Every time the Olympics roll around, the world is treated to a series of sports that most people know nothing about. Sure, there are the mainstays – basketball or swimming in the summer, hockey or ...

To an amateur's eye, skeleton and luge may just seem like extreme forms of sledding, but these two Winter Olympics sports are far more dangerous than the latter. And, while luge and skeleton may seem ...

Luge made its Olympic debut at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria. The program included three events: men’s singles, women’s singles and doubles, which have remained Olympic staples ever ...

NBC Olympics shared a video of the Olympic luge track from an athlete's point of view, and I am, in a word, unwell. As in, I think my heart may be racing faster than this luger, and that's really ...

Summer Britcher, 27, is gearing up to compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She was the first team member to officially qualify for the 2022 USA luge singles team. Her other women’s singles ...

BEIJING — Four years after her devastating crash at the Pyeongchang Olympics, U.S. luge racer Emily Sweeney struggled again Monday on the track in the mountains outside Beijing. She looked strong ...

Yanqing , China - 7 February 2022: Summer Britcher of United States during the Women’s Luge event on day three of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Sliding Park in Yanqing, China. (Photo By ...

BEIJING — When Saba Kumaritashvili took to the ice at the Yanqing sled-racing venue in the mountains near Beijing on Saturday he was facing some of the best lugers in the world. He was also facing a ...

On July 25, 2025, in New York, USA, @dansie_xgames shared a video of a street luge accident. In the footage, the author rides a street luge board down a curvy road. Approaching a sharp curve, he ...

YANQING, China, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The giants of German luge combined their immense talents to take gold in the team relay on Thursday night, in a performance that underlined their mastery of the ...