Brunneck (pps) On the occasion of its spring meeting held in Brunneck, Italy, the Executive Board of the International Luge Federation (FIL) has awarded the World Junior Championships on natural track to Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, where the championships for young talents will be staged in the upcoming winter. The 2006 European Championships on natural track had already been awarded to Umhausen in Austria at an earlier stage.

The FIL has also applied to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to include natural track luge in the program of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver; the application is still pending.