Four European Championship titles and three World Cup winners still to be decided 

Sigulda (RWH) Only one Viessmann World Cup title has been decided ahead of the season finale this weekend in Sigulda, Latvia. Natalie Geisenberger took third in the BMW Sprint World Cup in Lillehammer to win the overall women’s World Cup. The 2014 Olympic Champion is now out in front of her fellow Germans Silke Kraushaar-Pielach and Tatjana Hüfner in the all-time rankings, both of whom have five victories apiece.

Fans of the doubles pairing of Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken will have to wait a while longer to celebrate the duo’s third overall victory after 2015 and 2017. They currently have a 163-point advantage but crashed out of the race in Lillehammer. Felix Loch has certainly kept things exciting. After claiming fifth and eighth in Lillehammer, he is just 45 points ahead of World Champion Wolfgang Kindl from Austria. The Viessmann World Cup and the BMW Sprint World Cup are on the schedule in Sigulda, and both races count towards the overall standings in the Viessmann World Cup. The overall winner of the Viessmann Team Relay World Cup presented by BMW is also yet to be decided.

The titles at the 9th European World Championships of the International Luge Federation (FIL) will be awarded using a race-in-race format on the track which hosted the 2003 and 2015 World Championships. There is still plenty of excitement in store with less than a fortnight to go until the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, Korea, from 9-25 February 2018.