Berlin (pps) The Viessmann Luge World Cup is as exciting as never before in this pre-Olympic winter. Altogether six races in the women’s, men’s and doubles’ events have been decided so far at Altenberg, Germany, and Sigulda, Latvia. And there are six different victors. Germany’s Anke Wischnewski and Silke Kraushaar won the two women’s competitions; Austria’s Markus Kleinheinz and Russia’s Albert Demtchenko the men’s; Austria’s Wolfgang Linger-Andreas Linger and Germany’s André Florschuetz- Torsten Wustlich the doubles.

Even the domination of the German women who, since Sigulda, are undefeated in 50 successive World Cup events, seems no longer unimpeachable. Ukrainian Natalia Yakushenko who defeated the Germans in the Suzuki Challenge Cup at Sigulda, is convinced that the winning series will soon come to an end. „All officers dream of being promoted to General one day. That holds true for us lugers too. The German winning series will soon come to an end“, Natalia Yakushenko said at Sigulda.