Word: luge
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...what year was luge added to the Winter Olympic program...
...both leaders came. The Philippines, however, has no credible mechanism to assure an orderly succession. Marcos' one-man rule recalls Louis XIV's declaration, "L 'état c 'est moi," and the warning sometimes attributed to Louis XV, "Après moi le déluge...
...national morale. Highly organized programs identify promising athletes at an early age. And East Germany's training facilities are among the most elaborate and modern in the world. The years of discipline can produce less than spontaneous athletes. Asked to what she attributed her gold medal in single luge, Margit Schumann, 23, replied, "I am a lieutenant of the people's army...
This does not seem to be the case for our winter Olympic friends. And so the fabulous footage of downhill racers disappearing into groves of trees, or luge drivers sailing off a bank of glare ice into the Austrian sunset, or ski jumpers Evil Kneivling their way to the hospital, has made me reluctant to embrace the winter games...
...East Germans also did well. On Saturday, they won six out of nine possible medals in three different events, including first places in the men's and women's single luge and the 70-meter ski jump...