Loch's teammates Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, winners of five of seven World Cup doubles events to date, were not threatened either in winning the gold medal ahead of compatriots Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken.
"The busloads of Chinese people running around and taking a lot of photos and making noise and behaving a bit stupid because this is the first time they're traveling -- these are the more visible tourists, " says Arlt.