in contention but he was picked by local star luke out of plenty me but it was compatriot davida simone chello who out of the crowds posting the best time in the final round to clinch the title his first victory of any kind for almost seventy years. very yeah there's a morning but imagine that the first between love there. is i believe. i'd like to push. every. i mean. with the draw for you with. the phrase mark. so as the italian champion look forward to christmas seventy thousand euros better off the upper party really began up in the peaks of the italian alps colleen bray r.t. . and finally to such a where russia's speed skaters have been testing the ice and the organizers have been signing up new sponsors as russia prepares to host their first winter olympics michael cross has the latest. well it's only four hundred ten days now until the start of the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympic games and of course preparations are well underway the latest event to be held at the iceberg skating palace one of the specifically built venues for the games was the russian short track speed skating cha