Luge FIL World Cup 2017 - 2018

[heywoodu 15,145]

I'm watching yesterday's sprints now, but I still just don't get the point 

 

Why was this ever added? What's the 'extra' of it? It's exactly the same, but shorter. Why? It's not even really a sprint when it's a 'flying start', but the start is of course still just as important to build speed. After all this time I still don't get it. 

[NearPup 3,051]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

I'm watching yesterday's sprints now, but I still just don't get the point 

 

Why was this ever added? What's the 'extra' of it? It's exactly the same, but shorter. Why? It's not even really a sprint when it's a 'flying start', but the start is of course still just as important to build speed. After all this time I still don't get it. 

The point is to try to add three new events at the Olympics xD

[dcro 10,210]

Luge just wants to get in on having multiple (almost) same events at the Olympics, like a lot of other winter sports already do (ski jumping, snowboarding, nordic combined...).

Edited November 27, 2017 by dcro

[konig 1,504]

I dont know why the results of the nations cup is missing in the portal results 

[dcro 10,210]

Geez, German doubles team hits the wall hard and yet they increase their advantage over Austrians on the next sector.

[hckošice 14,835]

Just read something about the Women´s Doubles event to be introduced and contested in Beijing 2022. Apparently the FIL vicepresident Harald Steyer confirmed that yesterday to DPA agency . https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/308412/na-zoh-2022-v-pekingu-prvykrat-aj-zenske-dvojsedadlove-sane/

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 hour ago, hckosice said:

Just read something about the Women´s Doubles event to be introduced and contested in Beijing 2022. Apparently the FIL vicepresident Harald Steyer confirmed that yesterday to DPA agency . https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/308412/na-zoh-2022-v-pekingu-prvykrat-aj-zenske-dvojsedadlove-sane/

For fuck's sake, bunch of absolute idiots 

[dcro 10,210]

I imagine they want both women's doubles and women's sprint doubles. Because why not?

 

We might as well have 9 luge events in Beijing.

[phelps 7,678]

22 minutes ago, dcro said:

I imagine they want both women's doubles and women's sprint doubles. Because why not?

 

We might as well have 9 luge events in Beijing.

 

and 3 Natural Luge events, too (if the IOC agrees with FIL, of course)...

[heywoodu 15,145]

10 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

and 3 Natural Luge events, too (if the IOC agrees with FIL, of course)...

At least natural luge is something rather different, but all those sprint things...and the basically non-existing women's doubles...dear lord