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  2. Luge at the Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Luge is a winter sport featured at the Winter Olympic Games where a competitor or two-person team rides a flat sled while lying supine (face up) and feet first. The sport is usually contested on a specially designed ice track that allows gravity to increase the sled's speed. The winner normally completes the route with the fastest overall time.

  3. Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track which is one of the Yanqing cluster venues between 5 and 10 February 2022. [1]A total of 106 quota spots were distributed to the sport of luge, a decline of four from the 2018 Winter Olympics. [2]

  4. Luge - Wikipedia

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    After it had been decided that luge would replace the sport of skeleton at the Olympic Games, the first World Championships in the sport were held in 1955 in Oslo . In 1957, the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL, International Luge Federation) was founded. Luge events were first included in the Olympic Winter Games in 1964.

  5. Luge killed his cousin. He slid to the Olympics anyway [Video]

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    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)

  6. Luge at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Luge at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics took place from 20 to 23 January 2024 at the Alpensia Sliding Centre, Daegwallyeong-myeon, South Korea. [1] Schedule.

  7. List of Olympic medalists in luge - Wikipedia

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    Luge is one of the seven Olympic sports currently contested at the Winter Olympic Games. [1] It has been a constant presence in the Olympic program since its introduction at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, [2] in the form of three events: men's singles, women's singles, and doubles.

  8. Dad helps kids create ‘home Olympics’ luge event on the ...

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  9. Bobsled, luge in 2026 Olympic Games could be coming to United ...

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    With the site of sliding events at the 2026 Winter Games in Italy still in doubt, the United States has entered a bid to host bobsled, luge and skeleton in Lake Placid.