Lake Placid (pps) After a six-year long break Lake Placid (USA) will host the penultimate Viessmann Luge World Cup of the 2012-2013 season on the second weekend in February. The winter sports resort in the U.S. state of New York, already host of the 1932 and 1980 Olympic Winter Games, will thus make it a round dozen World Cup events. Lake Placid organized its last Viessmann Luge World Cup event in the 2007-2008 season. The artificially refrigerated track at Mount Van Hoevenberg, specifically constructed for the 2000 “Goodwill Games”, hosted the 41st World Championships of the International Luge Federation (FIL) in 2009. While luge events were not part of the 1932 Olympic Games, the gold medal winners of the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid were Vera Sozulia (former USSR) as well as Bernhard Glass and the doubles team of Hans Rinn-Norbert Hahn (all of the former GDR). At the 1983 World Championships, at that time still on the old track, Steffi Martin and the team of Joerg Hoffmann-Jochen Pietzch (all former GDR) won the titles in the women’s singles and doubles event. The gold medal in the men’s singles went to Miroslav Zajonc, now the U.S. coach, who won the first medal for Canada in this discipline. At the 2009 Worlds U.S. luger Erin Hamlin created a sensation in front of a home crowd when she claimed the first U.S. gold medal in the women’s singles. Germany’s Felix Loch earned his second successive title while the Italian doubles team with Gerhard Plankensteiner and Oswald Haselrieder took the first gold medal for their country after a 19-year long “drought”.