| General News 29.11.11 | |
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| Equally excellent TV ratings in Austria | |
| Vienna (pps) The season opener of the Viessmann Luge World Cup scored excellent TV ratings not only in Germany. The TV viewing figures were equally good in Austria. The men’s singles race generated a market share of 36 percent with the public Austrian TV station (ORF 1) – an even higher share than... [more] | |
| General News 28.11.11 | |
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| Season opener of the Viessmann Luge World Cup with excellent TV ratings | |
| 1.76 million TV spectators saw victory of Felix Loch Munich (pps) The first event of the new season in the Viessmann Luge World Cup series generated excellent TV ratings for Germany’s public TV station ARD. About 1.76 million spectators followed the decision in the men’s singles and the... [more] | |
| General News 28.11.11 | |
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| Viessmann remains main FIL sponsor | |
| Eberspaecher continues for another two years until 2014 Allendorf (pps) The probably longest and most successful partnership in winter sports will be continued. The heating manufacturer Viessmann will pursue its commitment as main sponsor of the International Luge Federation, FIL, until... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 27.11.11 | |
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| Team Canada surprisingly wins Team Relay Event | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Canada is the surprise winner of the Viessmann Team Relay Event presented by INTERSPORT at the season opener of the World Cup series in Innsbruck-Igls. The team of coach Wolfgang Staudinger with Alex Gough, Sam Edney and Tristan Walker-Justin Snith defeated top favourites... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 27.11.11 | |
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| Felix Loch again with victory at the first event of the World Cup season | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Germany’s Olympic champion Felix Loch started into the new season of the Viessman Luge World Cup series celebrating his fifth individual victory. At the season opener in Innsbruck-Igls the two-time World champion thus repeated last year’s success. Setting up track... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 26.11.11 | |
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| Victory for Penz-Fischler in front of home-crowd | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) “Local heroes“ Peter Penz-Georg Fischler celebrated their second victory in the Viessmann Luge World Cup series at the season opener on their home-track in Innsbruck-Igls. With a winning margin of 0.076 seconds the former junior World champions defeated Russia’s Vladislav... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 26.11.11 | |
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| Tatjana Huefner with a great start into the season | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Competing in the first event of the new luge season Tatjana Huefer picks up where she left off last winter: The Olympic and three-time World champion won the season opener of the 2011-2012 Viessmann Luge World Cup series on the Olympic track in Innsbruck-Igls. Celebrating her... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 25.11.11 | |
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| Nation’s Cup at Innsbruck-Igls | |
| Erin Hamlin, Ludwig and Penz/Fischer the Winners Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Erin Hamlin (USA) Johannes Ludwig (GER) and Austria’s Local Heroes Peter Penz/Georg Fischler are the names of the first winners of the new loge season 2011/2012. At the nation’s cup, the qualification race for the... [more] |
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| General News 25.11.11 | |
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| Intersport signs official FIL Luge sponsorship agreement with Infront | |
| Comprehensive agreement extends the sporting goods retailers exposure in valuable European winter sport target markets Zug, Berne, Switzerland / Salzburg, Austria, 25 November 2011 - Infront Sports & Media has signed an agreement with Intersport to become an Official Sponsor of the... [more] |  |
| General News 24.11.11 | |
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| Linger-Linger with a new sponsor | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) For Andreas and Wolfgang Linger, their numerous victories are paying off – in the truest sense of the word. The current World doubles’ champions are heading into the new season with the assistance of a new main sponsor. With immediate effect, the “Tyrolean Assurances” (Tiroler... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 24.11.11 | |
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| Anniversary in Innsbruck-Igls | |
| Loch, Huefner and Linger-Linger last year’s winners Innsbruck-Igls (pps) The 1964 and 1976 Olympic luge track in Innsbruck-Igls will not only host the season opener of the 35th World Cup series but will also carry out its 30th Viessmann Luge World Cup event. Last winter, the winners on... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 24.11.11 | |
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| Schedule of Innsbruck-Igls | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Next weekened, the first Viessmann Luge World Cup event will kick off in Innsbruck-Igls (Austria). On Saturday, November 26 (10:10 hrs local time) the decision in the women’s singles will be the first competition, followed by the doubles’ at 12:50 hrs. On Sunday (November 27),... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 24.11.11 | |
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| Emily Sweeney and Kate Hansen repeat their double success | |
| Park City (pps) At the season’s second stop of the Junior World Cup series in Park City in the US State of Utah, the young luge talents of host USA again dominated the event. In the women’s singles, Emily Sweeney and Kate Hansen repeated their double success from the season’s start. This time... [more] |  |
| General News 23.11.11 | |
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| Press conference of the Austrian Luge Federation, ÖRV | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Prior to the season’s opener of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series on the 1964 and 1976 Olympic luge track in Innsbruck-Igls, Austria’s Luge Federation, ÖRV, invites all interested media representatives to a press conference at the “Olympia Golf Café” (Badhausstraße 60b in... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 23.11.11 | |
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| New luge season kicks off in Innsbruck-Igls | |
| Tatjana Huefner and Armin Zoeggeler ahead of new records Berchtesgaden (pps) Two Olympic victories, six World Championship titles, ten overall wins as well as 54 individual victories in the Viessmann Luge World Cup – the exceptionally gifted Armin Zoeggeler, on Italy’s junior luge team... [more] |  |