LugeTobogganing - Altenberg
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Landslide victory for Russia'' quest today in the relay of Altenberg, sixth and final round of the World Cup given to the new discipline of artificial luge track.
Sunday 19 January 2014 4 minutes reading time
The Russian team made up of Tatiana Ivanova, Albert Demtschenko and Yuzhakov-Makhnutin has confirmed the enormous progress already made manifest during the last weekend in Oberhof, demolishing in today's race the track record and also the most favored, resulting invincible Germans. The Russian team than ever this season was on the podium, a little less than a month before the start of the Olympic Games in Sochi gets his second overall win in this event, back on the top step of the podium at a distance of nearly three years after the first triumph of Sigulda.
The extraordinary performance today in Russia begins to tremble Germany on the eve of the race today'' s unanimity was considered the number one favorite for the Olympic gold''. The German team after the big three victories in three disciplines "classic" of the sled, closes the weekend with the'' bad taste in my mouth, as the stellar German team failed to go beyond the third place in the relay.
The team has compromised the Teutonic victory and second place today, not because of brilliant performance by Natalie Geisenberger and Felix Loch who launched the last runners Wendl-Artl already in third place. For Germany, that today is the first real defeat of the season as Winterberg, the Germans had been penalized by the overthrow of Geisenberger.
Keep up the good moment of Canada confirms that consistently on the podium, winning the fourth quest today'' second season. The North American team is the main suspect for the bronze medal in five circles as the'' Austria if it does not recover Nina Reithmayer unlikely to be the game, while the'' Italian at the moment seems to pay too much in the fraction female .
The blue team'' quest today was disqualified after the first exchange, as Armin Zöggeler has triggered the start gate before Sandra Gasparini arrived at the finish line. With this result, the negative'' Italy is exceeded in the Cup standings by the Canada and the United States ending the season in fourth place.
The next team event will be held in February and will award the first Olympic medals in the history of this specialty.
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