Alex Gough to miss Lake Placid

Lake Placid (RWH) Canadian Alex Gough, who finished third at the season-opening Viessmann Luge World Cup in Innsbruck (AUT), will not compete in the second and third rounds of the race series in Lake Placid, NY and Park City, Utah so she can concentrate on her studies. The 28-year-old will return to action at the Viessmann Luge World Cup in her hometown of Calgary on December 18-19, 2015.

“I’m now a full-time student at the University of Calgary in Civil Engineering,” Gough explains on her website. “And by full-time I mean I’m taking the minimum 3 courses, which, coincidently, is the maximum I can handle while training and competing.” Canada’s head coach Wolfgang Staudinger describes the commitment of his star pupil, who finished fourth at the Sochi Olympics and is a two-time bronze medallist at the World Championships: “When other athletes head out to the Christmas market, Alex has her head buried in her books.”