LugeLuge - Lillehammer
Copyright BSD
No big news in the world of luge doubles. The German duo dominated the last season consists of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Artl, imposed its law in the first round of the season, which took place this morning in Lillehammer.
Saturday 16 November 2013 5 minutes reading time
The two "Bayern-Express" have built the success in today's first descent where they were practically perfect, to the point enough to mark the new track record in Norway. In the second run the two phenomena Bavarian, contrary to the usual have committed several mistakes especially in the stretch faster than the gut Lillehammer that caused him to miss the'' inexorably amassed huge advantage in the first round.
However, the best time vital thrust obtained in the second descent has allowed the two Bavarian close anyway victoriously albeit by a margin of only 19 milliseconds on Eggert-Benecken countrymen.
For Wendl-Artl is the eighteenth success in career, the third consecutive World Cup if you count the last two statements of the past season.
Germany celebrates as forecast with a brace the first round of the season. Behind the two world champions were placed, the convincing Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, which thanks to the fastest time in the final round have jumped the Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger seconds after the first run and came close to success.
Behind the top three on the vacuum. At the foot of the podium are classified blues Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber that thanks to the fourth run time recorded in the final descent have recovered nine positions relative to the disastrous first run. The double peak of the Italian movement has, however, lagged abbisale against the winners of more than half a second, but the figure that arouses greater preoccupation are more than 4/10 that divide the blues from the podium.
Colorless Race for the other two doubles Italian. Young Rieder-Rastner, eighth at the end of the first descent, made a rather serious error out of the curve 10 that made them back in eleventh place behind team-mates Fischnaller-Schwienbacher who have closed the top ten.
Good team from Russia that has 2 associations ranked in the top ten of the rankings. The veterans Yuzhakov-Maknutin, winners of the last Nations Cup, they finished fifth while the protagonists of the interior trails Denisyev-Antonov came seventh.
The Austrians Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller are the positive surprise in this first round of the season. The two red and white class of 1994, have amazed the first run where they finished in fourth position just 40 thousandths of Eggert-Benecken. In the final round the two have made a serious mistake behind the curve 13, which greatly slowed them up to get them down in sixth place overall. Despite the inaccuracies in palesate'' final descent, the performance of Steu-Koller has not gone unnoticed and who knows what the'' Austria did not find in them the heirs of the two times Olympic champions Linger-Linger.
Race subdued for Penz-Fischler, third place in last season's World Cup, which have never entered into the heart of the race finishing in an anonymous ninth place for them.
The big disappointment of the day about young Canadians Walker-Snith authors of two heats nothing short of disastrous that condemned them to dicianovvesima position.
The World Cup luge double resume this weekend at the gut Tyrolean village of Igls.
Social media engagement
Ultimi in Sport invernali
Ricco week-end in Cechia: Nicole Mastalli vince in super-g, Michael Bertagno in slalom dopo il dominio di Ales Knor
Sci d'erba: sulla pista di Obri Sud Javornik, triplo appuntamento FIS (e per la Junior Cup) partendo dalle gare veloci col timbro della lombarda, mentre in gigante comincia il dominio della nazionale di casa, con la chiusura odierna in slalom che parla azzurro in ambito maschile. Nel prossimo week-end le finali di Coppa del Mondo a Predaia, nel cuore del Trentino.
2