Luge News

The P-I front page from Nov. 12, 1968 announcing the shooting death of Officer Robert Allshaw.

The 22-year-old extreme sports fanatic raced at speeds of up to 80mph in claiming a gold medal at the event in Teutonia in the South American country.

Rural scenery, near Rotorua, New Zealand, includes open pastures, graceful hills and mountains hugged by wispy clouds.

Bothell resident breaks record, tops 76 mph in Brazil For Bothell street luger Chris McBride - an admitted adrenalin junkie - it was an ESPN viewing more than a decade ago that got him started in his sport of choice, a journey that has taken him all over the world.

Layton, Julia. "How Luge Works." 15 February 2006. HowStuffWorks.com. 10 November 2009.

Okay, so we have a rough first draft of our itinerary for our budget trip but I'm guessing we can do better.

Shiva Keshavan is set to compete in the luge event at the 2010 Olympics. He's often compared to the Jamaican bobsleigh team in 1988.

The official name for the most terrifying patch of track at the Whistler Sliding Centre is Corner 13.

Whistler Sliding Centre: Located north of Whistler Creekside, the speedy, $104.9-million sliding track for bobsled, luge and skeleton was completed in December 2007.

Jamaica's foray into bobsleigh is a well-known story, from qualifying as underdogs for the 1988 Winter Games to the 1993 movie Cool Runnings featuring John Candy.

Land grading and other preliminary construction work is under way at Muskegon State Park, where a 350-foot-long wheeled luge track is being built.

Finally, after 12 long years, the streak was over. Erin Hamlin 's sled was clocked at just over 71 miles per hour as she sped across the finish line at the 41st World Luge Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. last winter.

A luger prepares to launch down the luge track at the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex at Muskegon State Park.

Britain's top sports body has turned to the International Olympic Committee to resolve a dispute with Vancouver 2010 organizers over what the U.K. officials consider unfair restrictions on video cameras to be used by their athletes for analyzing tactics and ice conditions during February's Winter Games.

As groundwork is underway this fall on a wheeled-luge track at the Muskegon State Park, Winter Sports Council members already are dreaming of the next facility upgrade.

Charles Dickens ' most popular creation, Ebenezer Scrooge, usually takes on the tenor of the times, so it's not surprising that Robert Zemeckis ' new performance-capture animation version of "A Christmas Carol" has its star, Jim Carrey , musing about where his Scrooge fits in today.

Our friends up North are getting ready for the Winter Olympics 2010 and as a supportive neighbor I'm going to celebrate in style with an Olympic tailgate party to watch the incredible action at the Olympics.

Chris Dornan is more than your average amateur sports media communications man. He's more mad publicity stunt promoter.

In 100 days, they hope to be in Vancouver, sliding down flawless ice tracks, gliding over manicured ski trails, or rocketing off jumps in pursuit of the Olympic ideal: faster, higher, stronger. But as autumn burst into brilliant reds and yellows in this storied Adirondack hamlet, Winter Olympic hopefuls were rattling down metal ski jumps to land on plastic run-outs, doing helicopters into a 46-degree F. pool, and guiding their sleds down a refrigerated track.

They are the crest of a wave, poised to roar onto the world stage this winter. Buoyed by communities like Lake Placid, where residents deeply understand the finer points of flying, free-falling, or just plain going fast on some version of frozen water, they are riding the momentum of one of America's most successful winter-sports seasons in recent memory: 2008-09.

OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino, seen here in this July 21, 2009, file photo, said Wednesday that illegal marijuana cultivation has reached epidemic proportions in Ontario.