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On 15 June 2009, the FIL announced their jury members for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The jury was to be headed by Josef Benz (Switzerland, chair of the FIL Sport Commission. Other jury members included Zianbeth Shattuck-Owen (United States), luge manager for the 2002 Games, and Markus Schmidt (Austria), men's singles bronze medalist at the 1992 ...
While the IOC does not consider luge times eligible for Olympic records, the International Luge Federation (FIL) does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes. The start and track records were set at the test event from the women's singles/ men's doubles start house for the 2010 Games on 20 February 2009.
The men's luge at the 2010 Winter Olympics took place on 13–14 February 2010 at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, British Columbia. [1] Germany's Felix Loch was the two-time defending world champion and won the gold medal with the fastest time in each of the four runs. [2]
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXI es Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010 (Squamish: K'emk'emeláy̓ 2010), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the ...
David Kumaritashvili, father of the Georgia luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who killed on an Olympic training run, shows a photo his son e-mailed from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. (AP) (ap)
The United States finished the 2010 Olympic Games by setting a new record for the most medals won by a single country at a Winter Olympics. The previous record of 36 was set by Germany at the 2002 Winter Olympics ; with the silver medal won by the men's hockey team in the final Olympic event of 2010, the U.S. earned their 37th medal of the ...
While the IOC does not consider luge times eligible for Olympic records, the International Luge Federation (FIL) does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes. These records were set during the test event at the women's singles/ men's doubles start house for the 2010 Games on 20 February 2009.
Natalie Geisenberger of Germany is the most successful Olympic luger, having won six gold medals and a bronze attained in four consecutive Olympics (three golds and a bronze in singles, and 3 golds in team relay). Armin Zöggeler is the only athlete to have won one medal in a single individual event in six Olympics (furthermore consecutive).