The result: a best-ever 34 winter medals, many in obscure sports, such as luge.
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The race to bottom is on a luge called Life-time Job Security, not Free Trade.
To remind workers of the Winter Luge, the company recently gave out snow globes.
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The result: a best-ever 34 winter medals, many of which came in obscure sports, like luge.
WHISTLER, British Columbia Olympic and defending world champion Felix Loch won his fourth world luge championship Friday night.
Germany starred in traditional Olympic sports such as biathalon, cross-county skiing and luge.
The idea being to keep those sports--such as luge and bobsledding--within existing facilities rather than keep building for them around the globe.
Their comments followed earlier accidents, including one involving gold medal favourite Armin Zoeggeler of Italy and several during women's luge training runs on Wednesday.
Georgia confirmed they will compete in the Games as a tribute to him, while organisers said the luge event will take place following an investigation.
The profile of several turns on the course, which has also been used by the luge and skeleton events, will be more forgiving for drivers.
In the Winter Games, the same is likely to be true for sports U.S. fans are traditionally less passionate about, such as curling, luge and skeleton.
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Spurred on by her speedy progress, Browne took time off from her teaching job to spend her winters touring the luge circuit in Europe and North America.
The decision to go ahead with the luge competition on Saturday was taken after probes by the Coroners Service of British Colombia and the International Luge Federation (FIL).
There are also mixed events in badminton, luge and tennis.
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"We are a family in luge, so a sudden and tragic loss such as this impacts everyone deeply, " said Rosen in a statement released by the British Olympic Association.
For most of last year, traffic to the front page was actually heading in the opposite direction, sliding (luge-ing?) close to 20 percent between April and October, according to ComScore.
The camp was designed to broaden the luge's appeal in smaller countries outside Europe where the high-speed sport has long been popular, and it certainly had an effect on Browne.
This site part of a greater network of training and racing areas includes a track for luge, skeleton and bobsledding and facilities for the biathlon (a combination of cross-country skiing and target-range shooting).
He can rattle them off in sequence, like body percussion: left arm, right arm, broken jaw, broken nose, mountain bike, BMX, skateboard, street luge, snapped finger, split brow, sprained joint, severed pinky.
The track at Whistler, which is shared by the sports of luge, skeleton and bobsleigh, already has a reputation as one of the fastest - and most dangerous - in the world.
Early on the opening day, a Georgian athlete, Nodar Kumaritashvili, was killed during a practice run when his luge flipped over, throwing him into a steel pole and raising questions about the track's safety.
The Swiss use a variety of sleds, from crude wooden frames that go sideways as fast as they go forward, to low-slung sports models that look like a luge and can be steered by warping the runners.
"This tragedy casts a shadow over these Games, " said a visibly upset International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge, while International Luge Federation chief Josef Fendt said the incident was "the gravest thing that can happen in sport".
The luge competition went ahead last Saturday after probes by the Coroners Service of British Columbia and the International Luge Federation (FIL) concluded the track was not deficient but that the athlete "did not compensate properly" going into a bend.
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