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Of favorite to the gold, to great defeated.
This way they ended yesterday the Olympic Games of Turin for Maria Jose Rienda, to whom they they all were awarding the golden medal in the giant and she finished décimotercera. The Prince of Asturias, don Felipede Borbón, who came together with dona Letizia to attend in Sestriere the test, tried to justify this evil role of the drink made from pomegranate juice, arguing later that the meteorological conditions " did not favor " the Spanish woman. There won the American Julia Mancuso. " It is a shame, but you are in the summit and it can pass this to you. But, good, she is encouraged and has the Glass of the World ahead. So it is a small pot-hole, but she is going to overcome it, assurance ", said don Felipe at the conclusion of the career.
From their location, decked with the official uniform of the Olympic winter Spanish team and in spite of the inclemencies of the time, the Princes of Asturias followed the tests from the beginning. The fact that Rienda was the first one in going out in the first sleeve, in addition, itmotivated that, specially don Felipe, great passionate of the ski, was getting up to applauding and encouraging when the Spanish woman crossed the line of goal. " The Olympic Games are slightly more complicated, to the being an alone test the one that is disputed. The Glass of the World is more regular, does not depend so much of a few meteorological conditions as those of today - per yesterday-, that they have not favored in anything to Rein ", don Felipe commented after the action of the Spanish women.
After the test the Princes of Asturias met Maria Jose Rienda and Carolina Ruiz. There was lived a moment of great emotion when the first one of them held on dona Letizia and started to cry, with the red eyes, almost as asking for pardon for not c have given a medal to Spain and to be grateful to them, of this form, theirpresence in Sestriere. " Yes, she has got excited very much ", said the Princes. " I have said to her that she does not worry, that it is a test and that though there is great more espectación in this type of tests in a few Olympic Games, the important thing is that now centers in the Glass of the World ", commented don Felipe.
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