World Champions on the verge of winning overall Viessmann Luge World Cup
Lake Placid (pps) Their gold medals were hardly stowed away before the new World Champions hit the road again on the way to their next goals: Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger, Felix Loch and Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt are all on the verge of winning the overall Viessmann Luge World Cup. At the 44th World Championships of the International Luge Federation (FIL) in Whistler, Canada, these four also earned the gold medal in the Team Relay event. At the upcoming eighth stop of the World Cup series in Lake Placid in the U.S. state of New York (February 8-9, 2013), the four lugers could well “put things straight”.
Geisenberger has a winning margin of 145 points; Loch’s “cushion” amounts to 102 points and with a winning margin of 75 points, Wendl-Arlt have a comfortable advantage over their rivals. With a victory in their respective disciplines in Lake Placid, the new World Champions, Geisenberger and Loch, will “prematurely” become overall World Cup winners. Should Wendl-Arlt win, they still need to wait for the result of compatriots Toni Eggert-Sascha Benecken. It is only with a second-place finish that the European Champions and silver medalists of the Worlds would still have a small chance to capture the overall crown at the final of the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Sochi, Russia, on February 24-25.
