Luge FIL World Cup 2019 - 2020

[dcro 10,210]

Track looks like a water slide today though.

[dcro 10,210]

Mandziy still leads after starting first.

 

Week after week, it seems like these Ukrainian athletes have zero control over their own destiny.

[dcro 10,210]

So... Mandziy is 2nd, Sochowicz 3rd, Cretu 5th, Gulfer 7th, Felderer 8th after the first run.

 

Aside from Lillehammer and North America, all other races from this luge season have been as comical as this.

[phelps 7,793]

  On 2/1/2020 at 10:22 AM, dcro said:

So... Mandziy is 2nd, Sochowicz 3rd, Cretu 5th, Gulfer 7th, Felderer 8th after the first run.

 

Aside from Lillehammer and North America, all other races from this luge season have been as comical as this.

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imagine if they cancel the 2nd run and take this result as the final ranking...

[dcro 10,210]

Loch is once again clearly trying to cool his runners before getting off the sled...

[dcro 10,210]

Horrific crash for the Chinese doubles team. One of the worst luge crashes I've seen. Bottom man was knocked unconscious.

[Olympian1010 8,068]

  On 2/1/2020 at 9:18 AM, dcro said:

Oberhof

 

Don't care about the German domination. If I ever visit WC luge competition - it shall be Oberhof.

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Definitely recommend seeing sliding in person if you ever get the chance. I’ve been to both Whistler (awesome track, great viewing) and Park City (a bit older, too shades too often, still awesome). There’s absolutely nothing like seeing people slide past you in person.

[dcro 10,210]

Poland beats Kazakhstan by 28 seconds.

[heywoodu 15,333]

Did anyone else get Arturs Darznieks singing "It's raining man, hallelujah" during Stakhiv/Lysetskiy's run in the relay?  

 

He is such an awesome guest commentator, I wish he did every race in which he isn't racing himself.

 

Last week he dropped a bombshell about Sics and Sics: "Did you know they are brothers?"  

Edited February 3, 2020 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

Austrian team will boycott the Winterberg stage. Apparently the track's profile was damaged in stormy mild weather conditions this week, what caused several nasty crashes in training.

 

FIL must be run by a bunch of idiots at this point. Every season they put this horrid Winterberg track at the most inappropraite point of the season. Granted, this year there was no Winter in Europe, but nevertheless, Winterberg should only ever be scheduled in mid-January. That's it.