Germany poised for 2-man bobsled sweep, with Friedrich and Lochner set to fight for gold
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Germany poised for 2-man bobsled sweep, with Friedrich and Lochner set to fight for gold

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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — German teammates Francesco Friedrich and Johannes Lochner have separated themselves from the pack going into the final two-man run at the world bobsled championships. Friedrich and Alexander Schüller lead Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer by 0.06 seconds going into the fourth and final heat, after the two drivers turned in the two fastest competitive runs in Mount Van Hoevenberg history in their third heats on Sunday morning. Lochner got down in 54.52 seconds, cutting Friedrich’s overall lead going into the final heat to 0.06 seconds. There are only eight races — the German stars actually tied for the win in one of those events, and through 19 competitive two-man runs this season Friedrich’s two-man sled is a mere 1.1 seconds faster than Lochner’s.

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Germans hold 1-2-3 spots midway through 2-man world bobsled championship, with US in medal hunt
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Germans hold 1-2-3 spots midway through 2-man world bobsled championship, with US in medal hunt

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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Take the season’s biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsled, skeleton and luge, meaning either the Olympics or the world championships, and there have been 59 instances of sliders from one place sweeping the podium. The Germans are poised to do it again in the two-man world bobsled championships at snowy, windy and blustery Lake …

Langenhan and Wendl-Arlt win World Cup luge titles. USA Luge finishes the season with a relay bronze
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Langenhan and Wendl-Arlt win World Cup luge titles. USA Luge finishes the season with a relay bronze

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YANQING, China — Max Langenhan of Germany won the luge World Cup men’s singles overall championship on Sunday for the third consecutive year, while the veteran German men’s doubles pairing of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt clinched the season-long crown for the sixth time. Both finished off those titles with victories on the final day of the schedule — and …

Kindl makes luge history with two wins. Friedrich and Buckwitz clinch bobsled season titles
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Kindl makes luge history with two wins. Friedrich and Buckwitz clinch bobsled season titles

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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Wolfgang Kindl of Austria started his day with a luge World Cup doubles win. Kindl became the first slider in 32 years to win a men’s singles and doubles race in the same World Cup weekend — and he did it two hours apart. Max Langenhan of Germany was fourth and remained in the World Cup …

Lochner gets first 4-man bobsled win of the season, Germany sweeps 2-woman World Cup medals
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Lochner gets first 4-man bobsled win of the season, Germany sweeps 2-woman World Cup medals

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LILLEHAMMER, Norway — Johannes Lochner of Germany overtook Francesco Friedrich in the second heat Sunday and won a four-man World Cup bobsled race for the first time this season. In the two-woman race earlier Sunday, Germany swept the medals again and Laura Nolte moved a big step closer to what would be her third consecutive overall World Cup title. That …

Langenhan, Germany dominate on final day of luge’s world championships
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Langenhan, Germany dominate on final day of luge’s world championships

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WHISTLER, British Columbia — History for Max Langenhan. Once again, Germany proved its dominance at the luge world championships — finishing off in style Saturday with a two more gold medals, giving the perennial power five wins in seven events over the weekend. Langenhan became the fifth luge athlete to win back-to-back men’s singles world championships — holding off German …

Langenhan moves into World Cup luge points lead, bobsled races in St. Moritz are called off
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Langenhan moves into World Cup luge points lead, bobsled races in St. Moritz are called off

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OBERHOF, Germany — Max Langenhan of Germany moved back into the World Cup men’s singles points lead Sunday, after getting his season-best third win of the season. In a mixed doubles World Cup race, the German teams of Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt and Jessica Degenhardt-Cheyenne Rosenthal took gold, with Austria second and Italy third. Germany also won the mixed singles World …

Friedrich pulls away for 4-man bobsled win, US finishes 3rd in team luge relay
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Friedrich pulls away for 4-man bobsled win, US finishes 3rd in team luge relay

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ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Francesco Friedrich got the 85th World Cup bobsled victory of his career Sunday, dominating the second heat to win a four-man race. Luge At Altenberg, Germany, Austria’s Madeleine Egle got her third World Cup women’s singles luge win in five races this season and slipped past fellow Austrian Lisa Schulte for the overall standings lead. Latvia’s …

Forgan and Kirkby win another World Cup luge doubles medal for the US, placing 3rd in Oberhof
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Forgan and Kirkby win another World Cup luge doubles medal for the US, placing 3rd in Oberhof

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OBERHOF, Germany — Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby of the U.S. won a bronze medal in a World Cup women’s doubles luge race Saturday, their second podium finish in three races this season. “I’m really happy to have two good runs today.” Forgan and Kirkby — who are third in the women’s doubles World Cup standings through three races — …

Friedrich wins 80th World Cup bobsled gold, Humphries returns, USA Luge gets pair of top-5 finishes
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Friedrich wins 80th World Cup bobsled gold, Humphries returns, USA Luge gets pair of top-5 finishes

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ALTENBERG, Germany — Francesco Friedrich of Germany got the 80th World Cup win of his career Saturday, teaming with rookie Simon Wulff to prevail in the opening two-man bobsled race of the season. It was Friedrich’s 133rd World Cup medal — including four-man results — in 188 races, and he’s now won 48 of his 100 two-man races on the …

Germany wins men’s luge doubles, Italy takes women’s race
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Germany wins men’s luge doubles, Italy takes women’s race

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WHISTLER, British Columbia — Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken of Germany had the fastest time in both heats on their way to winning a World Cup luge men’s doubles race Saturday. In the women’s doubles race, Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer of Italy rallied in the second heat to narrowly beat the Austrian team of Selina Egle and Lara Kipp. …

Germany leads in women’s Olympic bobsled, USA in 3rd
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Germany leads in women’s Olympic bobsled, USA in 3rd

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BEIJING — The Germans remain right at home on China’s Olympic sliding track. Winners of gold medals in seven of the eight sliding events so far at the Beijing Games, Germany has put itself in prime position to add more hardware to its record-setting total — holding down the top two spots at the midway point of the women’s bobsled …

Historic sweep for Germany, taking 3 medals in Olympic 2-man
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Historic sweep for Germany, taking 3 medals in Olympic 2-man

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BEIJING — Eins, zwei, drei. Germany — unquestionably the world’s sliding superpower — became the first nation to sweep the medals in an Olympic bobsled race on Tuesday, grabbing gold, silver and bronze in the two-man event at the Beijing Games. The only time that “Das Deutschlandlied” hasn’t been the national anthem playing when the flags celebrating a new Olympic …

Double gold: Humphries finishes off historic bobsled sweep
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Double gold: Humphries finishes off historic bobsled sweep

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Kaillie Humphries wasn’t sure if she would get a chance to race this season. Humphries ended her international season Sunday by winning the inaugural women’s monobob world championship in Altenberg, Germany, adding that gold medal to the one she and Lolo Jones claimed on the same track last weekend. Humphries becomes the obvious gold-medal favorite going into the Olympic season, …

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