Papert and Berger provisional leaders in Daone
Ines Papert and Harald Berger are the provisional leaders of the Ice World Cup second stage in Valle Daone 2003
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| A spectacular Semi-Final! Valle di Daone showed its true colours today with a series of desperate routes and exciting moves - such as the full-on dyno to a hanging ice cylinder in the men's second route! Harry Berger, Stephane Husson, Jack Muller and Dimitri Bychkov all reached this dyno but, unsurprisingly, no athlete managed to match the top. To everyone's surprise though Dimitri did not make it through to tomorrrow's final; last week's winner in Pitztal failed to make significant headway on the second route and, despite a top, was the first to be excluded from the final. Harry Berger, impeccable as usual with two tops and a final zone, was followed closely by reigning World Champion Evgeny Kryvosheytsev, while Alexei Tomilov impressed all with his determination to place provisional third, ahead of Samuel Anthamatten. If the men's competition was hard, the women's was even harder! But, to quote Ines Papert, they were all do-able. And she was the first to demonstrate this, getting stylishly close to topping out on all three. Petra Muller pulled off a fine performance to place provisional second, while Abby Watkins' fought over top on the third route secured her provisional third. Ksenia Sdobnikova, Kirsten Buchmann and Maria Shabalina all followed close behind, with at least one top each. Tomorrow's starting list is completed by Natalia Koulikova and Go Misun - the latter climbed somewhat underpar but nevertheless pulled out all the stops. What impressed most was how all athletes fought right to the bitter end. Sunday's Final will no doubt be quite some battle...  Portfolio Semifinal
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