Luge duo Wendl/Arlt collect crystal globe in jeans

Casual in jeans and sneakers, record Olympic champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt held up the crystal globe for the overall World Cup. But they didn't sled for it. Their victory was already decided at the penultimate stop in St. Moritz. "It's a strange feeling somehow. We drove up to the track here and thought to ourselves that we would like to race. We were already tingling," said Arlt and emphasized due to the decision not to start: "It was important and right that we support the juniors and young talents here and that they get a World Cup appearance. That's important to us, we've already experienced that as small pens."

So the two 38-year-olds, who won their seventh gold and a bronze medal in the doubles in Cortina d'Ampezzo, were replaced by youngsters Louis Grünbeck and Maximilian Kührt (RRV Sonneberg/Schalkau/RRC Zella-Mehlis). With eleventh place directly behind the World Champions Hannes Orlamünder and Paul Gubitz (both RRC Zella-Mehlis), the result was decent.

Eggert/Müller lose their track record

Toni Eggert and Florian Müller (WSV Oberhof/WSC Oberwiesenthal) finished third in the season finale. Victory went to Austria's Thomas Steu and Wolfgang Kindl, who had also won the previous week in St. Moritz and climbed to second place in the overall standings. They had already pulverized the track record previously set by Eggert/Müller in the first run.