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Martins Dukurs came back strongly in the second run to pass his brother Tomass, and win the fifth round of the FIBT Skeleton World Cup by 0.26 seconds on Friday (10th January), the second successive one-two finish for the Latvian siblings - Matt Antoine of the United States finished third, his third medal of the season and cementing his position as another podium favourite for next month's Sochi Winter Olympics.

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Round five of the bobsleigh skeleton World Cup took place on Friday, with many keen to impress ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

Matt Antoine of the USA clocked an early time of two minutes, 19.87 seconds was 0.11 seconds faster than previous leader Alexander Tretiakov of Russia giving the American the overall lead.

However Latvian Martins Dukurs then recorded a time two minutes, 19.18 seconds, 0.69 seconds faster than Antoine.

So the pressure was on elder brother Tomass Dukurs, but his overall time of 2:19.44 was 0.26 slower than his sibling.

It was Martins' third win in five races this season - as he leapfrogged Tretiakov for the overall World Cup points lead on 1045 points, just eight in front of the Russian.

The bobsleigh event is certainly shaping up to be an exciting feature at the Sochi Olympic Games.