| I find it hard to imagine any activity more baffling than curling and the luge. |
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| Her mother went around their hometown of Waterford, Mich., selling chocolate suckers to help fund Jean's first luge camp when she was a teenager. |
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| Indeed, the ones who do it balanced atop a luge are so brave that they probably deserve some kind of counselling to go with the medals. |
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| The boats can haul twice the gear of a backpack, glide as effortlessly as a snowboard, and thrill like a luge. |
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| So riding the luge is a mixture of falling down a hill and laughing while doing so, and pushing and pulling handlebars. |
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| But squeeze him into a bodysuit, stick him on a luge, and he is a sporting legend. |
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| Hayden's interest in luge started when she saw the sport for the first time while watching the 1994 Olympics on television. |
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| And as well as the skiing, there is curling, skating, luge, sleigh rides and even hot-air ballooning. |
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| After sliding to a ninth-place finish in doubles luge at his second Olympics, he had a confession to make. |
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| Sled, an anomalous sculpture inspired by the equipment used in luge, is made of aluminum and plastic. |
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| Doubles luge is a one-day competition in which pairs of athletes take two runs down a course. |
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| Sports most frequently training in Lake Placid include biathlon, bobsled, figure skating, ice hockey, luge, skiing and speed skating. |
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| I started luging at 14 years of age when a luge track was built in Muskegon. |
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| The highlight of the trip for the kids was luging down the Great Wall on a special luge track. |
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| Skeleton, which is like inverted luge, has not been a medal sport since 1948 and makes its postmodern debut this year in Salt Lake. |
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| There are also certainly examples among skeleton and luge of supreme achievement, limited experience notwithstanding. |
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| Short of a luge run, Blue Heron Farm has the facilities to provide for any recreational whim. |
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| I have also mentioned an incident that happened to me in January this year, when my son and I sought to buy 10 tickets to ride the luge in Rotorua. |
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| Clicking your way past less important sports such as the luge and the skeleton you'll locate the abundance of games remaining before the gold medals are awarded. |
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| The Alpine skiing, cross-country and jumping events were held there, along with the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton. |
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| A few weeks earlier, the decision had been taken to site Utah Olympic Park on this mountain, and use it to stage the bobsleigh and luge run and ski jumping venues there. |
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| Besides automobiles, DTS has also tested an Olympic one-man luge, high-speed racing motorcycle, the University of Michigan solar team car and a land-speed record vehicle. |
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| For those who want to get in on the action, there will also be free luge rides in CODA's Ice House, ages 10 and older. |
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| A uniquely advanced track for luge, bobsleigh and skeleton, the Russian National Sliding Center will be built for 2014 Olympic Winter Games. |
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| One case holding one or two surfboards, luge boards or wakeboards. Maximum 2 boards per case. |
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| It's humiliating to celebrate an eighth-place finish in the luge. |
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| Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day. |
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| Perhaps the reason I prefer downhill skiing, luge, cross-country, speed skating, and other such sports in the Winter Olympics is that judging vagaries don't affect them. |
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| The youngest member of the US luge team, 18-year-old Tucker West, deserves some attention, too. |
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| The video shows two men in a luge, imitating a thrusting movement to propel the luge to move forward. |
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| A luge slider lying on a sled streaks down a twisting and turning icy track so fast he looks like a blur. |
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| The camp provides servicemen and women the chance to try their hand at bobsleighing, luge and skeleton luge. |
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| Then there is street luge, which involves flying down big hills lying on a skateboard. |
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| Of course, the same is true of luge and that only lasts three minutes. |
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| Add on clauses are available for bobsleighing, heliskiing, ice hockey, luge, paraskiing, ski jumping, ski racing and ski stunting. |
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| Venues for specialty sports like luge, speed skating, white water rafting and cycling are often temporary and demounted. |
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| They've even made the luge, where competitors on tea trays hurtle down a giant model of an intestine, into a relay. |
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| Soon to follow were bungy jumping, skysurfing and the unforgettable street luge. |
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| Each team member will have one timed run down the luge push-start track in CODA's Ice House, and the fastest combined time will claim the 2003 Media Luge Challenge title. |
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| Two men ride their luge sled down the bobsleigh track. |
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| Lange switched at age 19 to bobsled from another sliding sport, luge. |
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| Some sporting events were delayed or rescheduled due to blowing dust and strong winds, with downhill skiing, ski jumping, bobsled and luge experiencing the biggest setbacks. |
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| We have our fair share of local and national competitions, as well as world championships-from curling to dog sled racing, downhill skiing and luge, and snowmobile drag races on the frozen surfaces of local lakes. |
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| The complainants were concerned that the luge accident video was both violent and disturbing to viewers, as well as disrespectful and insensitive vis-à-vis the deceased luger and his grieving friends and family. |
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| Luge Team will be at the Worcester Oval for a luge demonstration and exhibition. |
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| This series was like a trendier urban version of The Games, with events like street luge and powerbocking. |
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| Despite having a badly-bruised knee from training, the Olympic champion had come out on top in the girls' street luge challenge. |
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| A two-time Olympian and Canada's only World Cup silver medallist in luge, the 28-year-old Lauscher begins the 2008 season on the comeback trail after having surgery on both of her shoulders during the off-season. |
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| Barefoot ski jumping, snowboarding, bungy jumping, skysurfing, downhill BMX and in-line, sport climbing, street luge and eco-challenge have come and gone. |
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| But how about sandboarding, street luge and barefoot waterskiing? |
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| Surfing, windsurfing, mountain biking and kitesurfing are just some of the championships that take place every October, as well as the rather dangerous-looking street luge. |
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| Competitions range from men and women's skysurfing to street luge, downhill in-line skating, bicycle stunt riding, sports climbing and a grueling roster of water sports. |
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| More than 500 competitors from 40 different countries are set to take part in over 20 adrenaline-fuelled sports such as mountain biking, land yachting and even street luge. |
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| Keshavan, like Tonga's Bruno Banani, became something of a fans' favourite in Sochi, not least because of the novelty of seeing an Indian racing down a luge track. |
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| Despite having a badly-bruised knee from training, the fiercely competitive former Olympic champion had come out on top in the girls' street luge challenge. |
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