Luge - Double delight for Germany's Bayern Express

Luge - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Men's Doubles Competition - Olympic Sliding Centre - Pyeongchang, South Korea - February 14, 2018. Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt of Germany celebrate winning gold. REUTERS/Edgar Su

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Germany's "Bayern Express", Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, thundered down the ice track to claim a second successive Olympic gold in the doubles luge on Wednesday, underlining their class on the sliding sport's biggest stage.

Four years after denying Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger a hat-trick of titles in Sochi, Wendl and Arlt put in two flawless runs at Pyeongchang's Olympic Sliding Centre to edge out silver-winning Austrian duo Peter Penz and Georg Fischler.