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Impressive display of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt Oberhof, nell''ottavo round of the World Cup luge The double Olympic champions have dominated the race taking the lead heavy to their opponents and reaching further in the standings. & Nbsp;
Sunday 17 January 2016 5 minutes reading time
The Bavarian association took the distinctly off in the first round by setting the record straight thrust, and then earn more and more & ugrave; ahead of the competition thanks to a combination of quality materials and impeccable trajectories managing to set a new track record. Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken could not in any way counter the superiority & agrave; their rivals to conquer the Crystal Ball, and despite the second place with which they finished the first run, the gap that separated them from the countrymen was well 359 milliseconds.
The two components of the Bayern-Express then took even more & ugrave; off during the second run, and after the game were well 609 thousandths that have divided the winners of the race and the partnership consists Eggert-Benecken, who nonetheless consolidated their second place in the second run.
Wendl-Arlt have cos & Igrave; brought to a single success away from the record of victories in the World Cup held by Leitner-Resch, which rose to 34 times more on the step & ugrave; top of the podium.
Third place went to Peter Penz and Georg Fischler, for the seventh time in the top three out of eight races of the season, despite still missing their success. The two Austrians have failed to recover the tenth delay separating them from Eggert-Benecken after the first heat, but have further increased the chasing pack. Canadians Tristan Walker and Justin Snith, who finished fourth in the race, have in fact suffered a detachment of well 597 thousandths from the podium, showing well the substantial difference c '' & egrave; at the time of the three double rising constantly on the podium and the rest of the world.
Ugrave & much more; balanced and uncertain & egrave; was the fight for positions from fourth to tenth. Back to Canadians, in fifth position they have positioned Andris and Juris Sics who recovered well the delay after a mistake in the first run. Sixths Russians Andrey Bogdanov and Andrey Medvedev, seventh Italians Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber and eighth Germans Geueke Robin and David Gamm, who finished in fourth place the first run but with a very tight lead on rivals. Disappointing ninth place for the 'other double Italian race, the one composed by Ludwig Rieder Rastner and Patrick, who finished sixth after the first run ahead of 1 thousandth compatriots Oberstolz-Gruber and with only 19 thousandths of a detachment from the fourth place Geueke-Gamm, they have precluded any possibility & agrave; comeback of committing a series of inaccuracies during the second descent in the central and in the end of the track.
The athletes will be back on track starting at 15:06 for the sprint race.
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