The three-time luge Olympic luge champion Georg Hackl has put the excellent performance of the German athletes at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang into perspective:”The performance density was already higher in the past,” the 51-year-old said in an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk:”The fact that the number of medals has increased is due to the fact that many competitions have been added.
With 14 gold medals, the “Team Deutschland” in South Korea has won more Olympic victories than ever before at winter games. In addition, they won ten silver medals and seven bronze medals. In the Nations’ Cup, the German team took second place behind Norway (14-14-11).
“To be honest, we also had the Olympic Winter Games after reunification, which we also won in terms of the medal table,”said Hackl.
All in all, the games for Hackl were nevertheless wonderful, although the luge athletes were unable to repeat the optimal gold yield of four times gold in Sochi four years ago with three victories in Pyeongchang.”Unfortunately, this has been denied to us tobogganers,”said Hackl.”But this is moaning on a high level.”.