Berchtesgaden (pps) The “luge year” was not concluded with the Viessmann Luge World Cup event in Park City last weekend. Before the year 2013 draws to an end, the schedule of the International Luge Federation (FIL), lists the Asia Cup in Nagano (Japan, December 27-29). Defending champion on the luge track of the 1998 Olympic Games is India’s Shiva Keshevan, who intends to compete in his fifth Olympic Games (1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010) in Sochi, Russia (February 7-23, 2014).

The lugers from Italy and Germany and Austria have to wait a bit for the Christmas break, too. Both luge federations will crown their national champions on December 21. While the German national championships will be carried out in Winterberg, Italy’s lugers are “granted asylum” in Koenigssee. The Austrian national championships will be carried out on December 22, 2013 in Innsbruck-Igls.