Lake Placid (pps) The artificially-iced bobsleigh and luge track at Verizon Sport Park in Lake Placid hosted the last Viessmann World Cup events in December 2001. The Bobsleigh and Luge Federation for Germany then only sent a B team to the 1980 Olympic city, while their Olympic candidates were training at La Plagne, France.

But despite being only second choice, Sonja Wiedemann, the 1999 World champion, was still good enough to save the German winning series in the women’s event. Wiedemann’s last World Cup victory was no. 28 of the winning series with now 44 World Cup victories in a row. Italy’s reigning World champion Armin Zoeggeler won the men’s single after just one heat due to snow, his Italian team-mates Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber the doubles.