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One week after the first round of the World Cup luge continue from Igls in Austria. The race weekend will be inaugurated by Austrian female test which will involve the main protagonists of the circuit in the early morning of Saturday, November 23.
Thursday 21 November 2013 7 minutes reading time
The Austrian track will be an important test to understand the'' actual health status of the German national team, exit completely resized after the race in Lillehammer. For Igls in fact, on a track traditionally favorable to Germany (in the last 20 editions have won only slittiniste Teutonic), the German dream team will be expected to demonstrate their technical counterperformance that bad a week ago were not due to poor physical condition but the athletes were only the result of a lack of knowledge of the Norwegian gut.
In Tyrol, the number one favorite will no doubt Natalie Geisenberger. The Bavarian'' seems to be the only athlete of the lot, able to extract from the cylinder that something extra that feature only the top-notch and always use it at the right time, as happened last Saturday in the second run of Lillehammer.
The twenty-five Berchtesgaden has triumphed once on the track in Igls, picking up four podiums in his career anyway,'' the last of which just last season when it was beaten by compatriot Anke Wischnewski (pictured). Quest'' together with a last Tatjana Huefner, super determined to erase the eighteenth place a week ago, will be the main enemy of internal Geisenberger.
In addition to the two compatriots, the leader of the general classification will have to hold in high esteem also the Russian Tatiana Ivanova second in Lillehammer, and especially the Canadian Alex Gough third last year to Igls and record holder thrust of the Austrian gut.
It will be followed with particular attention to evidence of'' American Kate Hansen in Lillehammer had finished the first run in the first position. The U.S. has played a great pre-season, dominating the American trials and the national championship, and the first confrontation with the main protagonists of the World Cup has proven to have excellent materials and without the many mistakes made in the final round, a week ago could easily fight for a place on the podium.
In Austria, the national team will leave by the encouraging results obtained in Norway. In particular, Sandra Gasparini will be asked to reconfirm on the excellent levels expressed a week ago when he came in sixth place. Andrea and Sandra Vötter Robatscher (seventeenth in Lillehammer) instead will have as its primary objective to gain a placing in the top 14 of the Nations Cup on Friday that consentierà to take off the actual test of the World Cup.
The Kunsteisbahn Bob-Rodel Igls has been included in the calendar of the World Cup luge since its first edition. In the first race held in January 1978 was hat-trick for West Germany that stood in first place Andrea Fendt, the second and third Elke Djan Regina Koenig.
Germany is the country that has gotten more statements on this track as many as 21 out of 30 races valid for the World Cup. In 1989, in fact, the race was stopped at the end of the first descent therefore the success of the German Jana Bode may not be counted in this particular ranking. The Teutonic leadership of this plant is also underlined by the 14 doubles and 38 podiums from representatives of Germany.
At the individual level, the'' athlete who has risen several times on the top step of the podium at Igls is the German Sylke Otto I conquered 7 statements, three more than Tatjana Huefner. Finally, there is also a'' little'' to'' register'' s blue in the track golden Austrian. In 1991, in fact, Gerda Weissensteiner won here one of his 13 victories in the World Cup.
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SCHEDULE TELEVISIVOLe two heats of the race in Igls will be broadcast live by satellite network EUROSPORT (channels 211/212 platform Sky and 384/385 platform Mediaset Premium).
November 23 - At 08:15 - Eurosport 2 HD - First run November 23 - 09:30 - Eurosport 2 HD - Second round
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