Luge FIL World Cup 2017 - 2018

[phelps 6,785]

well, nothing changed in the second run of the men's doubles (despite a couple of mistakes by Wendl/Arlt and Penz/Fischler...

 

so, it was another German win (2 out of 2, today) thanks to Eggert/Benecken...and Germany took also the bronze medal with Wendl/Arlt, leaving the Silver medal won by Rieder/Rastner (ITA) as the only podium place for all the rest of the world...

 

hopefully, tomorrow we won't see such a boring domination by Germany...

[Gianlu33 3,570]

Nice results for us but i want see our team on the other venues.. it's easy on our track  

[Gianlu33 3,570]

And it's time for the luge! 

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[heywoodu 13,540]

That was not very good from Rieder 

[dcro 10,179]

Repilov

[Gianlu33 3,570]

Ludwig.. c'mon.. What bad run for him, it seems very very slow

[heywoodu 13,540]

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

Ludwig.. c'mon.. What bad run for him, it seems very very slow

Well yeah, hanging halfway out of your sled in the last curve is not the fastest way of getting to the finish  

[heywoodu 13,540]

How did Langenhan do that? 

[Gianlu33 3,570]

Dominiiiiiik Fishnallerr!

 

[phelps 6,785]

2 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

Dominiiiiiik Fishnallerr!

 

 

"non dire gatto..." and you know the remaining part...

 

awful second run by D-Fisch, going down in the final ranking from 1st to 6th...

at least, the final win didn't go to a German luger, since it was the Russian Pavlichenko to get the highest place on the podium...

second was the local hero and reigning World Champion, Wolfgang Kindl, after a very good comeback and 3rd, despite 2 ordinary runs, was Felix Loch, who doesn't seem to have started the season with his best shape (and sled)...

for Italy, the second best in the team was Kevin Fischnaller; decent 8th place at the end of the day for him...

not so good, on the other hand, Emanuel Rieder and Theo Gruber's races (only 21st and 18th, respectively)...

to be honest, I expected a lot more from our guys on this track, where they train very often...

 

p.s. I still think that a day race can't be scheduled in Igls at this time of the year...or the competitions are held after 9 p.m. or this entire event should just be scheduled for late December/early January...

right now, we can only watch unfair and "crazy" races...and this is not good for the sport and respectful for the athletes...

 

however...now, let's see how the team relay go...