LugeTobogganing - Sochi 2014
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Peremptory victory for Tobias Wendl and Tobias Artl in the luge doubles race. The two German leader at the end of the first descent also dominated the final race crossing the finish line with a lead of more than half a second crew on the first beat.
Wednesday 12 February 2014 9 minutes reading time
Wendl-Artl have once again demonstrated their full force anniettando competition already in the first run and giving driving lessons to everyone'' in the final round where they impressed by the clean lines and the almost total absence of corrections.
A capital trial because it runs in a particular context as'' quest today is over with rather high temperatures compared to the previous days, that would change the values ​​expressed in the course of the season. Instead, the two "Bayern Express" in their first five circles (four years ago were expelled from the Olympic team because of the tight grip of Florschuetz-Resch and Leitner-Resch) have hit the'' Olympic gold, large single triumph, which until now was missing in their extraordinary collection.
Germany so complete for the fifth in the history of the Olympic trio of hits in the three traditional disciplines of the luge (men's singles, women's singles and doubles) that was missing from'' edition Nagano 1998, when he imposed Georg Hackl, Silke Kraushaar and Krausse -Behrendt.
'' The silver medal went to the delighted Wolfgang and Andreas Linger thanks to a perfectly run race and a new slide created ad hoc for the'' main event of the season, rose for the third consecutive time on the podium Olympic. The two brothers Tyrolean men are confirmed by large-scale events as career have been imposed in the Olympics twice, three times at the World Championships, taking "only" a World Cup.
The red and white predecessors as four years ago, the rimontanti Latvian Andris and Juris Sics Sics authors of the best race'' s last four years. The Baltic fact, after the'' silver in Vancouver, except for the world podium in Cesana 2011 were never expressed on large levels Linger yet as they came out once again at the right time.
Sics-Sics, however, must "thank" the second double-Austrian race, composed by Peter Penz and Georg Fischler, that up to half of the second descent was involando towards the Olympic podium, but that exiting a curve made a resounding error that almost made them topple, leaving the ice thousandths important and especially the bronze medal.
The little-coveted fourth place went to Canadians Tristan Walker and Justin Snith, which for just 50 thousandths missed the Olympic podium. The young Canadian association is confirmed in the'' elite luge and a large inezioni of confidence to the Canadian team for the race teams of tomorrow, where the country from Maple Leaf'' s tip bluntly to a medal.
The second race was for the crews blues from which we do not expect a medal, but at least a place in the top five. The better of the two double Italians proved to Oberstolz-Gruber who finished in sixth place but never in a position that they could play for a podium finish. The two veterans of South Tyrol preceded a place young people Rieder-Rastner, very good in the first part of the track and the authors of a better time than that of teammates in the second run. Quest'' last situation could create a sort of headache Italian engineers who must carefully choose which of the two double will complement the blue team in the relay tomorrow.
Both associations were preceded by Italian Denysev first Antonov-Russian crew who ended up plenty far from the podium.
The top ten is completed by the disappointing Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, eighths, that after the disastrous first descent have moved up two positions in the standings but inside they know well you have missed a wonderful opportunity to win an Olympic medal.
Try colorless even for the double peak of the home team, Yuzhakov-Makhnutin who has not been able to take advantage of the home court closing in ninth place, while the tenth place went to appanaggio Latvians Gudramovics-Kalnins.
Tomorrow from 17:40 Italian'' will be staged on the last race of this edition of the Olympic luge, the rookie relay team.
Ranking doubles final
1 T. Wendl / T. ARLT 49,373 (1) 49,560 (1) 1:38.933 +0.0002 A. LINGER / W. LINGER 49,685 (2) 49,770 (2) 1:39.455 +0.5223 A. SICS / J. SICS 49,880 (5) 49,910 (3) 1:39.790 +0.8574 T. WALKER / J. SNITH 49,857 (4) 49,983 (6) 1:39.840 +0.9075 A. DENISYEV / V. ANTONOV 49,936 (6) 50,013 (7) 1:39.949 +1.0166 C. Oberstolz / P. GRUBER 49,976 (7) 50,043 (8) 1:40.019 +1.0867 L. RIEDER / P. Rastner 50,064 (8) 49,975 (5) 1:40.039 +1.1068 T. EGGERT / S. Benecken 50,274 (10) 49,944 (4) 1:40.218 +1.2859 V. YUZHAKOV / V. MAKHNUTIN 50,068 (9) 50,269 (10) 1:40.337 +1.40410 O. GUDRAMOVICS / P. Kalnins 50,388 (12) 50,074 (9) 1:40.462 +1.52911 C. Niccum / J. Terdiman 50,354 (11) 50,591 (13) 1:40.945 +2.01212 M. ZEMANIK / J. PETRULAK 50,548 (13) 50,409 (12) 1:40.957 +2.02413 L. BROZ / A. BROZ 50,665 (15) 50,387 (11) 1:41.052 +2.11914 M. MORTENSEN / P. GRIFFALL 50,637 (14) 51,066 (14) 1:41.703 +2.77015 P. POREBA / K. Mikrut 51,010 (17) 51,170 (15) 1:42.180 +3.24716 M. SOLCANSKY / K. STUCHLAK 50,904 (16) 51,481 (18) 1:42.385 +3.45217 O. OBOLONCHYK / R. ZAKHARKIV 51,795 (19) 51,233 (16) 1:43.028 +4.09518 PARK J. / CHO J.M. 51,643 (18) 51,475 (17) 1:43.118 +4.18519 P. PENZ / G. FISCHLER 49,793 (3) 54,252 (19) 1:44.045 +5,112
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