While it may not look it to the naked eye, luge is one of the most complex sports at the Winter Olympics. Athletes race feet-first down an icy track without mechanical breaks, using only slight ...

1964 Innsbruck: Luge makes its Olympic debut. The inaugural competition comprises three events: men’s singles, women’s singles, and doubles. The same events have appeared in every subsequent Games, ...

“Well, here we are.” Olympic bronze medalist Dominik Fischnaller was the second athlete down the track on his luge before Simone Bertazzo and Eric Fantazzini made a two-man bobsled ru ...

“Sarajevo’s luge track, built for the 1984 Winter Games, is now a bullet-holed, graffitied tourist attraction,” Bedatri Choudhury writes in the SFFILM program. “But where outsiders see war ...

There was concern that the venue for bobsled, luge and skeleton might not be ready in time for next February's Games. The International Olympic Committee even demanded a Plan B option that could ...

Luge officials have called off plans to hold a World Cup race this season on the newly built track for the 2022 Beijing Olympics, citing the ongoing concerns about international travel during the ...