61. KIAT.NET - Olympic Winter Games Luge luge made its olympic debut in Innsbruck at the 1964 olympic Winter Games with He is the only olympic athlete in history to medal in five olympic Games. http://www.kiat.net/olympics/sports/winter/luge.html

@import url(style/default.css); kiat.net where are you :: home Olympics Sports Luge WINTER OLYMPICS LUGE OLYMPIC SPORT SINCE 1964 LUGE The first World Championships occurred on an artificial track in Oslo in 1955. Two years later, the International Luge Federation (FIL) was founded in Davos and remains the governing body of luge today. Luge made its Olympic debut in Innsbruck at the 1964 Olympic Winter Games with three events - men's, women's and doubles. These three events have been a part of every Olympics since 1964. Through the 1992 Olympics, the doubles event was known as men's doubles. After Albertville, the International Luge Federation (FIL) changed doubles to a mixed-gender competition. Since the ruling has been made, however, no mixed-gender teams have appeared in the Olympics. Of the 99 medals that have been awarded since 1964, 95 of them have gone to athletes from Germany, Austria, Italy or the former Soviet Union. The only four exceptions occurred when the United States won the silver and bronze medal in the doubles competition at the 1998 Nagano Games and again at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. This spectacular sport was dominated by East Germans from 1964 - 1988, during which time they won an incredible 15 of 21 gold medals on offer. A German by the name of Georg Hackl, who used to race for the former West Germany, is the undisputed king of luge and he has won the gold medal at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Olympic Games on top of his 2 silver medals in the 1988 and 2002 Games. He is the only Olympic athlete in history to medal in five Olympic Games.

62. Kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games St Moritz 1928 both gold and silver in the only fiveman competition in olympic history. (luge sport added; Biathlon Curling removed, 2 events removed in Speed http://www.kiat.net/olympics/history/winter/w02stmoritz.html

@import url(../../../style/default.css); kiat.net where are you :: home Olympics History St Moritz 1928 II (2nd) WINTER GAMES St Moritz, SUI St Moritz, Switzerland IInd WINTER GAMES February 11 - 19, 1928 Mascot - none 25 countries, 464 athletes (26 women) 5 sports, 13 events Opening - President Edmund Schulthess Torch lit by - none The Swiss got the Games due to Holland backing out Another famous tourist resort, St. Moritz in Switzerland, played host to the second edition of the Winter Games. With the first Olympic Winter Games an enormous success, it was no surprise that the St. Moritz Games attracted an 84 percent increase in the number of participants including a 100% increase of female athletes. The Games started poorly due to extremely mild temperatures caused by the "fohn", the warm wind that sweeps the Swiss mountains from the south. The 1928 Winter Games in St. Moritz marked the first time Germany was allowed to participate in any Olympic competition after World War I; the Soviet Union was still notably absent. The Germans won a disappointing one bronze medal. Bobsledding was in the news at the 1928 Games. A new event, the skeleton sled, was upgraded from a demonstration sport and added to the program. In addition, teams in the four-man bobsled event had an option to include a fifth member. They all took up that option.

63. Usnews.com - Winter Olympics 2002 - Sport-By-Sport Guide At 5foot-8 and 176 pounds, he has been tagged the racing white sausage, butno matter He s the most decorated luge athlete in olympic history, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/olympics/winter/articles/roundup.htm

'); document.write(' '); document.write(' ');document.write(' '); document.write(' Best Colleges Best Grad Schools E-learning Auto Reviews ... Market@usnews CROSS-COUNTRY It's not boring; it's a magnificent feat of fitness and endurance Cross-country aficionados bummed over sparse coverage will get their fill of snowy swooshing this year. NBC has staked out over 30 camera positions along busy Soldier Hollow's trails and plans to televise more of the races than ever before. (The relatively action-packed relays air on NBC February 17 and 21.) But the skiing isn't exactly hair-raising, what with its lack of leaping, speeding, and spinning. The sport's want of "wow factor" is offset by its focus on fitness and endurance, says Paul Robbins, a spokesman for the U.S. ski team. Per Elofsson of Sweden, the defending World Cup champ, trains by running through swamps and roller skiing up mountains. Russia, Norway, Finland, and Italy are, with Sweden, on track to repeat past victories. The U.S. team is the strongest since 1984, Robbins says, but the Arctic countries live for this stuff. -Samantha Levine NORDIC COMBINED When cross-country skiing isn't enough, add scary jumps

64. Olympic Inspirational Stories. luge has been called the last bit of insanity left in the olympics. The track isalmost a mile I learned about olympic history and olympic philosophy. http://www.thelugeman.com/inspirational-stories.htm

Olympic inspirational stories you will never forget. Ruben Gonzalez the Luge Man Three Time Olympian Inspirational Stories Inspirational Speaker Home Inspirational Keynote Rave Reviews Client List ... Inspirational Tapes FREE Success Course! How to Maximize Your Abilities and Become Unstoppable! click here Click here to get the CD! Read Ruben’s Book The Courage to Succeed (click here) Ruben's Inspirational Story click here to listen to an inspirational Olympic story... (2 minute audio for fast connections) They call it "The Miracle in Lake Placid." It was February 22, 1980 - George Washington’s Birthday. The story of David and Goliath was about to repeat itself. The young, scrawny, inexperienced US Hockey team was about to face the mighty Russian Team at the Lake Placid Olympic Games. Nobody thought the Americans had a chance to win. They were just a college squad. The Russian team was the best in the world. Somehow, the Americans beat the Russians 4-3. It was really a "Miracle in Lake Placid."

65. Luge (IOC) lists out a brief history of each of the previous olympic Games.luge.com history of luge A brief history of the sport of luge Sledding. http://www.reference.com/Dir/Sports/Sledding/Olympic/Luge/

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66. The Washington Diplomat most prolific luge athlete of all time, is looking to make olympic history in The German women are also in pursuit of olympic gold. Top luge sliders http://www.washdiplomat.com/02-02/a2_02_02.html

February 2002 Washington Diplomat PO Box 1345 Wheaton, MD 20915 Tel: 301.933.3552 Fax: 301.949.0065 Quest for Olympic Glory Profile of Best International Athletes Heating Up 2002 Winter Games by Anna Gawel Russian Rivalry But more recently she has recouped, edging past Kwan in six of their last eight major meetings. In jumping ability, Slutskaya clearly reigns supreme. She became the first woman to land a triple-Lutz, triple-loop combination at the 2000 Grand Prix Final, for which she received a rare 6.0 for technical merit. But Slutskaya lacks the grace that Kwan is renowned for, and her technical prowess has been inconsistent. Despite the scores of accolades, Hackl has also experienced his share of setbacks. A crash at the 1999 World Championships kept him off the podium for the first time since 1986, and problems with his sled plagued his performance at the Worlds the following year as well, where he only managed to muster a third-place finish. The German women are also in pursuit of Olympic gold. Top luge sliders such as Sylke Otto, defending Olympic champ Silke Kraushaar and Barbara Niedernhuber have been besting each other by the narrowest of margins in recent competitions: Kraushaar beat Niedernhuber by a mere two-thousands of a second at the Nagano Games, and Otto in turn overtook Kraushaar at the 2001 European championships by .759 seconds, setting the stage for what it is sure to be a tight, photo-finish at Salt Lake City.

67. The Voice Of Russia ( Olympic Games 2002 ) history OF WINTER olympic GAMES Programme was expanded with luge. Despiteopposition that the sport is dangerous it was included in the programme. http://www.vor.ru/Olymp/history_eng.html

HISTORY OF WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES THE ORIGIN OF OLYMPIC GAMES THE REVIVAL OF OLYMPIC GAMES THE ORIGIN OF WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES I /CHAMONIX, FRANCE, 1924/ ... WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES XVIII /NAGANO, JAPAN, 1998/ THE ORIGIN OF OLYMPIC GAMES The idea of holding Olympic Games has its roots in Greek mythology. The first recorded Olympics were held in 776 B.C. They were sponsored to honor the god Zeus on the plain of Olympia in the west of the Peloponnesus Peninsula.The first recorded Olympics were won by an athlete from the town of Elida, Coroebus. In ancient Greece only free men of Greek origin could take part in the Olympics.Competitions were always tough, and the prize awarded to winners was a garland of wild olive, but beyond this the victorious athletes earned great honour and esteem not only in their native town but also in the Greek world as a whole. MODERN REVIVAL OF OLYMPIC GAMES Baron de Coubertin, a Frenchman, inspired the Olympic revival. Owing to his great effort the International Olympic Committee was set up on June 23, 1894. To the present day the Committee is the highest governing body of the Olympic Movement. The first international competitions similar to ancient Greek Olympiads were held in the city of Athenes in 1896. They were held in 9 separate sportstrack and field, gymnastics, swimming, weight lifting, wrestling, shooting, fencing, cycling race and tennis. From that time on Olympic Games became a major international event in sports. They were held in many cities of the world, including Moscow /1980/.The Olympic cycle of four years was interrupted only three times: in 1916 because of the First World War and in 1940 and 1944 because of the Second World War.

68. History The bobsleigh track at La Plagne was built for the olympic Games Since 1992the track has been open every winter for bobsleighing, luge and skeleton. http://www.bobsleigh.net/historique_e.htm

SOME HISTORY The bobsleigh track at La Plagne was built for the Olympic Games Albertville in 1992.The various sports took place in 13 different areas. The bobsleigh track was built in La Plagne thanks to the enthusiasm of the club here.The bobsleigh club in Macot La Plagne was the only club in the Savoie region which still had active members.It used the old mining track in La Plagne to organise bob competitions on the road. From the 8 th to the 23 rd February 1992 the Olympic track in La Plagne welcomed 350 athletes from 27 different countries to take part in the 3 different luge competitions:Men’s singles, women’s singles and men’s doubles, and the 2 different bobsleigh competitions:Two man Bob and four man Bob. Since 1992 the track has been open every winter for bobsleighing, luge and skeleton.It is the only track in France. Clubs and teams from all over the world come here to train and take part in the various competitions throughout the season. The track is open most evenings for the public to try the Bob-Raft and the Taxi-Bob. About 10 000 people have already experienced the trills of these activities. OTHER TRACKS IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD St MORIT Z (Switzerland) Winter Olympic games 1928 LAKE PLACID (USA) Winter Olympic games 1932 St. MORITZS

69. MITCH ALBOM: Almost Nothing Can Beat Sausage Speeding White Sausage made some wafflesized olympic history Monday. Hackl, 35, is simply the king of luge, a sport in which the whole idea is to http://www.freep.com/sports/albom/mitch12_20020212.htm

Home News Sports Entertainment ... Marketplace COLUMNISTS Mitch Albom Michael Rosenberg Drew Sharp THE PROS The Puck Lions Tigers Pistons ... Shock COLLEGE U-M MSU Other schools LOCAL/STATE Preps Outdoors NATIONAL Hockey Football Baseball Basketball ... Home delivery MITCH ALBOM: Almost nothing can beat Sausage February 12, 2002 BY MITCH ALBOM FREE PRESS COLUMNIST PARK CITY, Utah Sure, I'd love to be an Olympic athlete. But not if my nickname has to be "The Speeding White Sausage." Don't get me wrong. I'll bet there's an endorsement deal in there somewhere, maybe with Denny's. But when it comes to powerful athletic images, "The Speeding White Sausage" leaves me cold. Cold sausage. Ugh. That's even worse. Nonetheless, the man known as "The Speeding White Sausage" made some waffle-sized Olympic history Monday. Germany's Georg Hackl, who has been described as "linklike" another phrase I never want associated with my career won a silver medal in the men's luge singles. That goes with his gold medal from the 1998 games, his gold from 1994, his gold from 1992 and his silver from 1988. Five Olympics. Five medals. All gold or silver. Wow. The last breakfast meat to be that celebrated was Kevin Bacon. Or Jack Ham. Or Chief Justice Warren Burger.

70. Detroit Free Press - 98 Olympics luge An engaging finish Our favorite nicknames of olympic athletes Women make olympic history Russia wins first medals of Nagano Games http://www.freep.com/index/98olympics.htm

American athletes enter the Nagano closing ceremonies with a sign for the next Winter Olympics. (AP photo by Amy Sancetta) February 25, 1998 Celebrations for Olympic heroines planned February 23, 1998 Life's still a blur as Tara prepares to leave Japan Final day standings and highlights CBS individuals win medals; team gold to CBC Tara beats Tiger on Channel 62 ... ALBOM: Nagano taught us to take our shoes off and to open our minds to change February 22, 1998 BOBSLED: U.S. bobsledders miss medal by .02 seconds People of Nagano are the champions of these Olympics MEN'S HOCKEY: No hockey gold, no happiness in Great White North FIGURE SKATING: Lipinski, Candeloro show-stoppers at figure skating exhibition ... SKIING: Norway's Dahlie gets 8th gold, winning 50-kilometer cross-country race February 21, 1998 Tara's medal just the tip of the gold mine WWJ, CBC get the gold for brilliance DAY 16: TV schedule and highlights ALBOM: Tara's gold rush ... Earth moves; Tomba quits; records fall February 20, 1998 ALBOM: More bomb than Bomba now, but he still hungers FIGURE SKATING: Thomas lost on the ice but wins game of life MEN'S HOCKEY: The 'Team' in Canada is why they're winners TV: Not all the spin moves are on the ice (see Channel 62) ... FIGURE SKATING: Eldredge might not be retiring kind February 19, 1998 MEN'S HOCKEY: Canada Wings it: Yzerman, Shanny score in 4-1 win

71. Olympics: Swiss Soars To Fame With 2nd Ski-jump Gold Ammann soared above the Wasatch Mountains and into olympic history Wednesday, WOMEN S luge Becky Wilczak s olympic story didn t end with a medal, http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/14/Olympics/Swiss_soars_to_fame_w.shtml

The games Feb. 8-24, 2002 Olympics Coverage Photo Galleries Feb. 9, 2002 Opening night Feb. 10, 2002 Day one events Feb. 11, 2002 Day two events Feb. 12, 2002 Day three events Feb. 13, 2002 Day four events Feb. 14, 2002 Day five events Feb. 15, 2002 Day six events Feb. 16, 2002 Day seven events Feb. 17, 2002 Day eight events Feb. 18, 2002 Day nine events Feb. 19, 2002 Day 10 events Feb. 20, 2002 Day 11 events Feb. 21, 2002 Day 12 events Feb. 22, 2002 Day 13 events Feb. 23, 2002 Day 14 events Feb. 24, 2002 Day 15 events Feb. 25, 2002 closing ceremony Special links Salt Lake 2002 U.S. Olympic Committee International Olympic Committee NBC Olympics Interactive Forums: Follow your sport at our message boards Times sites Sports Swiss soars to fame with 2nd ski-jump gold Compiled from Times wires published February 14, 2002 PARK CITY, Utah Simon Ammann was 8 when he first started jumping off a hill in the shadows of the Swiss Alps. He didn't fly, however, until coming to Utah. Ammann soared above the Wasatch Mountains and into Olympic history Wednesday, winning his second gold medal of these Games by surprising the field in the 120-meter event. The Swiss, who is 20 but could pass for 14, joined Finland's Matti Nykanen as the only jumpers to win both the 120- and 90-meter events in the same Olympics. Nykanen did it in Calgary in 1988.

72. Discovering Western Canada's Olympic Spirit: From Calgary To Vancouver - Press R Tour Canada’s only olympic bobsleigh/luge track in the Ice House and end the This will be the first time in olympic history that these ceremonies will http://www.ski-canada.com/news/articles/pr-rel/can05-14-04.html

Home Best Deals Get a Quote Resorts ... Contact Us Vol. 1 No. 8 May 14, 2004 About the Report Contributors Current Issue Issues by Date ... Report Home Subscribe: Free Ski News! To subscribe to The SkiCanada Report, click below and send an e-mail. Join SkiCanada Report By Jeff Lukovich Just 600 miles separate two cities bonded by Olympic spirit. Calgary - a bustling city set in the Rocky Mountain foothills, host of the 1988 Winter Olympics, and Vancouver - a vibrant multicultural metropolis bounded by ocean and mountains, set to play host of the future 2010 Winter Olympics. Between the two lies a world to discover: a vast, varied terrain with charming towns and spectacular vistas. A good place to begin your search for the spirit and legacy of Olympics past is at Canada Olympic Park, just 15 minutes from downtown Calgary on the Trans-Canada Highway. This site of freestyle skiing, bobsleigh, luge and ski jumping during the XV Olympic Winter Games is now a year-round sport and tourist attraction. Current Issue Top Just 45 minutes southwest of Calgary, over 4,000 square kilometer area of stunning mountain scenery and recreation possibilities awaits visitors in Kananaskis Country. The Nakiska ski area, in the heart of the Kananaskis Valley, was specially built to host the 1988 alpine events. The region spans both the foothills and the Rockies and offers a large variety of seasonal activities ranging from golfing to dog sledding, from skiing to mountain biking.

73. HISTORY The historic events foundation of the International olympic Committee and the 27 athletes in six events represented Latvia bobsleigh, luge, biathlon, http://www.eurolympic.org/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/373?language=eng

74. NPR : Snowboarder Rides 'The Zone' To A Gold Medal, 2002 Winter Olympics, A Spec Georg Hackl of Germany competes in the men s luge singles. zigzagging courseand became the sixth Austrian downhill champion in olympic history. http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/olympics2002/athletes/020211.clark.html

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75. Winter History The US win was perhaps the biggest upset in winter olympic history. It issimilar to luge except athletes go down head first and on their stomachs http://www.fccps.k12.va.us/gm/webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/winterhistory.html

History of the Winter Olympics The first Winter Olympics were first called the International Winter Sports week and only consisted of five events, nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey, and bobsledding. The Modern Olympics Founder, Baron Pierre se Coubertin made objections to a winter olympics, however complaints from him would be overridden as the first Olympic Winter Games started in Charminoix, France. The 16-nation field was dominated by the Scandinavian countries. They were expected to win many medals in the winter sports. Norway won 27 of the 43 medals combined which included all the nordic events and four of the five speed skating events. Although the Scandinavians were the heavy favorites for medals AMerican Charles Jewtraw won the first event in the games in 500 meters, a huge upset. Perhaps the most memorable moment was the bronze medal awarded the American ski jumper Anders Haugen. However due to a scoring error he didn't recieve his medal until 1974. The 1928 olympics opened in St. Moritz. The only good thing about these Olympics was that Sonja Henie of Norway won three gold medals and Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden set his third straight victory in the Winter Games. The warm weather of these games destroyed the bobsledding courses and cross-country skiing runs slowing them. The 10,000 meter speed skating race was cancelled due to the slush left on the rink. The 1932 were held in Lake Placid. American speed-skater Irving Jaffee set a record for the 10,000-meter and won gold just to lose it when the event was cancelled because of thawing conditions. There were again five skating races and for the first time in Olympic History they were run as races instead of an ice event.

76. Spotlight From olympic luge to Law, Student Takes on Life at Breakneck Speed history,indeed. luge—perhaps best described as race sledding—became a passion to http://www.abanet.org/lsd/stulawyer/oct99/spotlight.html

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77. Finally, U.S. Lugers Take The Stand: 2/14/98 of Germany are the most decorated doubles sliders in olympic history. luge doubles, where the big guys Thorpe and Grimmette lie on top of the http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/02-98/02-14-98/c03sp104.htm

... Learn more about New Bedford's history. Finally, U.S. lugers take the stand By John Kekis, Associated Press writer NAGANO, Japan Talk about being low. Two years ago, Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin had to pay their own way to their first World Cup luge race. And last month, with the Winter Olympics looming, Chris Thorpe broke a bone in his right wrist while training with doubles partner Gordy Sheer. Talk about being high. On Friday, both teams won medals Thorpe and Sheer the silver, and Grimmette and Martin the bronze to break the United States' 34-year Olympic jinx in the sport. "I think breaking my hand helped," said the 27-year-old Thorpe, of Marquette, Mich. "It distracted us a little bit. We knew we were definitely at a disadvantage, and we started to go up from there." Some in the crowd seemed to be gasping for air as the last run began Friday with both U.S. teams in medal contention. Heck, another Olympic disaster remember Duncan Kennedy's crash four years ago at Lillehammer when he was on the verge of winning bronze? wouldn't have surprised anybody. "I didn't breathe for an hour," said Ron Rossi, executive director of the U.S. Luge Association. "A lot of people have been working for a long time, some of us 20 years, to get us over the hump."

78. Stories For Students For instance, in one of the headlines we ve already seen, olympic luge competitorsGeorg Hackl will take their place in the annals of olympic history. http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/02/021802_sportswriting.jhtml

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79. SPORT Eagan remains the only person in olympic history to earn gold medals in both in singles luge, Georg Hackl became the first person in olympic history to http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ksargsya/sport/olymp/olzim.htm

80. Olympic Games, Spirit And Modern History The most important thing in the olympic Games is not to win but to take part, The biathlon, bobsled and luge, crosscountry skiing, skating and many of http://2002.uen.org/html/sports/lessons/olympicgames.html

Olympic Games, Spirit and Modern History " The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." Olympic Creed The Olympic Movement The first recorded Ancient Games was held in 776 B.C. in ancient Europe, but evidence suggests that Games were being held long before that. Originally, competition consisted of a single foot race over a distance of 200 meters, but within a short time, the event grew to include five sports or a pentathlon. The "Olympiad" became an important event and was held every four years. During Olympic years, warring city-states were encouraged to lay down their weapons and to compete in peace on the playing field instead of on the battlefield. The Olympic Games were canceled in 394 A.D. for religious reasons. Greece, as part of the Roman Empire, had become Christian and the games were considered Pagan. Centuries later, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French educator and historian, recommended that the Olympic Games be restored. Coubertin believed in the spirit of Olympism; a set of values that enhance the physical, intellectual and spiritual growth of participants through sport, art and music, while promoting friendship and understanding throughout the world. Due to his work, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established and Athens, Greece had the honor of being the first city to host the modern Games in the year l896. June 23, l896 was designated as "Olympic Day" throughout the world.

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