Laura Nolte and Kaysha Love continue hot starts to World Cup bobsled season

IGLS, Austria (AP) — Laura Nolte of Germany and Kaysha Love of the U.S. continued their sizzling starts to the World Cup bobsled season on Sunday.

Nolte teamed with Deborah Levi to win a two-woman race, with Love and Sylvia Hoffman finishing second.

Nolte and Love have medaled in all four women’s bobsled World Cup races this season; Nolte has won both two-woman events, Love has driven to silvers in both of those and the two have split the golds and silvers from the first two monobob races this season as well.

Kim Kalicki and Leonie Fiebig of Germany were third in Sunday’s two-woman race. The Germans and the Americans split the top six spots on Sunday; Kallie Humphries Armbruster and Jasmine Jones were fourth for the U.S., Lisa Buckwitz and Kira Lipperheide were fifth for Germany, and Elana Meyers Taylor and Azaria Hill were sixth for the Americans.

Francesco Friedrich drove to the win in a four-man World Cup race at Igls on Sunday, edging fellow German Johannes Lochner for his first win of the season and his 87th in World Cup races.

Patrick Baumgartner of Italy drove to the bronze, the second medal in 46 World Cup four-man races in his career.

At Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Jonas Mueller of Austria won the men’s luge test event race at the track where the Olympic races will be held in February.

Kristers Aparjods of Latvia was second and Wolfgang Kindl of Austria took third.

Jonny Gustafson was the top American, placing 14th.

Austria won the team relay, with Germany second, Italy third, Latvia fourth and the U.S. placing fifth.

Bobsled: World Cup racing resumes Dec. 13 and Dec. 14 at Lillehammer, Norway.

Skeleton: Men’s, women’s and mixed team races on Dec. 12 at Lillehammer, Norway.

Luge: World Cup season opens this coming weekend at Winterberg, Germany.

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Frank del Duca, Joshua Williamson, Boone Niederhofer and Bryce Cheek, of the United States,compete in the 4-man bobsleigh race at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Francesco Friedrich, Tim Becker, Alexander Schueller and Felix Straub, of Germany, pose after winning the 4-man bobsleigh race at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Second place Johannes Lochner, Thorsten Margis, Joern Wenzel and Georg Fleischhauer, of Germany, winners Francesco Friedrich, Tim Becker, Alexander Schueller and Felix Straub, of Germany, and third placed Patrick Baumgartner, Eric Fantazzini, Robert Mircea and Lorenzo Bilotti, of Italy, from left, pose after the 4-man bobsleigh race at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Markus Treichl, Markus Sammer, Sascha Stepan and Kristian Huber, of Austria, compete in the 4-man bobsleigh race at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Second placed Kaysha Love and Sylvia Hoffman, of the United States, winners Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi, of Germany, and third placed Kim Kalicki and Leonie Fiebig, of Germany, from left, pose together after the 2-woman bobsleigh race at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

LONDON (AP) — A 45-year-old man was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbings of two Jewish men in London, the latest in a string of attacks that have sparked fear and anger in Britain's Jewish community.

Essa Suleiman was remanded into custody after appearing in Westminster Magistrates' Court to face two counts related to the attack in Golders Green. He also faces a third count of attempted murder over an incident elsewhere in the city earlier Wednesday that left a man with minor injuries.

Police have labeled the Golders Green attack an act of terrorism.

Suleiman, a Somalia-born British citizen who lives in London, did not enter a plea. His case was transferred to the Central Criminal Court for a May 15 hearing.

Prosecutor Emma Harraway said Suleiman attacked Ishmail Hussein, his friend of 20 years, in south London before taking a train to the north part of the city where he targeted Jews hours later.

Shloime Rand, 34, was stabbed in the chest outside a synagogue, puncturing his lung, and Norman Shine, 76, who was wearing a traditional Jewish skullcap, was stabbed in the neck at a bus stop.

“As Mr. Shine adjusted his kippah, Suleiman ran towards him and set upon him, launching a series of aggressive blows," Harraway said.

Rand was discharged from the hospital and Shine is in stable condition.

Police said Suleiman was referred in 2020 to the government’s Prevent program, which tries to steer individuals away from extremism. The police force said his file was closed later the same year, and didn’t disclose the reason for the referral.

The British government pledged to tackle antisemitism after the stabbings in an area in north London that is an epicenter of Britain’s Jewish community. The assault followed a string of arson attacks on synagogues and other Jewish sites in London in recent weeks.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that his government would increase security for the Jewish community and “do everything in our power to stamp this hatred out.”

Britain’s official terror threat level was raised from substantial to severe after Wednesday’s stabbing attack. Severe is the second-highest rung on a five-point scale and means intelligence agencies consider an attack highly likely in the next six months.

The government said the change was not due solely to the Golders Green attack but also due to increased danger “from Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorist threat from individuals and small groups based in the U.K.”

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, center, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley, right, and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, 2nd left, speak with members of the Jewish community during a visit to Golders Green, north west London, Thursday April 30, 2026, following an attack on Wednesday in which two men were stabbed. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via AP)

Police on duty outside Golders Green tube station in London, Thursday, April 30, 2026, near the scene where two people were recently stabbed in the Golders Green neighbourhood, that has a large Jewish community. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Two men walk in London, Thursday, April 30, 2026, near the scene where two people were recently stabbed in the Golders Green neighbourhood, that has a large Jewish community. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

People look out of a window near the scene where two people were stabbed the previous day in the Golders Green neighbourhood, which has a large Jewish community, in London, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)