LugeTobogganing - Sochi
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Extraordinary first heat for the home favorite Albert Demtschenko, that on the track in Sochi turned in a perfect test free of smudges undoubtedly helped by fast materials prepared ad hoc by the Italian coach Walter Plaikner.
Saturday 8 February 2014 4 minutes reading time
The Russian has suffered as usual in the boost phase, it was exceptional from the central section onwards, trimming heavy detachments to all major opponents in the first drop-down and mortgaging already a podium finish. In fact, the only Felix Loch, number one favorite for the win, he was able to gamble on par with the forty-two of Chusovoy closing behind him trailing by just 15 thousandths.
Loch went strong in the upper part leading up to half track, then Demtschenko facilitated by the'' fast sled has passed the finish line for a few thousandths. The'' blue Armin Zöggeler as predicted finished in third place partial pay one overcooked impressive in the final stretch where the materials contrary to the usual blues were not performing as well as those of the first two.
Zöggeler at this time has a delay of 336 millessimi leader of the race, except that a heavy detachment sensational surprises unlikely to be filled within the next three rounds. The champion of Foiana will now have to try to defend its position on the podium since the Austrian Egger and Kindl have confirmed this before the big descent impressions expressed in the course of trials ending in fourth and fifth place respectively of 58 detached and 80 thousandths from'' blue.
In the fight for third place on the podium should also include the young Russians and Pavlinchenko Peretyagin trailing by 154 and 169 thousandths Zöggeler, further proof of the quality of the materials prepared by Plaikner.
Performance in line with expectations on the eve of the young Italian Dominik Fischnaller party with bib number one, without apparent that driving errors ended in ninth place for over half a second from Demtschenko. A result that can give him is still a chance to recover some placement and approach at least the top five. Nice first run for Emanuel Rieder, third and last Italian at the start, which is currently the seventeenth.
The big disappointment of the first run comes from German David Moeller thirteenth and favorite number 4 for a place on the podium, that because of this descent is called pretty much already out of the fight for the medals.
The second race starting at 17:40 prevvista Italian. We will start with the'' reversal of the top 12 seeded group. Zöggeler will then bib number 4, while Fischnaller drop to twelfth.
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