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12/06 12:50 CST Germany takes 5 medals, Austria takes 4 in opening day of luge
World Cup racing
Germany takes 5 medals, Austria takes 4 in opening day of luge World Cup racing
WINTERBERG, Germany (AP) --- Germany and Austria swept all nine available
medals Saturday in the opening World Cup luge races of the season.
Felix Loch won the men's singles race for Germany by posting the fastest time
in both heats, edging Austria's Jonas Mueller by about one-tenth of a second.
Max Langenhan of Germany was third.
Germany also grabbed gold and bronze in women's doubles, with Jessica Rosenthal
and Cheyenne Rosenthal getting the win. Austria's Selina Egle and Lara Kipp
were second, while Germany's Dajana Eitberger and Magdalena Matschina were
third.
Austria got the win in men's doubles, with Juri Gatt and Riccardo Schoepf
topping Germany's Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt. Yannick Mueller and Armin
Frauscher were third for Austria.
The World Cup for luge continues Sunday with women's singles and a team relay.
USA Luge is not competing this weekend, opting instead to stay home and prepare
for World Cups later this month on their tracks in Park City, Utah, and Lake
Placid, New York. This weekend's races are not part of the Olympic qualifying
system, another reason why the Americans opted to pass.
The World Cup bobsled and skeleton circuits are taking the weekend off before
resuming competition next week in Lillehammer, Norway.
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