunday.
Friday 27 November 2015 3 minutes reading time
The twenty-two native of Bressanone, has closed only the thirty-place nell''odierna Nations Cup in Igls, test selection of unique race in which it takes part Fridays & Igrave; athletes who are not part of the group of about, coming consequently excluded from the first round of the season.
The 'elimination of Kevin Fischnaller & egrave; nothing short of amazing for several reasons. Firstly because & egrave; the basin Austrian & egrave; the 'usual training ground of the Italian luge team, secondly because & egrave; the technical level of the competitors taking part in the Nations Cup & egrave; very low, and finally because & egrave; on this track the 'South Tyrolean last year had caught his first, and so far only, podium in the World Cup in the Sprint Race.
Altogether the other guys of the National Italian failed to impress. Emanuel Rieder & egrave; finished in twelfth place paying a delay of nearly half a second from Russian Roman Repilov winner of the competition. The nineteen year old Theo Gruber instead concluded in seventeenth place with a gap of 601 thousandths from the leadership. Both the Blues are still at the start of the test on Sunday.
For the record, the race & egrave; was won by Repilov with 46 milliseconds and 161 milliseconds sull''austriaco Armin Frauscher on Latvian Arturs Darzniecks. Try opaque for the Germans Von Schleinitz fourth but transparent for the purposes of qualification, and Chris Eissler sixth.
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