Germany 4, Remainder of World 0.
The Beijing Olympics have been a luge runaway for the world’s sliding superpower, which gained gold in males’s, girls’s and doubles occasions — then put these champions in Thursday’s group relay and watched them finish the season with yet another victory.
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Natalie Geisenberger, Johannes Ludwig and the doubles group of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt completed in 3 minutes, 3.406 seconds on the Yanqing Sliding Heart, 0.080 seconds forward of silver-medalist Austria and 0.948 seconds forward of bronze-medalist Latvia.
The medal standings have been a runaway. The relay was not. Wendl and Arlt needed to make up a one-tenth of a second deficit within the ultimate warmth of the competitors, then skidded a bit simply earlier than the end line — however had simply sufficient pace to prevail.
“That is an amazing efficiency,” German coach Norbert Loch mentioned. “And now, beer. We earned it.”
Geisenberger is now a six-time gold medalist — three in a row within the girls’s race, three in a row in relays. Identical for Wendl and Arlt, who’ve pulled off the doubles-then-relay sweep in every of the final three Olympics. Ludwig is merely a three-time gold medalist, after being a part of the relay triumph in 2018 after which climbing atop the rostrum twice this week.
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These 4 sliders, mixed: 15 Olympic gold medals.
Each non-German luge nation, mixed: 14 Olympic gold medals.
The US was seventh, with one Olympic profession ending and three others simply beginning. Chris Mazdzer — the four-time Olympian and 2018 males’s silver medalist — is finished on this stage, confirming that he’ll retire after one ultimate farewell World Cup race.
Mazdzer teamed up with Ashley Farquharson and the doubles group of Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander for the relay, with a ending time of three:05.741.
And afterward, Mazdzer mentioned the way forward for the group is brilliant.
“I believe we’ve got completely wonderful athletes,” Mazdzer mentioned. “I do know each athlete at USA Luge pushes so arduous to develop into the perfect.”
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For Farquharson, DiGregorio and Hollander, Beijing represented an Olympic debut. Mazdzer introduced the group in for a bunch hug when the run was over, and so they have been all smiles afterward.
“I believe this being our first Olympics and the way we carried out this final week is wonderful,” Farquharson mentioned. “We will solely go up from right here.”