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 Luge

Did you know? Luge is the Frenc work for Sleight.
==With the Luge being one of the oldest Olympic sports, the Luge is a competitive sport in the winter Olympics. It consists of samll type of sled in which you compete in single or in pairs, both men and women. When you are racing you slide laying face up, with your feet first, down an icy chute just like bobsledding. To steer your way around the course you hsve to be able to shift your weight, pulling straps attached to the runners or using the feet.== ==Casper Badrutt was the inventer of the luge. With riders exceeding over 90km/h it makes the luge one of the fastest sports in the Winter Olympics. In the luge there are three divisions and they are the men's singles, women singles and the doubles which can be of either gender but are usually made up of to two men.== ==Germany, Austria, Italy, and the former Soviet Union Cuntries and the United States of America are all part participants of the luge at the Winter Olympics. Wolfgang Linger and Andreas Linger are brothers from Austria who won their first gold medal at the 2006 games at Toronto. They won their 2 gold medals in competing in double luge. Armin Zoggeler who is Italian has won gold medal in both 2002 and 2006.==

Oswald Haselrieder
Bibliography: [|http://sports].espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2010/luge/news/story?id=4923061 [|www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=424&tx_ttnews%5Btt]... [] []



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