Natalia Gart is set to be re-elected President of the Russian Luge
Federation - an organisation which narrowly avoiding being expelled
from the International Luge Federation earlier his month - un-opposed.
OBERHOF, Germany (AP) Johannes Ludwig of Germany clinched his first World Cup men’s overall season championship Saturday, becoming the fourth different slider to win the crown in the last four seasons.
Felix Loch wraps up seventh World Cup luge season title
This year, he is enjoying perhaps the most dominant season in men s luge history.
Loch is the World Cup men s overall champion for the seventh time, clinching the title Saturday with his ninth win in 10 races this season. He leads German teammate Johannes Ludwig by 320 points with two races remaining.
If Loch wins both World Cup luge races are worth 100 points for winners, 85 points for runners-up he would be assured of breaking his own record for the biggest seasonlong points margin. He topped Germany s Andi Langenhan by 330 points on the way to the 2014-15 championship.
Austria wins doubles luge title, Britcher medals for US
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IGLS, Austria (AP) Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller of Austria clinched the World Cup luge doubles overall championship Sunday, while Natalie Geisenberger of Germany moved even closer to what could be her eighth women’s season-long title.
It also was a big day for USA Luge: Summer Britcher gave the Americans their first World Cup medal of the season, grabbing a bronze in the women’s race.
Steu and Koller finished second in a sprint race, giving them enough points to earn the crown and become the first non-German sled to win the doubles season title since fellow Austrians Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger won the trophy nine seasons ago.