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Germany begins in the sign of the 38th edition of the Luge World Cup. The German Wunderteam quest''oggi at Igls in the first race of the season has once again laid down the law by placing four of its representatives to the first four places & nbsp; of the standings. & Nbsp;
Saturday 29 November 2014 8 minutes reading time
Since the first descent in fact the four Teutonic & nbsp; had literally vacuum leaving the other participants only the fight for positions of being tucked. Beyond the & agrave; domain German test today & egrave; tutt''altro that was boring, even from the point of view of the show held bank offers an attractive challenge to three for the ultimate success which had the protagonists Natalie Geisenberger, Dajana Eitberger and Tatjana Huefner. & nbsp;
The three slittiniste of Germany are given battle to the sound of Temponi, with young Eitberger that at the end of the first run is & egrave; inserted to force set within dell''annunciato duopoly Geisenberger-Huefner. The first three of the class are cos & Igrave; distributed in the final run for almost matched since they were grouped in a patch of just 72 thousandths.
If the first run & egrave; was fought the second offered few emotions. Huefner probably annoyed dall''essere been surpassed in ranking by Eitberger improved his time to push & nbsp; but committed some inaccuracies in the technical part of the track, which made her lose precious milliseconds, preventing & nbsp; to be able to launch the 'attack the leadership of Geisenberger. Manche conclusive imprecise for Dajana Eitberger perhaps taken from the pressure & egrave; was much less clean the first descent. The twenty-three of Ilmenau for & ograve; saved his & nbsp; & nbsp second position; for just 9 thousandths, thanks to the materials that speed & agrave; rush to the hand were pi & ugrave; performing those of Huefner. & Nbsp;
The lackluster performance of teammates have done nothing but throw open the doors to a new success of Natalie Geisenberger. Olympic champion after sealing the track record in the first round, in the final run & egrave; brushing down the most of every curve of gut Tyrolean closing with a margin of more than 200 milliseconds on rivals. For the Bavarian today's victory is his twenty-fourth success in the World Cup, but especially continues to maintain an average of successes crazy if you think that in the last 17 races in which he took part & egrave; set in 14 occasions!
The big day in Germany Home & egrave; was completed by the fourth port of Anke Wischnewski author of a good final run, which allowed the team Teutonic celebrate the second consecutive poker on the track in Igls.
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The first of the non-German & egrave; was the 'American Erin Hamlin. The Olympic bronze in Sochi after the lackluster first heat & egrave; was the author of a great comeback in the final descent which allowed her to recover well 6 positions, even if the gap from the winner & egrave; result rather high. & nbsp; Hamlin preceded by a few thousandths of the interesting young Kimberley McRae and Emily Sweeney. Quest''ultima to return to the world circuit has achieved his best result of his career.
Completing the top ten the Latvian Elīza Tīruma, the Swiss Kocher and the 'Austrian Platzer respectively eighth, ninth and tenth. Among the top ten of the rankings could place themselves very well the 'blue Sandra Robatscher eighth after the first run. The nineteen year old has for South Tyrolean & ograve; compromised his great result during the final descent due to a serious mistake just before dell''ingresso in the maze that 'has literally planted. The young Italian has cos & Igrave; completed the test for the honor of signing in twenty-fourth position. The provision of Robatscher & egrave; to be considered as positive because & egrave; both yesterday in the Nations Cup today in the first run, has confirmed enormous progress and not & egrave; excluded that gi & agrave; during this season the Italian luger can hit a top ten finish. The 'other blue at the start, Andrea Voetter, finished in sixteenth position.
The big disappointment of the day & egrave; surely the Russian Tatiana Ivanova. The twice European champion & nbsp; after playing a first heat is anonymous & egrave; reversed during the final descent not completing its test. & nbsp;
The race today also established the 'list of starters that Sunday afternoon take part in the first competition Sprint history. The athletes who have obtained the pass are:
1 Geisenberger GER
2 Eitberger GER
3 Huefner GER
4 Wischnewski GER
5 Hamlin USA
6 McRae CAN
7 Sweeney USA
8 Tiruma LAT
9 Kocher ON
10 Platzer AUT
11 Katnikova RUS
12 Stramaturaru ROM
13 Clukey USA
14 Britcher USA
15 Baturina RUS
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