Overview
- ARD and Eurosport will show the Lillehammer opener live, with streaming on Discovery+ and Joyn; the weekend includes mixed team on Friday and individual events for women and men on Saturday and Sunday.
- Markus Eisenbichler, who retired in March, joins Eurosport’s on-air team starting in Lillehammer and will work alongside Martin Schmitt and former head coach Werner Schuster through the season and at the Games.
- Karl Geiger says his summer build-up left his flight phase inefficient and his current level uncertain, while Germany’s women target a Nations Cup defense as coach Heinz Kuttin notes Austria is weakened by retirement and injury.
- The sliding season starts on Cortina d’Ampezzo’s new Eugenio Monti track, where Germany’s skeleton and bobsleigh teams are learning the course ahead of February’s Olympic races.
- After Igls failed FIL homologation and lost a luge World Cup to Winterberg, IBSF-approved bob and skeleton races are still scheduled there for Nov. 28, underscoring a turbulent venue picture in the Olympic run-up.