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They open with a victory blue, the European Championships of natural luge track in progress to Umhausen Austria.
Friday 17 January 2014 4 minutes reading time
The dual Italian and composed by Patrick Pigneter by Florian Clara took quest'' now the second continental title of his career and has made the'' making a small miracle in the final round. Pigneter-Clara (pictured) were in fact in second place after the first run, trailing by 16 cents by ex-world champions Porshnev-Lazarev who led the dance after the first round.
In the final run the blues masters of the past season, they pulled out their claws leading the whole race'' s attack that allowed him to snatch the best time of day and especially to turn the tables in its favor, crossing the finish line victoriously with a margin of just 9 cents on the Russians.
"We knew we had to make a great second run to recover - FIL tells Pigneter at the site of the end of the race - and we succeeded. Russians have made two great trials and us as well. Eventually, the difference was minimal, but in this sport postings are these. "
"I think in the second race we missed something - sums Lazarev - and that's why we lost the gold medal''. Anyway I think we are fit and match the season is better than last year.'s Second place is a good result, of course, not perfect. "
The European podium was completed by another Russian partnership, Egorov-Popov, which, although far behind the first two crews he reached fourth consecutive placement in the top-three this season.
Austrian Schopf disappoint double-Schopf and Regensburger-Holzknecht that the home track have not gone beyond the fourth and fifth place.
 With this success, the Italian association takes off in the ranking of the World Cup by bringing in 60 share points ahead of Egorov-Popov and 85 lengths margin over the other Russian-Porshnev Lazarev.
Tomorrow the blues will be back on track, this time in the skeleton where Patrick Pigneter will again be the man to beat''.
The next appointment with the world instead of the double, is scheduled in a week on the track Olang / Olang which will stage the fifth act of the World Cup from 2013 to 2014.
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