From Altenberg, GER
(Dec. 4, 2020) – Finally something great has come out of the year 2020! On Friday morning the International Luge Federation announced that the season finale for the Eberspächer World Cup will be held on the historic track in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
The race was originally scheduled for the Olympic track in Yanqing, China, on February 19-21 but the FIL (along with the International Olympic Committee and the Beijing 2022 committee) decided to move the race to autumn of 2021 due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns.
The race will put the experienced World Cup athletes with no track experience against their younger counterparts who may have slid on the Swiss track. Though it’s been around 20 years since the FIL raced in St. Moritz at the senior level, FIL Junior athletes raced both a Junior World Cup race in February of 2019 and during the 2020 Youth Olympic Games, with a few current World Cup athletes taking part. Cheyenne Rosenthal, Nina Zöggler, Mortiz Bollmann, Yannick Müller, the team of Hannes Orlamünder & Paul Gubitz and others have raced either in the final Junior World Cup or YOG in St. Moritz.
In 2000, the FIL World Championships were held in St. Moritz, with Germany winning all but three available medals. Italy, the United States, and Austria won the other three.
