Grand Prairie (ck) After very short New Year´s Eve parties the big luge family is on tour again. January 1st, the European nations are leaving for Grand Prairie in Canada, where the Natural Track Luge World Cup will be continued on Jan. 3rd and 4th, 2004. In Frankfurt the crowd will get together, from there the trip goes to Edmonton via Calgary. Finally a four hours drive will take the crowd to Grand Prairie which is a city of 30.000.
Unfortunately the strong Austrian team won´t be complete, announced the Austrian trainer Tomelitsch. Gerhard Pilz is suffering from a shoulder injury, the doubleseaters Herbert Kögl and Reinhard Beer could not get away from their jobs and Sandra Mariner is afraid of flying.