Declined offer to be Italy's flag-bearer with a heavy heart

Cesana (pps/February 2, 2010) Similar to the situation prior to the Olympic Games "back home" in Turin, Olympic luge champion Armin Zoeggeler again had a heavy heart when he declined to be Italy's flag-bearer during the... [more]

All five competitions days sold out to crowd-capacity

Berchtesgaden (pps/February 2, 2010) After a magnificent World Cup season the world of luge is now waiting for the absolute season's highlight, the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, with the three luge... [more]

Oberhof (pps/February 2, 2010) No happy-end for Bruno Banani: The only luge athlete from the South Seas failed to qualify for the Olympic luge competitions in Vancouver, Canada (February 12-28, 2010). His crash at the Nations Cup in Koenigssee at the beginning of the year proved to be his undoing.... [more]

Moscow (pps/January 22, 2010) Olympic runner-up Albert Demchenko will be heading the Russian team for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada (February 12-28, 2010). The Russian Federation will send a total of ten athletes - their full quota - to the Olympic luge events at the „Whistler... [more]

Whistler (pps/December 29, 2009) World Championship fourth-placed Alex Gough, Sam Edney, who already celebrated a fifth place this season at the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Calgary, and the two Moffat brothers Chris and Mike claimed the national Canadian titles on the future Olympic track in... [more]

Tonga’s first luger Banani earned 41st place at Nations Cup in Calgary

Calgary (pps/December 17, 2009) “Nations Cup Calgary, 41st place, Bruno Banani (TGA).“ - This is how it will go down in the annals of the “Luge Federation of the Kingdom of Tonga”. And November 20, 2009 marks the... [more]

Lillehammer (pps/December 17, 2009) World champion Erin Hamlin is heading the US luge team for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada (February 12-28, 2010). Apart from the 23-year old luger, who earned a third place at the Luge World Cup event in Lillehammer, Norway, the doubles' team with... [more]

Lillehammer (pps/December 17, 2009) Between 1996 and 1999 Christian Niccum and his former partner Matt McClain won three Luge World Cup events. However, the team never made it to the Olympic Games. For the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, the US Federation nominated Chris Thorpe-Gordy Sheer as... [more]

Seventh participation in store for Wilfried Huber - Georg Hackl wrote history at Olympic Games

Salzburg (pps/December 17, 2009) Wilfried Huber of Italy is on the verge of setting up a unique record in the history of Olympic Winter Games. The luger from South Tyrol, 1994 Olympic... [more]

53 Member Federations on four continents - Africa still uncharted territory"

Salzburg (pps/December 17, 2009) For the fist time at the 41st FIL Luge World Championships in Lake Placid six nations earned at least one medal. This is why FIL President Josef Fendt described this... [more]

Innsbruck (pps/December 17, 2009) Sometimes a whole story can be told by just taking a look at the raw data: During the International Training Week of the International Luge Federation, FIL, on the future Olympic track in Whistler a total of 125 sleds from 26 different countries carried out exactly... [more]

1983 World champion in Lake Placid – In 1998 in Calgary for USA

Calgary (pps/November 17, 2009) Actually, Canada would be something of a blind spot with regard to luge medal winners at Olympic Games or World Championships – if it were not for Miroslav Zajonc. The now 49-year old... [more]

Huefner and Zoeggeler on the hunt for records from way back when…

Calgary (pps/November 3, 2009) The upcoming luge season will kick-off in Canada – and it will conclude in Canada, too. Even though the curtains will be raised for the 33rd season in the Luge World Cup on November 20,... [more]

Berchtesgaden (pps/November 3, 2009) According to a decision by the International Olympic Committee, IOC, a total of 70 luge athletes (born in 1994-1995) will be eligible to compete at the first Olympic Youth Games to take place in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2010. As reported during the Executive Board... [more]

World champion Erin Hamlin: “You can’t let your guard down“

Whistler (pps/November 3, 2009) Referring to the future Olympic track at the “Whistler Sliding Park”, the most successful luger of all times goes as far as proclaiming a new era. “This track is faster than anything we’ve... [more]