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Luge FIL World Cup 2025 - 2026

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Bump for the Luge World Cup starting this weekend, starting at Winterberg rather than Igls for technical reasons (lazy Austrians :p).   Since we are now going to Winterberg twice this season, this particular weekend will not count towards Olympic Quals, as discussed already,

 

There has been some changes for us oldsters, so maybe a guide for beginners as well.

 

Broadcasting 

Good and perhaps not so good news. There is a new deal with Discovery/Eurosport. All three days of the weekend are now being covered including the Friday races which usually are not shown.  :clap:  Unfortunately, not clear whether the FTA option via YouTube and/or the FIL Page will still exist, or will be geo-blocked.  :mumble:Hopefully also they will stick with the excellent commentary format of one pro comms person on-site paired with a willing volunteer from the non-competing athletes.  

 

Race formats

There are four sets of races now.

 

Nations Cup on Friday - the Qualifying races for the Saturday / Sunday World Cup.  Top sleds are pre-qualified so don't take part here.  

 

Mixed Races on Friday - These races are for the smaller nations who don't have large enough teams to participate in the Team Relays.  Nations can either compete as a pair or as single nation partnerships along the lines of old historic friendships like :GBR/:IRL, :GRE/:TUR, :IND/:PAK, :IVB/:ISV etc.

World Cup Races on Saturday and Sunday - The standard four formats of Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles

 

Team Relay on Sunday - Always exciting relays races in which the big nations run one team from each of the WC formats.  Unlike every other form of Winter Sports team event, this is the one in which it is quite normal for even the biggest and best teams to seriously mess up & either disqualify themselves or have some kind of significant time delay.  

 

Sprint races - Everyone hates them so hopefully they have been killed. 

 

Beer

The race track at Winterberg is sponsored by a brewery and in the past winners have been given very large glasses of the product!  Unfortunately, this is the alcohol-free version of the beer. :sick:

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Confirmation about the broadcasting rights.   If I'm reading it right, for most of Europe it will now be exclusive to Discovery/Eurosport or whatever brand they use.  

 

For outside Europe, it's on YouTube. For Planet VPN....well, let us know if you find out.

 

fil-taker-list-25-26-winterberg-1.pdf

 

Also, should have mentioned above that the Nations Cup races today are just over one leg, whereas there are two runs in each of the World Cup races.  

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On 12/5/2025 at 11:10 AM, Grassmarket said:

Confirmation about the broadcasting rights.   If I'm reading it right, for most of Europe it will now be exclusive to Discovery/Eurosport or whatever brand they use.  

 

For outside Europe, it's on YouTube. For Planet VPN....well, let us know if you find out.

 

fil-taker-list-25-26-winterberg-1.pdf

 

Also, should have mentioned above that the Nations Cup races today are just over one leg, whereas there are two runs in each of the World Cup races.  

If this was 6-7 years ago I would have said "Fantastic, I will have luge on my Eurosport again".

 

But after a couple of seasons of watching live and whenever I wanted on free YouTube, to go back to sporadic random runs being shown and most likely on delays is going to be frustrating :mad: Because Eurosport is not going to prioritize luge at all for live broadcasts.

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37 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

If this was 6-7 years ago I would have said "Fantastic, I will have luge on my Eurosport again".

 

But after a couple of seasons of watching live and whenever I wanted on free YouTube, to go back to sporadic random runs being shown and most likely on delays is going to be frustrating :mad: Because Eurosport is not going to prioritize luge at all for live broadcasts.

And the commentators are not as good, at least in English.

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