Olympics NOW live: Toboggan doubles on course double gold - Austrians are breathing down their necks

Created: 2022-02-09 2:55 p.m

By: Christoph Klaucke

The doubles Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt are on course for gold in the Olympic tobogganing.

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At the Olympics in luge, the decision is in the doubles.

Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt and Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken duel for gold.

The live ticker.

• Olympics: Tobogganing in doubles on Wednesday, 2nd round from 2.30 p.m

• The four-time Olympic champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt lead after the first run in front of the world champion duo Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken.

• The German tobogganists can look forward to double gold again in the Yanqing ice track.

  We accompany the decision in the doubles in the live ticker.

Tobogganing/doubles: The intermediate result after the 1st run

+++ UPDATE +++

2:55 p.m .:

The Russian duo Denisyev / Antonov displaces their compatriots from the top and takes the lead by over half a second.

2:50 p.m .:

The Russians Bogdanov / Prokhorov are just seven thousandths in the lead.

2:48 p.m .:

The US boys Di Gregorio / Hollander are clearly in the lead and have a lead of over a second.

2:46 p.m .:

Despite the fall, the Slovaks are still in the lead.

The doubles from Ukraine and Romania were slower.

Olympia NOW live: Fall in doubles while tobogganing

2:42 p.m .:

The Slovakian duo fell!

In one of the last curves, the sled is pushed up too far and the fall can no longer be avoided.

The Slovaks slide across the finish line on their stomachs, clinging to their sports equipment.

Luckily nobody was injured.

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2.40 p.m .:

Now it’s time to get through the infamous curve 13 and get the medals for Germany.

The duo from Austria lurks just behind the two German sleds.

2:34 p.m

.: In a few minutes, the decision will be made when tobogganing in a double seater.

The German sleds Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt and the world champions Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken deliver a dramatic duel for Olympic gold, both are only 45 thousandths apart.

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1:43 p.m .:

The Austrians Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller could endanger the two German sleds, they were the fastest in training five times.

They do their race and are only two tenths down - third place.

The Austrian duo is still within striking distance.

But the two German doubles Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt and Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken are in the lead.

At around 2.30 p.m. the decision will be made in the second run.

We are here for you in the live ticker.

1:41 p.m .:

The Canadians Walker/Snith set a new start record by one hundredth.

How's the track going?

They are doing well, but at the end there is a blunder and there is a deficit of more than six tenths.

The Canadian duo was initially on bronze course.

1:38 p.m .:

The Slovakian duo Vavercak/Zmij even bounced for almost two seconds.

1:37 p.m .:

The next Russian duo Denisyev / Antonov also acts incorrectly and concedes almost eight tenths behind.

These are worlds in tobogganing and once again impressively underlines the performance of the German sleds.

1:35 p.m .:

A duo from Russia collects a gang, but is still on the slide.

They have just as little to do with the medals as the following doubles from Poland.

Olympia: tobogganing in doubles - two German sleds on course for gold

1.30 p.m .:

Now it’s time!

Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt set a start record.

The duo shoots dynamically through Yanqing's labyrinth of curves.

That looks good.

New track record - almost half a tenth faster than their German competitors Eggert/Benecken.

1:28 p.m .:

The Italians Rieder/Kainzwaldner are fighting for a medal here.

At the finish, however, they are three tenths behind the German world champions.

1:24 p.m .:

Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken get started.

The start succeeds - narrow lead.

Then the world champions expand their lead.

The duo hits the curves perfectly.

JAAAAAAAAA, that's a new track record.

Eggert/Benecken are over four tenths faster than the Latvians.

1:22 p.m .:

The Latvian Sics brothers start the competition with a new track record.

First of all, this is an announcement to the competition.

Update from February 9, 1:21 p.m.:

“We just have to let the box shoot,” said Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt after their top time in the last training session.

Now it's time to show the strong form in the competition.

We're excited, it's about to start.

Update from February 9, 1:20 p.m .:

Competition for the two top German teams comes from Austria.

Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller were in front in five of six training runs.

Update from February 9, 1:15 p.m .:

The Thuringian world champion duo Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken were initially considered favorites for gold in the Yanqing ice channel.

According to national coach Norbert Loch, the two coped better with the track.

But the duo Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, who were used to success at the Olympics, countered and set the fastest time in the last training session.

It amounts to a dramatic race for gold.

At the 2021 World Championships in Königssee, Eggert/Benecken were in the lead.

They also triumphed in the overall World Cup.

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Before the two runs for the medals, four-time Olympic champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt set the fastest time in the last training session on Tuesday.

In addition to the duo from Bavaria, the Thuringian world champion duo Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken would also like to take precious metal with them from China.

Four years ago it was enough for bronze.

A dramatic race for gold threatens to break out between the two teams from Bavaria and Thuringia.

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