| Artificial Track News 29.11.12 | |
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| YOG winner Miriam Kastlunger to take a World Cup break until the final | |
| Innsbruck (pps) The new Viessmann Luge World Cup season has hardly started but for the time being it is already over for Austria’s Miriam Kastlunger. The gold medal winner of the first Youth Olympic Games will probably return to the season’s final of the Viessmann Luge World Cup on the future... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 29.11.12 | |
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| Schedule of Koenigssee | |
| Koenigssee (pps) Because Koenigssee will replace Cesana, it will be the first time that the oldest artificially refrigerated track in the world will not see a Viessmann Luge World Cup Team Relay Event. The schedule in Cesana did not include a Team Relay Event. The World Cup in Koenigssee will start... [more] | |
| General News 29.11.12 | |
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| Media Guide to be downloaded from FIL website | |
| Berchtesgaden (pps) The Media Guide of the International Luge Federation (FIL) for the 2012-2013 season can now be downloaded from the FIL website. Click here to download: http://www.fil-luge.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Reglement/FIL_Media-Guide-2012-2013.pdf [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 28.11.12 | |
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| Miriam Kastlunger, Ekatarina Baturina and Sandra Robatscher | |
| It’s not only Aileen Frisch who brings about a fresh breeze Igls (pps) It wasn’t only Aileen Frisch who brought about a fresh breeze at the first Viessmann Luge World Cup event in Innsbruck-Igls. In the wake of Germany’s World junior champion, who earned a fifth-place finish at her very... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 28.11.12 | |
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| Eight-year long wait to claim her second victory | |
| Anke Wischnewski: “I’m a kind of haven of peace” Koenigssee (pps) Eight long years or a total of 67 Viessmann Luge World events – that is how long she had to wait for the day to come. And the day finally came in Innsbruck-Igls on November 24, 2012. For the second time after the World Cup... [more] |  |
| Natural Track News 27.11.12 | |
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| Good spirit at the International Instructor Course | |
| Salzburg (ck) – 28 lectures in alternating German or English language within three days was absorbed by the participants of the international Instructor Course. Between lectures and in the evenings new friends were made, experiences and stories exchanged and plans made for the future of natural... [more] |  |
| General News 26.11.12 | |
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| Annual press conference with FIL President Fendt in Koenigssee | |
| Koenigssee (pps) The traditional annual press conference with the President of the International Luge Federation (FIL), Josef Fendt of Berchtesgaden, will be staged in the press center at the luge track in Koenigssee on November 30, 2012 (11:00 hrs/local time). Topics on the agenda are, among... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 25.11.12 | |
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| Germany wins Team Relay Event ahead of Canada and Italy | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) It comes as no surprise: World and defending World Cup champion Germany claimed the victory in the Team Relay Event. At the season-opener of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series in Innsbruck-Igls, the German quartet with Anke Wischnewski, David Moeller and Tobias Wendl-Tobias... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 25.11.12 | |
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| 11th individual victory for Olympic champion Felix Loch | |
| David Moeller on second place ahead of Johannes Ludwig
Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Befitting his status as defending World Cup champion, Felix Loch of Germany started into the pre-Olympic season with a victory. At the season-opener of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series in... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 24.11.12 | |
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| Host Austria on third and fourth place | |
| German double victory in the doubles event
Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Of all the luge tracks it was the one “at home” of their toughest opponents that the German doubles teams celebrated a double victory. At the season-opener of the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Innsbruck-Igls Tobias... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 24.11.12 | |
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| Natalie Geisenberger on second place ahead of Alex Gough | |
| After eight years another Viessmann Luge World Cup victory for Anke
Wischnewski
Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Anke Wischnewski is the name of the season’s first World Cup winner. After an eight year-long “draught” the 34-year old luger from Germany celebrated her first top-podium... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 23.11.12 | |
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| Two Canadian Victories at the Nationscup | |
| Alex Gough and Walker Snith in front Innsbruck-Igls (pps) The Nationscup at the season’s opener of Viessmann Luge World Cup at Igls/Austria ended with two Canadian and one Latvian Victories. Alex Gough Bronze Medalist of the 2011 World Championships won with the new track record of40.210... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 22.11.12 | |
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| 31st World Cup in Innsbruck-Igls | |
| Loch, Huefner and Penz-Fischler last year’s winners Innsbruck-Igls (pps) The 1964 and 1976 Olympic track in Innsbruck-Igls will not only kick off the new luge season on November 24-25, 2012 but will stage its 31st Viessmann Luge World Cup event. Last winter, the winners on the... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 21.11.12 | |
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| Schedule of Innsbruck-Igls | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) The season’s opener of the 2012-2013 Viessmann Luge World Cup season is hosted by Innsbruck-Igls. On Saturday, November 24 (10:00 hrs local time) the decision the in the women’s singles will be the first competition, followed by the doubles at 12:30 hrs. On Sunday (November... [more] |  |
| General News 21.11.12 | |
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| Austrian Luge Federation (ÖRV) invites to a press conference | |
| Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Austria’s Luge Federation (ÖRV) invites all interested media representatives to a press conference prior to the season’s opener of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series on the 1964 and 1976 Olympic luge track in Innsbruck-Igls. On Friday (November 23 / at 12:00 hrs local time),... [more] |  |