14:57
Wojciech Chmielewski / Jakub Kowalewski (POL)
Chmielewski and Kowalewski are in a good eighth place after their first run. It would be a success for them now if they could stay there too. The lead increases slightly at first, but the Russian Olympic Committee duo was really strong at the bottom and that’s where the Poles lose. They finished second with 0.072 seconds.
14:55
Alexandr Denisyev / Vladislav Antonov (ROC)
Can Denisyev / Antonov manage their lead over their teammates or is it going down for them too? It’s hard for them to get in, but they still get something out of it in the second half and confidently take first place in the intermediate standings with a lead of 0.515 seconds.
14:53
Park Jin-yong / Cho Jung-myung (KOR)
Park and Cho were satisfied after their first run as they managed to earn a place in the top ten. But now comes a big blunder and it falls two tenths behind the duo of the Russian Olympic team. A deficit that is difficult to catch on this track. With a deficit of 0.219 seconds, it falls back to third place.
14:51
Andrei Bogdanov / Iurii Prokhorov (ROC)
Bogdanov and Prokhorov are just ahead of the US team and need a clean run now if they are to stay there. After the first two passages pass, the speed is missing and it falls slightly behind the USA. Can they hit back again? Yes! With a wafer-thin lead of seven thousandths, the US duo passed after a good final sprint.
14:48
Zachary Di Gregorio / Sean Hollander (USA)
Despite the slight inattentiveness shortly before the finish, the duo from Slovakia has already been able to make up two places. The US duo now have a huge lead and seem a lot more confident than the Romanian duo before them, even if they sometimes take the gang with them. However, a 1.3 second lead at the finish is the sovereign lead and the celebration at the finish is correspondingly large.
14:46
Vasile Gitlan / Darius Serban (ROU)
Gîtlan and Şerban leave it and come up to the gang. From then on, they present a very bumpy ride and they slide along the gang again and again. As a result, their lead from the first run is quickly used up and they also end up behind the Slovakian team by 0.095 seconds.
14:44
Ihor Stakhiv / Andrii Lysetskyi (UKR)
Stakhiv / Lysetskyi lose shortly after the start and fall slightly behind the duo from Slovakia. A deficit that continues to grow and finally amounts to a whopping 0.221 seconds at the finish.
14:42
Tomáš Vaverčák / Matej Zmij (SVK)
Vaverčák / Zmij are the best team so far at the start, but do they manage to carry this pace onto the track? Not quite! They are concentrated for a long time, but then the fall comes just before the finish after they hit the gang hard. The helpers are there and help them out of the ice channel. The duo is still in the lead, by the way, because they didn’t lose a lot of time so close to the finish line.
14:39
Filip Vejdelek / Zdenek Pekny (CZE)
It continues with the duo from the Czech Republic. They are already taking a big head start in the direction of China and are then quickly expanding it further. Of course, they also have a completely different level of performance due to their experience. There is some uncertainty at the bottom, but after a 1.4 second lead the duo is still satisfied at the finish.
14:37
Yebo Huang / Junyue Peng (CHN)
The Chinese duo with Huang / Peng is the prelude to the decision today. For them, of course, it’s all about being there and if none of the duos in front of them make a mistake, there shouldn’t be much better than last place. At 1:00.840 minutes they are a bit slower than in the first run, but have no problems with the track throughout the run.
14:27
Who else is involved?
After the first run, the medal ranks seem fixed, unless Steu/Koller make a big mistake in their final run. The Italian duo with Rieder/Kainzwalder is already 0.176 seconds behind the bronze medal. Bots/Plūme and Sics/Sics are also well behind the medal ranks.
14:23
The duo from Austria
The Austrians Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller also want to fight for medals. After the first run, you are 0.171 seconds behind in third place. The second duo from Austria cannot take part in the medal decision. Yannick Müller suffered a fracture of his left forearm in a fall during training on Monday. This means that it is not possible to work together with Armin Frauscher.
14:13
Is there German gold again?
The chances are not bad that Team Germany will be able to celebrate again today. After the first of two runs, Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt are just ahead of the second German duo Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken with the new track record. You are only 0.045 seconds short of gold. There is already a larger gap behind it.
14:04
Warm welcome!
The next medal competition in luge is coming up at the 2022 Winter Olympics. At 2:35 p.m. the decision will be made in the men’s doubles!