White Castle slides into partnership with USA Luge
Kids get ready to roll in one of the White Castle/USA Luge clinics the two organizations have launched as part of their promotional partnership. (Photo provided)
Feb. 5, 2021 White Castle long known as the home of the Slider is partnering again with USA Luge through 2023, as an extension of a cross-promotional program that extols the virtues of both Slider burgers and Slider athletes, who compete for the fastest time on sometimes treacherous downhill ice tracks. The partnership began in 2017, when Columbus, Ohio-based White Castle became an official sponsor of the sports organization and title sponsor of its off-season recruitment program, the White Castle USA Luge Slider Search, a news release said.
aflynn@lakeplacidnews.com USA Luge Marketing Director Gordy Sheer, left, and Director of Sports Programs Mark Grimmette get ready to release 960 lacrosse balls at the Lake Placid sliding track for the first Running of the Balls in March 2016. (News photo Andy Flynn) Spectators watch lacrosse balls at Curve 19 at Mount Van Hoevenberg during the first Running of the Balls fundraiser for USA Luge in March 2016. (News photo Andy Flynn)
Spectators watch lacrosse balls at Curve 19 at Mount Van Hoevenberg during the first Running of the Balls fundraiser for USA Luge in March 2016. (News photo Andy Flynn)
LAKE PLACID Thousands will be competing on the combined luge, bobsled and skeleton track at Mount Van Hoevenberg later this month all at the same time, in about 2 minutes.
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
January 24, 2021 GMT
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.
King Felix: Loch wraps up 7th World Cup luge season title
January 23, 2021 GMT
This year, he’s 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.