Word: luge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hottest Sibling Rivalry: Italy's Huber brothers. Wilfried and Norbert won gold and silver, respectively, in the doubles luge, while Gunther won a bronze in the two-man bobsled. Arnold was fourth in the singles luge...
Take for example the ever-popular luge. I want to meet the man who invented this sport. That is, if he's not presently in a house with padded walls...
Sure, the event already exists, but compared to the luge, the bobsled, the ski jump and other events, it is slightly on the boring side in its present form...
German women's luge coach Sepp Lenz is back at work, hobbling on one leg. He lost the other last December when U.S. slider Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon collided with him on a track in Winterberg, Germany, after he failed to hear the "all-clear" signal that indicated she had started her race. He, of course, will never be the same; perhaps neither will she. German and American lugers had another, even darker, intersection last October, when skinheads beat up medal hopeful Duncan Kennedy, who intervened in a barroom incident to protect teammate Robert Pipkins, a target because he is black...
...second phase of comic relief occurred when the Callbacks reenacted National Lampoon's Griswold family competing for the gold medal in nothing less than the luge. The ever-present and irksome Scott Hamilton asked the predictable "Where are you folks going now that you've won the gold?" The audience gave the only appropriate response--Wallyworld...