Luge Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[evil betty 88]

I noticed that Wolfgang Kindl has the opportunity to be in both the singles and doubles events for Austria. Does anyone know if they have nominated their team yet?

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3 hours ago, evil betty said:

I noticed that Wolfgang Kindl has the opportunity to be in both the singles and doubles events for Austria. Does anyone know if they have nominated their team yet?

Luge team forms | Austrian Olympic Committee

Luge quota for Winter Games cut by one

 

Looks like he's doing both based on the articles above.

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The Irish Luge Federation has gone to CAS 

 

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The Irish Luge Federation (ILF) has filed an appeal against the International Luge Federation (FIL), challenging a FIL decision on 26 January 2026 concerning Luge athlete Ms Elsa Desmond (Ireland). The Appellant argues that the FIL unlawfully deprived the IFL of a qualifying place for the 2026 OWG by failing to allocate a remaining qualification place and unlawfully allocating qualification places to athletes granted Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN) status.

 

The ILF requests that CAS declare a failure to allocate them a qualifying place in violation of the FIL Qualification System. It also requests that CAS order the FIL to allocate a qualification place to the Olympic Federation of Ireland to enter an athlete into the women’s singles luge event for the 2026 OWG.

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from a CAS press release 

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9 hours ago, dodge said:

The Irish Luge Federation has gone to CAS 

 

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The Irish Luge Federation (ILF) has filed an appeal against the International Luge Federation (FIL), challenging a FIL decision on 26 January 2026 concerning Luge athlete Ms Elsa Desmond (Ireland). The Appellant argues that the FIL unlawfully deprived the IFL of a qualifying place for the 2026 OWG by failing to allocate a remaining qualification place and unlawfully allocating qualification places to athletes granted Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN) status.

 

The ILF requests that CAS declare a failure to allocate them a qualifying place in violation of the FIL Qualification System. It also requests that CAS order the FIL to allocate a qualification place to the Olympic Federation of Ireland to enter an athlete into the women’s singles luge event for the 2026 OWG.

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from a CAS press release 

Just a reminder, in case you don't know that CAS is in emergency pre- Games session for cases like these.  

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CAS has announced that the ad hoc division does not have jurisdiction to hear the appeal from Ireland as the decision to award the quota took place before January 27

 

All cases before the new body can only be attended to if after tha date