Winter can develop the sameness of repetition. Soccer, Skiing, Basketball. Nothing seems to change. Then, championship time arrives for Winter Sports, and we look, with regret at the sports we have not followed as we really would have wanted to. Yesterday there were Luge and Skiing World Cup competitions, today there's bobsled, skeleton (which is Luge head first, I think) Rugby, Boxing, and of course Basketball. The Bobsled and Skeleton World Cup is actually a series of competitions, which began on December 9th in Sigulda, Latvia, and wraps up in Calgary on the 24th. The season is beginning to wind down, after months of traveling Europe, the series returns to North American soil when Lake Placid, New York, plays host to the tour’s seventh stop, Friday and Saturday, February 15-16. More than 200 athletes from 24 nations are expected to compete on the Mt. Van Hoevenberg course. Germany’s Francesco Friedrich headlines the men’s bobsled field. The 29 year-old has won 10 times in 12 races, with six, two-man victories and four, four-man wins. He carries a 146-point lead in the chase for the overall two-man World Cup crown and has a 73-point edge in the race for the 2019 overall four-man title. Latvia's Oskars Kibermanis is second in the two man competition, with Germany's Nico Walther currently standing in third place. The four man competition, is also dominated by Friedrich, with Germany's Johannes Lochner in second place, and Kibermanis in third. The race for the overall men’s skeleton World Cup title is very close. Only 76 points separate the top three sleds and just a single point separates first and second place. Olympic champion Yun Sunbin, of South Korea, carries a mere single point lead over Russia’s Alexander Tretiakov and is 76 points ahead of Tretiakov’s teammate, Nikita Tregubov, who sits third. The schedule for the day: 9 am Men’s Skeleton Race – Heat #1 10:30 am Men’s Skeleton Race – Heat #2 11:45 am Awards: Men’s Skeleton 1:30 pm 4-man Bobsled Race – Heat #1 2:30 pm 4-man Bobsled Race – Heat #2 3:30 pm Awards: 4-man Bobsled -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
