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Gints Narogs, “Latvijas Avīze”, JSC “Latvijas Mediji”
Skeletonist Martin Dukur had won 13 races in a row on the Austrian track in Egls, but last week he finished second in the first round of the World Cup.
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After the first race, Martin was the leader, 0.09 seconds ahead of the German Christopher Groter, while the third place was shared by two Olympic champions Alexander Tretyakov from Russia and Sunbin Jun from South Korea.
Tretyakov succeeded in the second race, Dukurs allowed some inaccuracies, losing seven hundredths in the end. Tomas Dukuram 16th place. In the ladies’ competition, Andy Steel has only one race and 22nd place, celebrating the victory for the Russian Yelena Nikitina.
In the bobsleigh doubles Oskars Ķibermanis / Matīss Miknis were ninth after the first race, in the second 12th place, the same in the sum. The head coach of the national team Sandis Prūsis admitted that there have been experiments with the equipment that have not really paid off, because the sledge has not slipped, but there were also mistakes on the track.
In the quadruples, with the presence of Dāvis Spriņgis and Kristi Lindenblat, the sixth and fifth place in the races is already much more hopeful, finishing the top five in the sum as well. Against the general background, we are losing the leaders in the start, where ours are the eighth and fourth best times.
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