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Sliding comes naturally to Chris Moffat
Calgary's Chris Moffat is one of the Canadian youngsters making an impact on international luge, the result of the programs and facilities put in place following the 1988 Calgary Olympics. He might just surprise a few people with his partner Eric Pothier in the doubles event.
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Regan Lauscher feels lucky to be luging
Tyler Seitz: A towering presence in Canadian luge
Enjoying every thousandth of every second
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Nine minutes and 15 seconds. This was the winning time in what was billed as the Great International Sled race, the first of its kind in recorded history. Swiss slider Peter Minsch and John Robertson from Australia shared the first-place honours in this historic race, held on February 12, 1883. Just over a century later, Germany's Georg Hackl routinely wins gold medals by hundredths of seconds. |
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The requirements are raw speed and abandon, but also precision on the part of the slider, and there can seem to be a very fine line between simply hanging on through extreme speed and danger and putting together a savvy run. To call it sliding rightly implies that gravity does much of the work, but it's not nearly as passive as that. Find out more about luging's extreme speed and G-forces and its unstinting demands for exactitude.
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Compression: Part of the start motion in which the athlete draws the sled back immediately before the forward pull. The slider's knees spread, and his or her head is drawn between the legs.
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Men
The Speeding Sausage goes for a historic fourth gold.
Women
Whether it's Silke or Sylke, the Germans dominate.
Doubles
The German prodigies look for another title against the German Steffens.
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