Regan Lauscher and Nina Reithmayer will compete Park City (pps) The competition for Germany’s women lugers is getting more and more fierce: Though Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, Anke Wischnewski, Tatjana Huefner and Sylke Otto stormed to an impressive quadruple triumph and thus to their 65 th consecutive World Cup victory, this winning streak may be in jeopardy at the 2 nd Viessmann Luge World Cup at Park City. At least with regard to the entries, the competition is getting fierce. Both Nina Reithmayer from Austria and Canada’s Regan Lauscher, who achieved a 10 th place at the 2006 Olympic Games, will compete for the first time this season.

While Nina Reithmayer failed to compete at Cesana Pariol due to an injury of the ligaments, Regan Lauscher voluntarily refrained from travelling to Europe. The student of journalism intends to take it rather easy this season and will not participate in the 4 th Viessmann Luge World Cup in Nagano, Japan, either. Regan Lauscher scored Canada’s best World Cup result of all times when she took silver in Lake Placid two years ago. Nina Reithmayer’s best World Cup result is a third place in Altenberg in the 2004-05 season.

Close attention should be paid to the US women lugers on their home track in the US state of Utah. Especially Courtney Zablocki, who clocked the third-best time in the second run at Cesana, attracted great interest. “The US girls have been really fast, even though each demonstrated this in just one run,” explained Olympic bronze medallist Tatjana Huefner after having studied the result sheets from Cesana.