Andris and Juris Šics' silver is a big improvement over their seventh-place finish in Torino.
VANCOUVER, Canada — Latvian brothers Andris and Juris Šics claimed a surprise silver medal in the doubles luge overnight.
The brothers, who have a current world cup ranking of nine, upstart many by going out and setting a blistering time on their first run. It forced the reigning [private_supervisor]Olympics champions, Andreas and Wolfgang Linger to go out and set a new track record (41.332 secs) to overtake the time set by the Šics brothers.
After the horrific death of Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili earlier in the games, the luge track was shortened with all competitors starting from the junior’s gate. This seemingly suited the Šics brothers with the first corner now very much resembling that to their home track in Sigulda, which may have attributed to their superior times through the first two time gates in the upper sections of the track.
Just 0.088 of a second behind the Austrians going into their second run, the Šics brothers entered the second run with a true belief they could better their position to first. However, they could only produce the third quickest time on their second run but it was still enough to hold off German pairing of Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch. In the mean time, the Linger brothers put in another flawless run, showing why they are the world no.1 doubles pairing.
Meanwhile, Latvia’s second doubles pairing of Pēteris Kalniņš and Oskars Gudramovičs could not make it two Latvian pairings in the top-ten, finishing the event in 12th place.
Talking to sportacentrs.com following their performance Juris Šics claimed it was a long hard fight to the podium and the feeling that they were now there was difficult to describe, saying it would take a long time to set in. Juris went on to say that the medal had certainly come as a surprise before adding that they knew they had a realistic chance of some quick practice runs.[/private_supervisor] [private_subscription 1 month]Olympics champions, Andreas and Wolfgang Linger to go out and set a new track record (41.332 secs) to overtake the time set by the Šics brothers.
After the horrific death of Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili earlier in the games, the luge track was shortened with all competitors starting from the junior’s gate. This seemingly suited the Šics brothers with the first corner now very much resembling that to their home track in Sigulda, which may have attributed to their superior times through the first two time gates in the upper sections of the track.
Just 0.088 of a second behind the Austrians going into their second run, the Šics brothers entered the second run with a true belief they could better their position to first. However, they could only produce the third quickest time on their second run but it was still enough to hold off German pairing of Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch. In the mean time, the Linger brothers put in another flawless run, showing why they are the world no.1 doubles pairing.
Meanwhile, Latvia’s second doubles pairing of Pēteris Kalniņš and Oskars Gudramovičs could not make it two Latvian pairings in the top-ten, finishing the event in 12th place.
Talking to sportacentrs.com following their performance Juris Šics claimed it was a long hard fight to the podium and the feeling that they were now there was difficult to describe, saying it would take a long time to set in. Juris went on to say that the medal had certainly come as a surprise before adding that they knew they had a realistic chance of some quick practice runs.[/private_subscription 1 month] [private_subscription 4 months]Olympics champions, Andreas and Wolfgang Linger to go out and set a new track record (41.332 secs) to overtake the time set by the Šics brothers.
After the horrific death of Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili earlier in the games, the luge track was shortened with all competitors starting from the junior’s gate. This seemingly suited the Šics brothers with the first corner now very much resembling that to their home track in Sigulda, which may have attributed to their superior times through the first two time gates in the upper sections of the track.
Just 0.088 of a second behind the Austrians going into their second run, the Šics brothers entered the second run with a true belief they could better their position to first. However, they could only produce the third quickest time on their second run but it was still enough to hold off German pairing of Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch. In the mean time, the Linger brothers put in another flawless run, showing why they are the world no.1 doubles pairing.
Meanwhile, Latvia’s second doubles pairing of Pēteris Kalniņš and Oskars Gudramovičs could not make it two Latvian pairings in the top-ten, finishing the event in 12th place.
Talking to sportacentrs.com following their performance Juris Šics claimed it was a long hard fight to the podium and the feeling that they were now there was difficult to describe, saying it would take a long time to set in. Juris went on to say that the medal had certainly come as a surprise before adding that they knew they had a realistic chance of some quick practice runs.[/private_subscription 4 months] [private_subscription 1 year]Olympics champions, Andreas and Wolfgang Linger to go out and set a new track record (41.332 secs) to overtake the time set by the Šics brothers.
After the horrific death of Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili earlier in the games, the luge track was shortened with all competitors starting from the junior’s gate. This seemingly suited the Šics brothers with the first corner now very much resembling that to their home track in Sigulda, which may have attributed to their superior times through the first two time gates in the upper sections of the track.
Just 0.088 of a second behind the Austrians going into their second run, the Šics brothers entered the second run with a true belief they could better their position to first. However, they could only produce the third quickest time on their second run but it was still enough to hold off German pairing of Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch. In the mean time, the Linger brothers put in another flawless run, showing why they are the world no.1 doubles pairing.
Meanwhile, Latvia’s second doubles pairing of Pēteris Kalniņš and Oskars Gudramovičs could not make it two Latvian pairings in the top-ten, finishing the event in 12th place.
Talking to sportacentrs.com following their performance Juris Šics claimed it was a long hard fight to the podium and the feeling that they were now there was difficult to describe, saying it would take a long time to set in. Juris went on to say that the medal had certainly come as a surprise before adding that they knew they had a realistic chance of some quick practice runs.[/private_subscription 1 year]
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