Previously, the Sprint Cup was held on Sundays, but now the matches will take place on Friday, and all the sleigh riders who have applied for the stage will take part in it, instead of the top 15 participants of the main competition.
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The sprint will also take into account not only the track cut, but also the start reaction, which will be added together with the finish time.
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The last of the four stages of this season’s Sprint Cup will take place in Oberhof. The leaders in the two-crew competition are Juris and Andris Šici, who claim to win the overall standings.
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143 athletes from 25 countries have entered the eighth stage of the World Cup. On Saturday there will be the main competition for men’s singles and doubles, but on Sunday there will be women and a team relay.
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The final of the World Cup and the European Championships will take place on January 22/23 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The culmination of the season will be from February 4 to 10, when the Olympic medals will be fought on the Yangtze River in Beijing.
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