Much of the excitement of a luge run is easy to miss – the athletes’ movements ... It would be easy to assume that the competitors are simply falling or sliding down a track at the whim of gravity.

While it may not look it to the naked eye, luge is one of the most complex sports at the Winter Olympics. Athletes race feet-first down an icy track without mechanical breaks, using only slight ...

Sarajevo's bullet-ridden Olympic luge run is at the center of 'The Track,' a documentary holding its world premiere at ...

The first luge tracks weren’t built until 300 years later. In the mid-19th century in Switzerland. Legend has it that British soldiers were sledding down a ski track in the Swiss town of St ...

Winter weather has returned to West Michigan. And with no major thaws in sight, the Muskegon Luge Adventure Sports Park is embracing the cold by opening for business. The persistent cold and ...

Birgit Platzer of Austria arrives to the finish after her third run in the Women's Luge Singles at the Sanki Sliding Center during Sochi's 2014 Olympic Games on Feb. 11. Medal winners were Germany ...

(ATR) The luge track for the Vancouver Olympics is shut while the British Columbia coroner investigates the crash that killed Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili during training Friday morning.