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Johannes Lochner in the ice channel
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Johannes Lochner's attack on Francesco Friedrich's home track was only half successful. The double Olympic champion was on Saturday with pusher Alexander Schüller in Altenberg after race one 0.16 seconds behind Lochner, but then turned up and in the end had 24 hundredths of a second ahead of the Berchtesgadener starting for Stuttgart, who drove with Christopher Weber. At the finish, Lochner then cleared up his mishap. “I saw almost nothing because I had problems with the visor. That doesn't really work on this track, ”said Lochner.
His helmet was too close to a heater before the second run, so the inner visor melted.
"I more or less fell down the track, so of course I didn't have a chance against Francesco, because everything was fogged up," said the Bavarian and emphasized: "I don't care about second place, the main thing is that we arrived on four runners, it would have can also end differently. "
According to Friedrich himself, “wasn't having a good day.
I was a bit sluggish, was too late on the steering ropes.
And the track is really hard, so the mistakes add up, "said the Saxon.
Third was the Russian Rostislav Gaitiukewitsch.
Christoph Hafer from BC Bad Feilnbach landed fifth with Matthias Sommer and thus posted the best result of the season so far.
In the monobob, Laura Nolte from Winterberg took third place on the podium for the third time this winter.
The victory went to the two-time Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries from the USA ahead of the Canadian Cynthia Appiah.
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