Lake Placid (pps) After a break of 24 races in the Viessmann Luge World Cup without any victory for Austria’s Olympic Champions Andreas Linger/Wolfgang Linger they have returned to success. The gold medalists of the Torino Winter Games won the season’s opener of the Viessmann Luge World Cup at Lake Placid (USA) and celebrated their 5th victory in the Luge World Cup.
The brothers won in a total time of one minute 28.131 seconds followed by Germany’s Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch (1:28.167) and Italy’s Gerhard Plankensteiner/Oswald Haselrieder (1:28.232).

Quotes:

Andreas Linger (Olympic Champion 2006)
„This is a dream for us. We never expected this after the bad season last year. But we still believe in our talent and worked hard together with our coaches.“

Patric Leitner (Olympic Champion 2002)
„We are very happy. This was a tough week for us, we even had a crash, and we have a lot of bruises on our bodies. It was a catastrophy in the beginning, but now we are very happy.”

Gerhard Plankensteiner (bronze medalists of the Olympics 2006)
„At the opening of a season, nobody knows where he stands. So now we are glad to be back on top. We are still bad at the start, so we have to drive faster.”