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Today afternoon from 15.30 Italian'' will begin the adventure of the athletes in the Olympic women's luge. The favorite main course for success is Germany's Natalie Geisenberger (pictured) dominating the last two seasons in the draw yesterday drew the number 2.
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The main opponents of the two-time winner of the World Cup will be the teammate and defending champion Tatjana Huefner Olympic pectoral 9, the Canadian Alex Gough number 10 and the Russian host Tatiana and Natalia Ivanova Khoreva respectively bib bib 4 and 8.
Among the outsiders deserve a mention veteran Anke Wischnewski (7), the young American Kate Hansen (3) and the surprising Swiss Martina Kocher (5) which has been very strong in the time trials.
As far as the Italian'' there will be three athletes at the start, Sandra Gasparini'' s unique trio joined the group about, start with the number 6, while the two young Sandra and Andrea Robatscher Voetter snap with bib 14 and 17.
The second round is scheduled from 17.35 Italian
Starting order competition women1 1 2 BATURINA2 Ekaterina RUS GER Natalie GEISENBERGER3 3 USA Kate HANSEN4 Tatyana RUS IVANOVA5 4 5 6 ON Martina KOCHER6 ENG GER Anke WISCHNEWSKI8 Sandra GASPARINI7 7 8 9 KHOREVA9 Natalya RUS GER Tatjana HUEFNER10 10 11 U.S. CAN Alex GOUGH11 Erin HAMLIN12 12 CAN Kimberley MCRAE13 Nina REITHMAYER14 14 13 AUT ITA Sandra ROBATSCHER15 15 UKR Olena SHKHUMOVA16 Viera GBUROVA17 SVK 16 17 18 AUT ITA Andrea VOETTER18 Miriam KASTLUNGER19 WOJTUSCISZYN20 Natalia POL 19 20 21 LAT LAT Ulla ZIRNE21 Eliza TIRUMA22 22 CAN Arianne JONES23 23 POL Ewa KULS24 24 AUT Birgit PLATZER25 25 USA Summer BRITCHER26 CZE Vendula KOTENOVA27 26 27 28 KAZ KOR Eunryung SUNG28 Yelizaveta AXENOVA29 29 ROU Raluca STRAMATURARU30 UKR 30 31 Olena STETSKIV31 Morgane FRA BONNEFOY
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