LugeTobogganing - Sochi
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Do not change the values ​​in the field in the third heat of the men's luge. Championship leader and number one favorite for the final victory Felix Loch continues to dominate the scene by shattering the track record of Krasnaya Polyana by himself detained and flies towards the second consecutive Olympic gold medal.
Sunday 9 February 2014 6 minutes reading time
The twenty-four Bavarian party with bib number one, has an incredible pace immediately impressed by its descent establishing the provisional record of pushing and making a difference in the central part of the gut of Sochi, where he achieved by far the highest speed in the point of the track crossing the finish line with a stratospheric 51 "613, a time far better than the 51" 964 recorded the previous day.
With this peremptory proof of the Teutonic strength is getting closer to his second gold medal of his career'', since even in this race his main opponent Albert Demtschenko has lost further ground. The Russian in the third heat but did not commit smears against a Loch at this level there was'' nothing to do, in fact, of the forty-Chusovoy was able to recover only a few cents in the final stretch of the race ending with a gap of almost four tenths from the German phenomenon.
Big third round for the'' blue Armin Zöggeler that thanks to the third part-time further increases their lead towards the main rivals for a place on the podium. The policeman Foiana, as in the first two runs, has not stood comparison with the first two of the league, but now unless sensational surprises should have put in the safe his sixth consecutive Olympic medal entering more and more into sports legend.
Zöggeler now has a margin of almost 4/10 against the Russian Semen Pavlinchenko surprising that in this second round has recovered two positions, and 457 thousandths of the German Langenhan author of the record push but also author of several smears.
Good performance for the young blue Dominik Fischnaller that after a third round was coming down on the same time and therefore virtually Albert Demtschenko was fighting with teammate Zöggeler for third place. The talentino of Mühlbach, however, has botched the crucial part of the track waving a lot in some corners and ending with the fifth part time. This result, however, made him do two jumps ahead in the standings moving up to sixth position in the fight for a place in the top five. Rounding out the top ten, the third Russian Peretjagin, the two Austrian Egger and Kindl and Latvian Rubenis.
Continue the moment no David Moeller on the eve of the race today on the social network Facebook had stated that he had problems in the development of the sled just yesterday and today that we would have tried again with a new structure. Unfortunately for him, the new settings have not yielded the desired results and two-time world champion remained in fourteenth position.
The third race in blue Emanuel Rieder turned in a run is not all'' height of the two previous losing a position in the standings and is currently in eighteenth place.
At 17.40 Italian triggered the decisive run which will award the medals, we will start with the'' reversal of the provisional standings. The "Cannibal" Armin Zöggeler is called to enter into the story.
Standings after the third round
1 F. LOCH 52,185 (2) 51,964 (1) 51,613 (1) 2:35.762 +0.0002 A. Demchenko 52,170 (1) 52,273 (2) 51,707 (2) 2:36.150 +0.3883 A. Zöggeler 52,506 (3) 52,387 (3) 51,910 (3) 2:36.803 +1.0414 S. Pavlichenko 52,660 (6) 52,593 (10) 51,928 (4) 2:37.181 +1.4195 A. Langenhan 52,707 (8) 52,480 (4) 52,073 (7) 2:37.260 +1.4986 D. FISCHNALLER 52,729 (9) 52,540 (5) 52,007 (5) 2:37.276 +1.5147 A. PERETYAGIN 52,675 (7) 52,590 (9) 52,069 (6) 2:37.334 +1.5728 R. EGGER 52,564 (4) 52,630 (11) 52,152 (9) 2:37.346 +1.5849 W. KINDL 52,586 (5) 52,714 (13) 52,145 (8) 2:37.445 +1.68310 M. Rubenis 52,775 (11) 52,560 (7) 52,229 (10) 2:37.564 +1,802
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