The first luge tracks weren’t built until 300 years later. In the mid-19th century in Switzerland. Legend has it that British soldiers were sledding down a ski track in the Swiss town of St.

Having grown up one town over from renowned luge athlete Erin Hamlin — a four-time Olympian who won a bronze medal at the ...

But that thought merely scratches the surface of all the subtle physics that go into a gold-medal-winning performance. Gravity and energy Gravity is what powers the sleds down the ice-covered tracks ...

Taiwan’s Huang Liu-Chong records what is believed to be the slowest four-run luge time in Olympic history (5:22.646). 1980 Lake Placid: 1976 Olympic gold-medalist Dettlef Guenther of East Germany ...

A Minnesota dad built a large snow trail in his backyard for all the neighborhood kids to sled down ... "We call it a luge track. It takes anywhere from 45 to 50 hours of straight work to build ...

The Luge North American Continental Cup was hosted on Friday and Saturday at the Utah Olympic Park where teenagers from Park ...

The top U.S. sled was driven by Kaillie Humphries and pushed ... Jonny Gustafson was the top American in the men's race, placing 11th. Luge: World Cup at Oberhof, Germany, Dec.

ALTENBERG, Germany (AP) — Germany swept the podium spots in the first women's bobsled World Cup race of the season Sunday, with the team of Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi getting the victory.