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Incredible victory Samuel Edney in Calgary in the fourth round of the Luge World Cup. The 'home athlete has achieved a success roccambolesco result of his great experience on this plant, which has allowed him to find the perfect trajectories despite the heavy snow.
Saturday 13 December 2014 6 minutes reading time
The race today & egrave; been completely revolutionized following widespread protests that the technicians of the pi & ugrave; important national federations avvanzato after the first descent. The initial heats fact, had played under a heavy snowfall & egrave; intensified when they had gone from the best tobogganists the world. Quest''ultimi gathered the top of the track completely whitewashed, that has them heavily penalized in the boost phase leading them to close their test with detachments from heavy leader. Cos & Igrave; the technical committee of the International Federation decided to listen to the grievances of various national annulling the first descent, and proposing the dispute of the competition on un''unica heats taking into account only the results of the second run.
The decision of the FIL has also not deprived of deserved success Samuel Edney, athlete who had ended the first run command. The thirty year old luger Calgary quest''oggi all probability & agrave; would win even with favorable weather conditions, as if it had taken account of both the Canadian would run trimmed the beauty of 325 milliseconds to Felix Loch. The Canadian national champion celebrates cos & Igrave; front of their fans the first victory of his career, but especially gives Canada a historic first triumph in the world circuit of the sled. Before today, the best result for a Canadian male athlete was the second place of Miroslav Zajonc dating back to January 30, 1983, that the first edition of the World Cup.
In place of 'honor trailing by 109 thousandths closed the overall leader Felix Loch. Two-time Olympic champion has tried to counter the leadership dell''atleta home scoring in the middle third a great reference lap but there & ograve; not & egrave; enough to unseat Edney from the first position. In Optical Crystal Ball today's result is in favor of German accomplice sixth Dominik Fischnaller earn important points in graduatori World Cup.
The podium & egrave; was completed by the American author Chris Mazdzer un''ottima performance of the 'deprived of second place by just eight thousandths. The 'American won his third career podium going up & ograve; for the first time on the third step of the podium. & nbsp;
The second race for the 'blue Dominik Fischnaller that & egrave; among those who most benefit from the decision of the IDF to cancel the result of the first descent. The twenty-Alto Adige in fact had closed the initial heats only in fifteenth position in proving strong difficulty & agrave; Canadian on track. Confirming there & ograve; are the results obtained by the athletes who had gone with the same weather conditions encountered dall''azzurro who had managed to fit into the fourth and seventh. Nell''unica heats valid for the final classification Fischnaller has lost precious milliseconds in the final finishing in sixth place, behind Egger and Langenhan. For the luge of Mühlbach is the first result of the season outside of the podium, but gi & agrave; Fischnaller could return in a few hours on the podium in the sprint race.
Best race of the season for the Blues David Mair and Emanuel Rieder who have closed respectively in eleventh and twelfth position, with quest''ultimo that can & ograve; celebrate also the best result of his career. Twenty-second place instead for Kevin Fischnaller who had gone pretty well in the heats canceled.
In a few hours the tobogganists will be back on stage with the second sprint race of the season.
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