Tobogganing: Olympic double falls – tobogganers Storch/Patz persuade | EUROtoday

Before the Olympic premiere in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the ladies’s doubles staff Dajana Eitberger and Magdalene Matschina make a mistake. At the house World Cup in Oberhof, the duo from RC Ilmenau and SV Bad Feilnbach crashed in flip ten after a driving error. Despite the third-best time within the last run, the World Cup remained in 14th place.

The Thuringian double Elisa Storch and Pauline Patz did higher, reaching their finest World Cup results of their profession with second place behind the victorious Austrians Selina Egle and Lara Kipp. «We are tremendous pleased, we did not anticipate it. A weight has been taken off our hearts,” mentioned Patz.

Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal, who celebrated their monitor report and European title the earlier week, additionally made a mistake in flip 9 within the first run. The duo from Altenberg and Winterberg improved from seventh to fourth place with their finest working time.

Eitberger: “We are not ashamed”

«We did not have a lot time to consider what was unhealthy or not. We then determined sure and wished to have a very good second run. We can do it. We usually are not ashamed of the error as a result of we all the time drive on the restrict,” mentioned the 35-year-old former dash world champion Eitberger. In the general World Cup standings, they continue to be in second place behind Egle/Kipp (640 factors) with 508 factors forward of Degenhardt/Rosenthal (490).

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