The first qualifying trials of the Russian team ended in Lillehammer

In Norway, Albert Demtschenko and Tatiana Ivanova have established themselves in their respective categories. L'' highlander sledging, although it has long since passed the forty springs, put in line all younger teammates starting from the second ranked Peretyagin Alexander and Victor Kneyb third. Ivanova however, preceded Radionova and Horeva. A little surprise victory'' between the double, where they prevailed young Denisyev-Antonov who edged out the more experienced Nevmerzhitskiy-Prokhorov. Grosev-Prokhorov ended the year in third place with the same time of the disappointing Yuzhakov-Mahnutin. The Russian Federation Luge (Rusluge) has decided to invest a lot of resources at the Olympic season to get to the big meeting in Sochi with concrete possibilities of the coin. Rusluge in fact, has signed an important partnership at the level of supply of materials with the Formula 1 team Marussia and especially entrusted the technical guidance to the expert hands of Walter Plaikner,'' the coach who led Armin Zöggeler and the Italian national team in the seasons d'' gold. The technician South Tyrolean, he immediately renewed the management of the team, introducing a new system for selecting athletes that will determine the composition of the team of the World Cup. "The selection of the team materializes in five tests" Plaikner explained in a recent interview with rusluge.ru, "the first trial was held in Lillehammer, while the second will be held in Sigulda. Instead The last three will be played on gut Olympic Sochi. At the end of each race the athletes take the points,'' a bit like in the World Cup, and at the end of the fifth round will define the six men, five women and four double that face the greatest world circuit sledding. " "In each event will be played three rounds, but only the two best times to be counted for the ranking," he continued,'' the Italian coach, "also to stimulate more competition we have decided that the first two stages will score halved. There I want to emphasize that the trails will be fundamental in order to qualify for all athletes without exception. Demtschenko So if Ivanova or should not be in the top positions in their respective categories will not take part in the next World Cup. "