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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.
Luge - men's singles Track Armin Zöggeler - Italy: 30 November 2002 44.516 Luge - women's singles Start Tatjana Hüfner - Germany: 21 November 2009 4.913 Luge - women's singles Track Sylke Otto - Germany: 9 December 2005 46.543 Luge - men's doubles Start Italy - Christian Oberstolz & Patrick Gruber: 14 February 2009 1.102 Luge - men's doubles ...
7 Ice hockey. 8 Luge. 9 Nordic combined. ... (luge) Medals Ranked 3rd: Gold 4 Silver 4 Bronze 0 Total 8: ... Team Event First round Consolation game
The luge track used for the 1980 Winter Olympics had two different settings to the different start houses used during the competition. For the men's singles event, the track consisted of 14 curves that was 1.014 km (0.630 mi) long with a vertical drop of 95.55 m (313.5 ft), a maximum gradient of 30% and an average grade of 9.35%. [ 31 ]
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.
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Ratings in Germany for the luge events had six million viewers for the women's singles luge events, generating a 25.6 percent share and a 34 ranking according to ARD and ZDF. The last run of the men's singles event had a share of 30.3 percent (1.82 million viewers) while the third run of the event had been watched by 5.32 million viewers (17.1 ...
Team relay details Italy Alexandra Oberstolz Leon Haselrieder Philipp Brunner Manuel Weissensteiner: 2:29.470 Latvia Margita Sirsniņa Edvards Marts Markitāns Jānis Gruzdulis-Borovojs Ēdens Eduards Čepulis: 2:30.299 Austria Marie Riedl Paul Socher Johannes Scharnagl Moritz Schiegl: 2:30.421