Despite all the Covid protocols and the long journey out to Beijing, Rupert and the team are in great spirits and looking forward to the challenge ahead. The track and facilities in Yanqing are incredible with a fully covered track and huge infrastructure around it. From what we’ve seen so far, the track plays nicely […]
Rupert had a good solid session on day 1 of Official Training. His lines are looking smooth but with a little bit of finessing to be done on the start there is room for even further improvement. A huge thanks to all of you at home supporting and for all the messages we have received, […]
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The 2018 Terberg DTS (UK) British Luge Championships took place at the Igls Olympic Sliding Centre in Innsbruck, Austria. The men’s race saw a straight shoot-out between Team GB’s AJ Rosen and Rupert Staudinger, fresh from the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. The battle went right down to the wire with Rupert Staudinger eventually prevailing […]
That’s a wrap … the 2016 / 2017 International sliding season is complete. The GB Luge team had 6 athletes on the circuit; Rupert Staudinger, Mark McQuitty, Lucas Gebauer-Barrett, Danielle Scott, Adam Rosen and Raymond Thompson. 5 out of 9 World Cup races were participated in, along with the World Championships in Igls, Austria. Overall […]
The team flew to South Korea in February 2017 for the Olympic test week of the new track in PyeongChang. This trip consisted of one weeks training followed by a week of racing. Corner 9 proved tricky for many athletes and was regularly studied by all nations during training. In total 27 nations and 156 […]
The 2017 World Championships were held in Igls, Austria on 27-29th January. It was the first time that Great Britain had entered a full team for the Championships, which enabled us to race in the Team Relay event along with the individual disciplines. Lucas Gebauer Barrett stepped up to the senior circuit from the junior […]
The 2017 European Championships were held in Königssee, Germany on 6-8th January. It was a historic day for the GB Luge team as they slid into 10th place in their first ever event as a team. Previously the doubles team of Adam Rosen and Ray Thomson had slid in the singles event, however they made […]
Welcome back to the team after a very successful training camp with the Austrian Luge federation. The training camp was a good learning curve for the athletes and moving forward we are aware of many of the things we need to work on as a team. This was the first summer camp with GB luge […]
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. As of Tuesday 24th August the team will be in Austria for the first ever GBLA summer training camp. There is only a handful of us heading out to Austria to soak up the knowledge of the Austrian start coaches, It will be a long hard work for the team […]