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The Executive Board of the International Luge Federation, with the support of the Canadian Luge Association, has decided to cancel the 2021 World Championships scheduled for the Whistler Sliding Centre February 5-7. The FIL Executive Board will decide on an alternative venue in the coming weeks.

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4 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

The Executive Board of the International Luge Federation, with the support of the Canadian Luge Association, has decided to cancel the 2021 World Championships scheduled for the Whistler Sliding Centre February 5-7. The FIL Executive Board will decide on an alternative venue in the coming weeks.

Not surprising, well now I hope that the European part of the world cup at least will be able to go ahead.

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8 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Worst comes to the worst we get an all-German year.

That might be the most prudent solution. Season could be 8 world cups, 2 at each German track, and then the world championships in Innsbruck, or maybe even St. Mortiz (I knew the FIL doesn’t race there, which is why it would be cool). You could even do the 8 World cups in Germany, and then fly over to Pyeongchang for the World Championships, and then hit China for the test event (assuming the track is ready by February/March).

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FIL Executive Board has announced Königssee as the new host of the 2021 Luge World Championships. 

https://www.fil-luge.org/en/news/eberspaecher-title-sponsor-for-two-world-cup-winters-new-fil-schedule-2020-21-adopted

 

"In a FIL Executive Board meeting convened at short notice as a video conference, the changed seasonal calendar for the EBERSPÄCHER Luge World Cup was approved and the 50th FIL Luge World Championships 2021 were rescheduled.

 

Due to the worldwide corona pandemic, the FIL Executive Board had to relocate the 50th Luge World Championships from Whistler in Canada to Berchtesgaden/Königssee in Germany. The new date for the 2021 FIL World Championships is set for January 29 to 31, 2021".

 

New dates for the 2020/21 World Cup-season:

Spoiler

 

1st EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP INNSBRUCK (AUT)

NOVEMBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 29, 2020

 

2nd EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP ALTENBERG (GER)

DECEMBER 05 TO DECEMBER 06, 2020

 

3rd EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP OBERHOF (GER)

DECEMBER 12 TO DECEMBER 13, 2020

 

4th EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP WINTERBERG (GER)

DECEMBER 19 TO DECEMBER 20, 2020

 

5th EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP KÖNIGSSEE (GER)

02. JANUARY TO 03. JANUARY, 2021

 

6th EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP SIGULDA (LAT)

            52nd FIL-European Championships

09. JANUARY TO 10. JANUARY, 2021

 

7th EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP OBERHOF (GER) or

LAKE PLACID (USA)

JANUARY 16 TO JANUARY 17, 2021

 

8th EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP INNSBRUCK (AUT)

JANUARY 23 TO JANUARY 24, 2021

 

50 th FIL Luge World Championships

Berchtesgaden-Königssee (ger)

January 29 to January 31, 2021

 

9th EBERSPÄCHER WORLD CUP BEIJING (CHN)

FEBRUARY 20 TO FEBRUARY 21, 2021

 

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39 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

What did I tell you?  :yes  Surprised we’re going all the way to Latvia.

That we'd get an all-German year in the worst case scenario. Now 4 out of 9 EBERSPÄCHER World Cups are not in Germany, so you're not even close :p 

 

Although I'd rather have that last one either in Germany (or Austria or Latvia) or not at all. This dumb shit of having the whole season, then the world championships....and only three weeks later there's a more than likely entirely dead EBERSPÄCHER World Cup Final on some track in China.

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