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It was luge's first fatality since 10 December 1975, when Italian luger Luigi Craffonara had been killed. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Kumaritashvili became the fourth athlete to die during preparations for a Winter Olympics, after British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki and Australian skier Ross Milne (both 1964 Innsbruck ), and Swiss speed skier Nicolas ...
Aleko oversaw the construction of Georgia’s first luge track in the 1970s. His son and grandson took advantage. Saba’s grandfather, Felix, slid to the Junior European Championships a few years ...
Furthermore, the Whistler Sliding Centre, which had recorded some of the fastest speeds in luge history, was the site of several non-fatal accidents during training runs leading up to the start of the games. [1] For more than a year prior to the Olympics, luge competitors had complained that the track was too fast and the turns were too dangerous.
The term bus plunge is an idiom referencing a journalistic practice of reporting bus accidents in short articles that describe the vehicle as "plunging" from a bridge or hillside road. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The phenomenon has been noted in The New York Times , which published many bus plunge stories from the 1950s through the 1980s, running about ...
The International Luge Federation said Kindl is the fourth men’s slider to pull off such a weekend sweep, joining Norbert Huber (who did it three times in 1985 and 1986), Hansjörg Raffl (who ...
The 2025 FIL European Luge Championships were held from 18 to 19 January 2025 in Winterberg, Germany. [1] Schedule. Five events were held. [2]
Zach DiGregorio and Sean Hollander gave the U.S. its first luge World Cup doubles gold medal in nearly 18 years on Friday, winning the opening race of the season at Mount Van Hoevenberg.
The men's singles luge competition at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held from 30 January to 4 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck. [1] Tragedy affected the event as British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki was killed during a practice run on January 23, seven days before the start of the competition.