First women's race of the season...and not encouraging results at all...
despite a promising first run, at the end it was the usual German clean sweep, with Natalie Geisenberger on top thanks to Tatjana Hufner's big mistake in the first part (then she had the best time in the second run, but it wasn't enough to overtake Geisenberger and Eitberger, who also made a big mistake in the first run, but not as big as Hufner's)...
best of the rest, Alex Gough (CAN) in 4th place...
Erin Hamlin (USA) was second after the first run, but made a capital mistake in the second part and finished 21st...
Russians, Austrians and Latvians were never a factor...
for Italy, great 6th place finish for Andrea Voetter, finally landing in an area of the rankings where she should have come years ago...
and very good 15th and 17th final position respectively for the 16-year youngsters Nina Zoeggeler and Verena Hofer, both having 2 solid runs without any notable mistake...
now let's wait and see what happens in the men's doubles, where after the first run we have the usual suspects Eggert/Benecken (GER) and Wendl/Arlt (GER) in 1st and 3rd position...
but we also have a surprising provisional second-place pair, the Italians Rieder/Rastner, who are only 33/1000 of a second far away from the top of the ranking...
home heroes Penz/Fischler are 4th at the moment, but quite far behind the medal positions (especially on a short track like Igls)...
fingers crossed for our guys...