One of the most appealing things about luge is its name. Luge.
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AMERICAN WINS LUGE SPRINT Erin Hamlin won the women's luge sprint title in Igls, Austria.
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Set to the tune of "Mad World" by a YouTuber, we watch the man stand as female luge athlete after female luge athlete speeds by.
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LOCH TAKES LUGE TITLE The two-time Olympic champion Felix Loch of Germany clinched his fifth overall World Cup luge title, posting his seventh consecutive win.
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Luge added a new event in 2010, the team relay.
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There are luge tracks and clinics open to all ages.
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She eventually took up skeleton — a headfirst version of luge.
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Posey sipped on shots from an ice luge and danced around.
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And then there's the extra fun of steering in doubles luge.
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I think the double luge is amazing and curling is not.
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He even managed to write about luge, lacrosse, cricket and softball.
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He also drives around town in a "LUGE DAD" license plate.
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All the sleds: Bobsled, luge, and skeleton I already mentioned the bonkers skeleton event but the ice track is also home to bobsled and luge events, too, and these are all about speed, speed, and more speed.
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I can see some good things in the future for USA luge.
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Hell, it's not like the two-man luge is all that different.
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Some sports, like bobsleigh, skeleton and luge, have completely sold out already.
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None have come in the sliding sports of bobsled, luge or skeleton.
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The International Luge Federation did not immediately return a request for comment.
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The shortest was "luge," which won Daniel Greenblatt the title in 1984.
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Americans have five Olympic luge medals, all in women's singles, but no golds.
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NBCSN will broadcast additional coverage, including curling and men's luge, also starting at 8.
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Both decided to do that in the context of triple axels and the luge.
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It also hosted events in bobsledding, skeleton, and luge during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Luge medal contenders Roman Repilov and Semen Pavlichenko are among those who will also participate.
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The many wonders of that Winter Olympics legacy include an indoor luge and bobsled track.
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USA Luge President and CEO Jim Leahy also urged the House to pass Schumer's bill.
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The name suggests a competition of professional sledders with years of training on a luge.
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But outside of the Olympics, luge doesn't offer much prize money, even for top competitors.
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"Nobody is going to retire on what they make in luge," he told Sports Illustrated.
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If you thought luge couldn't get more terrifying, meet skeleton, its more dangerous older brother.
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Yet another shows a man floating in a pool using a starfish as a beer luge.
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The U.S. Luge team runs "slider searches" introducing children ages 9 to 13 to the sport.
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There's a bud light ... there's a luge ... there's Chiefs bros cheering it all on -- it's amazing.
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Luge Capital will deploy capital to startups across North America, but will focus on Canadian tech.
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WinSport is open daily, and the luge, skeleton and bobsled experiences are offered in the wintertime.
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Mazdzer made history when he won a silver medal in the men's singles luge on Feb.
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"If you are a luge athlete, you give your entire life to this sport," Mazdzer said.
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The country has four luge tracks, and nearly a quarter of the world's courses for elite competitions.
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He also received a small stipend from the U.S. Luge Association to cover his cost of living.
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Although Mazdzer isn't raking in cash, he has no regrets about the time he's invested in luge.
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Sometimes, the man is not even looking in the right direction as the luge flies into view.
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There's a lot you can make with a 3D printer: prosthetics, corneas, firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge.
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"We had craaaazy parties, we had DJs, bands, an ice luge, a fire twirler," she told the magazine.
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"The really cold conditions here, with luge that's the great equalizer," he said, according to the Denver Post.
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The rest take place on ice: curling, bobsled, figure skating, hockey, luge, short track, skeleton and speed skating.
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After that it became a tradition and before I knew it, we had ourselves a pretty wild luge.
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Really, who needs a ski jump or a luge track to spruce up a Chamber of Commerce brochure?
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Just check out Nats aces Stephen Strasburg and Max Scherzer turning the NLCS trophy into a beer luge!!
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That willingness to share expensive equipment was typical of the concern the luge community has for each other.
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The Whistler Sliding Centre there hosted the bobsled, luge and skeleton competitions during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.
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"The U.S. Luge Association does a fantastic job providing the financial resources to make this feasible," Mazdzer said.
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The opening runs of the men's singles in the luge event start Saturday at the Olympic Sliding Centre.
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I help luge racing, and I try and try, and then later, suddenly — bang, something unpleasant happens to me.
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Erin Hamlin, the bronze winner in Sochi and first American woman to claim an Olympic luge medal, was sixth.
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Just hours earlier, Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed on his final practice run down the nearby luge track.
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There will also be men's medals in skiathlon, biathlon, slopestyle and luge, as well as the women's moguls final.
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The young athletes that show the most potential are invited to try luge on ice at a training site.
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South Korea's luge federation hired a German, Steffen Sartor, to be its national coach in preparation for the Olympics.
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Fresh off of an Olympic win, luge athlete Chris Mazdzer is already eyeing a second career in financial planning.
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Mazdzer, a Massachusetts native, was first exposed to luge — which he describes as "ultimate sledding" — at 8 years old.
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He was drawn to luge over bobsledding because the line was shorter and you could get more runs in.
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The latest release comes after experts identified the International Luge Federation as one of Fancy Bear's targets last year.
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For bobsleigh and luge, the demands of the event are much different where their starts are critical to performance.
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Leading the U.S. crew was Olympic luger Erin Hamlin — the first U.S. athlete to win an Olympic singles luge medal.
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Part of the way down, the group crashed into a large gate used to separate the bobsled and luge tracks.
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Four-time Olympian Erin Hamlin (women's luge) was named the U.S. flag bearer on Thursday night, according to NBC Sports.
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So from VR Worlds that's "Danger Ball"—a surprisingly addictive little Tron-aesthetics heading affair—and its "VR Luge" runs.
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Chris Mazdzer, 29, who took home a silver medal, won the U.S.'s first-ever medal in men's singles luge.
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"Gun for a sledder" is LUGER, which is both a brand of firearm and someone who sleds in a luge.
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Guess the cold's only around for snow-long, you really got to make the choice to use it or luge it.
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While doing luge may seem ridiculous, hurtling down the same track at speeds around 80 mph head first feels downright maniacal.
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If you're looking for more background on these sports, NBC sports has a full glossary for bobsled, luge, and skeleton available.
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Chris Mazdzer picked up silver in the men's luge final — a Team USA first — and figure skating won a team bronze.
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A platter of roasted brussels sprouts with pomegranate-tahini sauce that you can spear with toothpicks as you watch people luge?
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Luge Capital, a fintech and AI-focused venture capital fund headquartered in Montreal and Toronto, is looking to close that gap.
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Stassi leaves voicemails asking if "everything's okay" while the show cuts to video of Beau having fun with an ice shot luge.
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"Part way down, the group hit a large gate used to separate the bobsled and luge tracks," police said in the statement.
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Another big difference: while a bobsled has both a steering mechanism and brakes, neither the luge or skeleton sleds have those options.
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Murray at one point told the reporters that they could benefit from an "ice luge" in the press area rather than coffee.
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Luge and bobsleigh are Canada's shit, too, as is short-track speedskating and various forms of figure skating—including ice dance, obviously.
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Five of Waynesville's eight city council members are former military, and Mayor Luge Hardman says the meetings run efficiently as a result.
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"Part way down, the group hit a large gate used to separate the bobsled and luge tracks," police said in a statement.
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"We love spending time making the luge with our dad each year — it was scary fast this year," Daniel, 15, tells PEOPLE.
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German athletes have now won 11 out of 15 of the doubles golds in luge dating back to the 1964 Innsbruck Games.
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Dan Greenblatt, 43, won the 1984 National Spelling Bee with the word "luge," which he still considers a much too easy word.
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Last month, the group posted emails and other documents online from the International Luge Federation, claiming they demonstrated violations of antidoping rules.
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Luge competitor Armin Zoeggeler made his Winter Olympics debut at the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway, where he won a bronze medal.
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Known as Italy's "Cannibal" on Ice, Zoeggeler topped the Luge World Cup rankings five times during the course of 20183 and 2006.
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Born in Munich, Geisenberger grew up some 50 kilometers away in the Bavarian mountain town of Miesbach, which has a summer luge track.
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"One very bad run but that's sport," said Loch, who was consoled by IOC President and luge fan Thomas Bach at the venue.
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Archie may as well have worn a World's Greatest QB Spawner t-shirt to games and then done ice luge shots on camera.
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If you're up for going on your own, use your body weight to navigate the luge through five twists in just 40 seconds.
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But he overcame self-doubt to take home the silver and become the first American to medal in the men's singles luge event.
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He tries again, brushing the top of the wall before sliding down on his back, floppy as a sleeping man strapped to a luge.
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For the first time since 1984, the Olympic men's luge medallists will not include either Hackl or Italian two-times Olympic champion Armin Zoeggeler.
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During the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Hamlin became the first U.S. athlete ever to medal in a singles luge event with a bronze.
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The luge is a horrifying fast descent through a rock-hard ice tunnel, but as long as a luger doesn't crash, they stay safe.
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Participants are taught the basics of using a sled and then take several runs down a paved luge course on a sled with wheels.
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He's also a commercial pilot, physician who was educated at Stanford and Harvard, and competed in the 1988 U.S. Olympic trials on the luge team.
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The Germans have been thrilled with the bone-chilling cold in Pyeongchang, which has seen the luge track record beaten during training in the leadup.
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The United States' luge team jumped on the bandwagon in the lead up to PyeongChang, enlisting the help of Stratasys to design a better sled.
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Millennial content creator Casey Newton and local vape bro Nilay Patel grabbed some ice luge cocktails before they explored the show floor of CES Unveiled.
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It was the second time the luge relay took place at the Winter Games after the event made its debut in Sochi four years ago.
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Of the 22014 Olympic medals awarded in luge since 22015, 75 have been won by East or West Germans or athletes from the unified team.
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He started competing in luge at age 13 and easily took to the sport, attending the Junior World Cup with kids five years his senior.
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"A luge or bobsleigh athlete will look to be reactive and quick off the start line and wouldn't require the high carbohydrate intake," Irvine said.
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She joined the Miesbach luge club at the age of 10 and went on to win 14 Junior World Cup events and six Junior World Championships.
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The fastest skiers and sledders—whether feet-first on a luge, or head-first on a skeleton—tear downhill at average speeds of around 100kph (62mph).
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According to the International Luge Federation's website, the preliminary calendar for the 2018-2019 season is already up so you can start sketching out your plans.
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But he was born in Puerto Rico, which gave him a chance to compete in luge at the Sarajevo Games as a representative of the island.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — When Aileen Frisch of Germany became the world junior luge champion in 2012, it might have seemed that her Olympic future was set.
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His parents ended up paying around $3,000 per year for him to train and compete, while the U.S. Luge Association covered another $20,000 worth of expenses.
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Hackl himself, who claimed the treble from 1992-1998, has tipped his protege Loch to win more glory for luge powerhouse Germany at the Olympic Sliding Centre.
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Bobsled and skeleton sleds both ride the ice on runners while luge sleds have what are called "steels" which are blades of steel attached to the runners.
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In February, Chris Mazdzer came in second in men's singles luge at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games, earning the U.S. its first-ever medal in the event.
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This month, La Scala Paris welcomed a production of "Dans la luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer" ("On Arthur Schopenhauer's Sledge"), by — and starring — the popular French author Yasmina Reza.
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The Upper Peninsula Luge Club has a natural track and the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex has a track built like the ones you see in the Olympics.
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Though he wasn't a luge enthusiast, he heard about Ms. Hamlin's ascent to the Olympics from relatives in Remsen and remembered her from their fort-making days.
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At Utah Olympic Park you can bobsled on the same track used for the bobsled, skeleton and luge events during the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games.
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Sochi bronze medallist Erin Hamlin, the United States' first Olympic medal winner in luge, bowed out with a sixth-place finish in her fourth and final Games.
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The light in the cave is now blinding for Mazdzer who will be able to continue his 16-year love affair with luge, for all its frustrations.
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Luge appeals to the viewers' most base human instinct in that it takes us to the precipice of disaster, and then demands that we look at it.
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The Swedish bid, for instance, planned to hold the bobsled, luge and skeleton events across the Baltic Sea in Sigulda, Latvia, where a refrigerated track already exists.
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FINISHING SEASON STRONG Tatjana Hüfner edged a German compatriot — Natalie Geisenberger, the overall champion — to win the last luge World Cup race of the season in Winterberg, Germany.
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Chris just made history as the first American man to medal in singles luge, and he told us things are going smoothly for U.S. Olympians in S. Korea.
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I tried to imagine a future where, after the world's top athletes had packed their bags, Seoulites would visit Pyeongchang in droves to luge and curl and bobsled.
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Germany have now won two out of three of the luge titles at the Pyeongchang Games, following Natalie Geisenberger's second successive triumph in the women's singles on Tuesday.
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Penz and Georg Fischler continued Austria's fine tournament, grabbing the nation's second luge medal of the Games after David Gleirscher's shock gold in the men's singles on Sunday.
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By then, Ms. Hamlin was on her way to becoming the first American to medal in the singles competition in luge, a sport still mystifying to many Americans.
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Earlier this month, a group calling themselves "Fancy Bears' Hack Team" released purported hacked emails and documents from the International Olympic Committee and later the International Luge Federation.
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The U.S. Olympic team has so far won four medals in Pyeongchang: two snowboarding golds, a silver in luge and a bronze in the team free skating event.
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"But it's tough because you give your entire life for luge and when you don't do well — if you're not at the top you get nothing," he added.
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Check the website for hours and fees, as well as for dates and prices of the 20182 Luge Fantasy Camp dates and 2018 Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp.
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Natalya Gart, Mr. Bedzhamov's counterpart with Russia's luge federation, acknowledged that involvement in sports could grant access to powerful circles, but she said that it rarely brought financial returns.
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The NBC Sports VR app is what you want to install on whatever device you're strapping to your face to get you closer to the slopes or luge track.
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Luge Capital is backed by iA Financial Group, BDC Capital, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Desjardins Group, La Capitale, Sun Life Financial and Fonds de solidarité FTQ.
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Most of the venues are nearing completion, including a brand-new Alpine ski center, speedskating oval, figure skating arena and sliding track for the bobsled, luge and skeleton events.
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Around 550,000 tickets, only 52% of the total, have been sold and just 37% of tickets for the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton events have been sold, according to USA Today.
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For some of the candidates, losing in Iowa doesn't matter as much; they're hoping to find success somewhere down the twisting, breakneck ice luge that is the presidential primary season.
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South Korea also has naturalized athletes in women's ice hockey, figure skating, luge, biathlon and skiing set to compete in Pyeongchang, but not everyone is on board with the policy.
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Skateboarding, mountain biking, and downhill street luge all pale in comparison to the extreme sport that is trying to change your pad in the stall of a public men's restroom.
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Their compatriot and 2010 champion Tatjana Huefner was in fourth place, another boost for the luge superpower's hopes of extending their reign over the women's event to 20 years on Tuesday.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Germany continued its domination of the Olympic luge competition with victory in the team relay event on Thursday as Canada took the silver medal and Austria bronze.
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By now, most sports fans are at least a little familiar with the luge: Sledders lying on their backs have been sliding down an icy course at the Olympics since 1964.
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Meanwhile, the leaders of three international winter sports federations — ice hockey, luge and curling — have made it clear that they do not support a blanket ban on Russian athletes in Pyeongchang.
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The athletes have devised a couple of novel coping methods—many have been seen plastering their cheeks with athletic tape—but you can't properly luge in a scarf and huge puffy coat.
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Chris Mazdzer with Witney Carson Chris Mazdzer won a silver medal in men's singles luge at the Winter Olympics and became the first American to ever make the podium in that event.
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But Joo Se-ki, an assistant South Korean luge coach, said that Frisch has worked hard to fit in and provides valuable insight into training, know-how and even maintenance of sleds.
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Meanwhile, experts at Trend Micro identified several Olympics sport organizations among the cyber group's targets in the second half of last year, including the Luge Federation and the European Ice Hockey Federation.
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The ESA image shows the location of the Olympic Stadium and Olympic Village, as well as where competitions in cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping, bobsled, luge and skeleton will take place.
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The reverse shows an athlete crowned with an olive wreath and an Indian with a headdress composed of ski sticks, a bob, skis, skate blades, a stick, a luge and a rifle.
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Germany's Koenigssee, the world's first ever artificial bobsleigh, skeleton and luge track, was picked as host of the world championships after they were taken away from Russia's Sochi following the country's doping scandal.
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A group believed to be linked to Russian hackers on Wednesday claims to have released documents stolen from the International Luge Federation, the latest sign of hacking efforts targeting the 2018 Winter Games.
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The coins feature winter sports, such as South Korea's traditional "Gorosoi ski" on a 30,000 won ($27) gold coin, and short track speed skating, ski jumping, and luge on the 20,000 won silver coins.
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We're given wristbands that grant us access to a bar that's better equipped—with high-end bottles, an ice-luge, and real bartenders—than any cocktail lounge that charges less than $15 a drink.
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Sweeney avoided sustaining any serious injury during her crash in the final heat of the competition, but she is still out of the games, according to AP. Another MASSIVE crash, this time in luge.
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Eurosport has experience covering winter sports and has hired 150 experts, many of them former athletes in disciplines such as ski jumping and luge, to cater for local audiences stretching from Germany to Azerbaijan.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - German luge queen Natalie Geisenberger defended her Olympic gold medal in the women's singles in style on Tuesday as her nation extended its stranglehold over the event to 20 years.
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Eurosport has experience covering winter sports and has hired 150 experts, many of them former athletes in disciplines such as ski jumping and luge, to cater for local audiences stretching from France to Azerbaijan.
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If you're into luging and really want to sink your spikes into the sport, sign up for the Luge Fantasy Camp with a coaching staff made up of Olympic and World Cup medal winners.
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But the man who owns this yard has 15 children, so they keep going until they built their very own luge, a 300-foot-long masterpiece that gave a ride lasting longer than 20 seconds.
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A teenage Keshavan shot down the luge track on a borrowed sled at Nagano in 1998 and at the age of 36, he will compete in his sixth consecutive Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre.
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During their break at Gstaad's luxury Hotel Alpina, Albert and Charlene got in a little ski time of their own, while Jacques experienced a luge ride and Princess Gabriella displayed skills at hide-and-seek.
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Germany won three of the four luge events in Pyeongchang following Natalie Geisenberger's triumph in the women's singles and victory in the men's doubles by the Bayern Express pair of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt.
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The Winter Olympics have returned to fill our lives with two weeks of skiing, skating, and hot luge action and make these deep, dark days of late winter before baseball spring training a little less awful.
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The nature of the circuit means that Geisenberger finds herself in the company of the 34-year-old Huefner and her room-mate Dajana Eitberger but she says luge is no longer a topic of conversation.
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People who don't have even a passing interest in luge and ski jumping can tune into Chang's segments to find out more about traditional Korean temple food, street snacks, and modern fare during his special assignment.
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Mazdzer became the first U.S. men's singles luge medalist ever and says he can't keep up with the way his phone's been blowing up, mostly with congratulatory DMs ... but some want him to take it off.
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The Houston Astros were THIRSTY after lockin' down their first World Series in franchise history -- so pitchers Ken Giles and James Hoyt used the Commissioner's Trophy as a beer luge to help the boys drink up!!
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The German one-two returned the smiles to the faces of the luge superpower's camp, which was crestfallen on Sunday after defending men's champion Felix Loch crashed out of the medals with a horror final run.
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It provides various services to the games, such as keeping ice rinks at the right temperature, and is the technical partner of the U.S. luge team (pictured), helping them fine-tune sleds to make them faster.
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Team USA Athletes Explain Why They Think the Winter Olympics Are More Fun Than the Summer Games Leading the U.S. crew was Olympic luger Erin Hamlin — the first U.S. athlete to win an Olympic singles luge medal.
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Thomas, 45 (although his wife, Christine, sometimes pegs him as 12), has built his kids a personal luge run every year for 15 years ("One for each child," he jokes), with this year's creation topping them all.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Surprise package David Gleirscher claimed Austria's first Olympic luge gold in 50 years at the Pyeongchang Games on Sunday after 2014 champion Felix Loch stumbled dramatically with his third successive title in sight.
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The Austrian claimed the title with an aggregate time of three minutes 10.702 seconds, just 0.026 seconds ahead of runner-up Chris Mazdzer who became the United States' first man to claim an individual Olympic luge medal.
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With little snow in his steamy homeland and no proper luge tracks to speak of, Lien speeds down mountain highways in the eastern county of Yilan on a wheeled sled when not training in the ice abroad.
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