Germany wins Olympic relay, sweeps luge gold medals

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Germany 4, Rest of World 0.

The Beijing Olympics were a luge runaway for the world’s sliding superpower, which won gold in men’s, women’s and doubles events — then put those champions in Thursday’s team relay and watched them end the season with one more victory.

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Natalie Geisenberger, Johannes Ludwig and the doubles team of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt finished in 3 minutes, 3.406 seconds at the Yanqing Sliding Center, 0.080 seconds ahead of silver-medalist Austria and 0.948 seconds ahead of bronze-medalist Latvia.

The medal standings were a runaway. The relay was not. Wendl and Arlt had to make up a one-tenth of a second deficit in the final heat of the competition, then skidded a bit just before the finish line — but had just enough speed to prevail.

Madeleine Egle, Wolfgang Kindl, Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller, of the Austria, celebrate winning the silver medal in the luge team relay the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing.  (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

"That's a great performance," German coach Norbert Loch said. "And now, beer. We earned it."

Geisenberger is now a six-time gold medalist — three in a row in the women’s race, three in a row in relays. Same for Wendl and Arlt, who have pulled off the doubles-then-relay sweep in each of the last three Olympics. Ludwig is merely a three-time gold medalist, after being part of the relay triumph in 2018 and then climbing atop the podium twice this week.

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Those four sliders, combined: 15 Olympic gold medals.

Every non-German luge nation, combined: 14 Olympic gold medals.