Luge, the 2021/22 season is already official: off with the pre-Olympic in Beijing at the end of November

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Luge, the 2021/22 season is already official: off with the pre-Olympic in Beijing at the end of November

The International Federation has announced the calendar of the year that will experience the great appointment with the Games. Closing of the World Cup at the end of January in Sankt Moritz. We will not go to Winterberg.

A 2021/22 season with a calendar that returns to include various parts of the globe, after the past year saw all the races in the old continent, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The season that will lead to the Beijing 2022 Olympics could only begin with the pre-Olympic race that will be held in the brand new track located in the Yanqing Sliding Center, on November 20-21, the first real test for everyone in view of the key event in five circles. scheduled for February. The North American trips will follow, first in Canada on the Whistler track and then in the stars and stripes territory, with the seat still in runoff between Lake Placid and Park City. Seven days after the US stage, the European tour will begin with the first of the three races on German soil in the calendar, Altenberg and the Austrian stage of Igls in succession. After the Christmas break, New Year's Day will be resumed with the Koenigssee stage and from here without stopping Sigulda, Latvia, the last Teutonic stage of the season in Oberhof will follow until reaching the conclusion on the natural route of Sankt Moritz with the Swiss basin confirming its presence on the calendar after returning there last season after 9 years of absence. On the other hand, the German circuit of Winterberg will be absent from all the main events (CDM, World Championships, Olympics, Europeans) of the highest international circuit, and this has not happened since the 2000/2001 season. CdM Sledding Calendar 2021/22 Yanqing (China) November 20-21 Whistler (Canada) November 27-28 Park City or Lake Placid * (United States of America) 04-05 December Altenberg (Germany) 11-12 December Innsbruck (Austria) 18-19 December Koenigssee (Germany) 01-02 January Sigulda (Latvia) 08-09 January Oberhof (Germany) January 15-16 St. Moritz (Switzerland) 22-23 January XXIV Winter Olympics 04-10 February Matteo Collodoro
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