| Artificial Track News 29.12.10 | |
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| Holiday season with numerous anniversaries | |
| Huefner’s 25th win – Zoeggeler’s 50th success – 100th victory of Germany’s women Park City (pps) The holiday season in the post Olympic winter of the Viessmann Luge World Cup turned out to be a season of anniversaries. The recently renovated track in Winterberg (expenditures of about... [more] |  |
| General News 28.12.10 | |
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| Interview with Olympic champion Tatjana Huefner | |
| “I’m having a lot of fun right now“ Park City (pps) At first she was very proud of having won the Olympic gold medal, but then - being faced with expectations from the outside and under a growing internal pressure - she perceived all this as a burden rather than a blessing. In numerous... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 28.12.10 | |
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| Vigorous appeal of the world-wide best lugers | |
| “Great story – fit for Olympic Games” Berchtesgaden (pps) The most successfull lugers world-wide have launched a vigorous appeal for the inclusion of the Team Relay Event within the programme of the Olympic Winter Games. “I believe the Team Relay Event to be a very successful competition... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 19.12.10 | |
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| Armin Zoeggeler celebrates one victory after the other – number 52 in Park City | |
| Park City (pps) Armin Zoeggeler is stringing together one victory after the other. At the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Park City in the US state of Utah the 36 year-old already earned his third successive win. The track record of the two-time Olympic and five-time World champion thus boasts a... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 18.12.10 | |
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| Two Austrian doubles’ on top spot of the podium | |
| Park City pps) It is an absolute rarity in the Viessmann Luge World Cup: two doubles’ teams posted exactly the same time and thus shared the top spot of the podium in Park City. Austria’s Andreas Linger-Wolfgang Linger and compatriots Peter Penz-Georg Fischler achieved this feat. For Penz-Fischler... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 18.12.10 | |
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| Anniversary victory for Olympic gold medal winner Tatjana Huefner | |
| Park City (pps) Olympic champion Tatjana Huefner celebrated a special kind of anniversary at the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Park City in the US state of Utah – the 25th individual victory of her career. Posting her fourth season’s victory the 27 year-old German luger defeated team-mate Anke... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 17.12.10 | |
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| Double from the U.S.A. prevents triple victory of Russia | |
| Sigulda (pps) Jacob Hyrns/Andrew Sherk prevented at the first Junior’s World Cup of the season in Sigulda (Latvia) the triple victory of the Russian team. The young Americans won ahead of the two Russian teams with Alexandr Denisjev/Vladislav Antonov und Andrey Bogdanob/Andrey Medvedev. ... [more] |
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| General News 17.12.10 | |
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| FIL President Fendt visited luge start in Pyeongchang | |
| Pyeongchang (pps) Last weekend, Josef Fendt of Berchtesgaden, President of the International Luge Federation, FIL, visited the fist luge start in South Korea. Upon invitation of Korea’s Luge Federation, Fendt had travelled to Pyeongchang and discussed the development of the sport of luge in Korea... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 16.12.10 | |
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| Julia Clukey, Mortensen/Griffall and Ludwig are the Winners of Nation’s cup | |
| Park City (pps) The Winners of the nation’s cup at the Park City Viessmann Luge World Cup are Julia Cluckey, Matt Mortensen/Preston Griffall and Johannes Ludwig from Germany. Julia Cluckey banned Olympic Silver Medalist Nina Reithmayer on second place. Third Place went to Martina Kocher from... [more] | |
| General News 16.12.10 | |
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| Training results now available online | |
| New service offered by the International Luge Federation, FIL Winterberg (pps) The International Luge Federation, FIL, is now offering a new service on its homepage. With immediate effect, the results of the official training runs at the Viessmann Luge World Cup events are available at... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 16.12.10 | |
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| Last year’s winners in Park City: Zoeggeler, Kraushaar-Pielach and Oberstolz-Gruber | |
| Park City (pps) The third place of Swiss luger Stefan Hoehener at the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Park City in the 2006-2007 season came as a big surprise at that time. Winner then was Italy’s Armin Zoeggeler, with David Moeller of Germany in second place. Germany’s Silke Kraushaar-Pielach and... [more] |  |
| General News 16.12.10 | |
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| Turkey enters six juniors for the Training Week in Oberhof | |
| Oberhof (pps) Turkey is one of the youngest member federations of the International Luge Federation, FIL. And now they’re getting “into the act”. A total of six young Turkish lugers participated in the International Training Week prior to the FIL Luge Junior World Championships in Oberhof in the... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 16.12.10 | |
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| Schedule of Park City | |
| Park City (pps) For the fifth time in the history of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series Park City will be hosting a World Cup event. It was in the 2006-2007 season that the biggest of all winter sports resorts in the US state of Utah featured for the last time on the World Cup calendar of the... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 15.12.10 | |
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| Olympic champion Huefner ahead of anniversary victory | |
| Park City (pps) At the upcoming Viessmann Luge World Cup event in Park City in the US state of Utah, Olympic champion Tatjana Huefner might well celebrate a special jubilee. On the 2002 Olympic track the two-time World champion could earn the 25th individual victory of her career. It was at the end... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 14.12.10 | |
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| Zoeggeler and Loch – their paths crossed for the first time in Park City | |
| Now they meet under different circumstances than four years ago Park City (pps) In the past five years the one seemed to have a kind of subscription to win the overall Viessmann Luge World Cup rankings. And the other started collecting titles and medals at the big events like a duck takes... [more] |  |