What is Luga?

Luge is a winter sledding sport, first invented in the 19th century in Switzerland. The term can refer to sports or sled used to slip ice tracks with lots of curves. In this sport, the riders lie on the back of the sleigh and carefully control the curves with their feet and shoulder movements. In the World Cup and Olympic Cup competitions there are individual gender riders and two events. In St. Moritz in Switzerland guests stayed in various medical centers for residents when they used a small sled to slide along the streets of the city. Hotelier Caspar Badrutt built the inhabitants safe so they could trace the guests to bet on the content of their hearts.

At the end of the 19th century, Luge became a real competitive sport and Luge took much longer to become an Olympic sport. It was not a repkrajka skeletal sledding at modern Olympics until 1964. Since then, the sport has been very used as part of the Olympics due to fast speeds, hard curves and flying SLEpire aspects of Luge.

There are two types of songs today. There are natural tracks that do not have curves and do not require artificial cooling. Other traces are built with banking curves and planes, and most rely on cooling to make the track icy. Most of the events allow Luger to qualify for a specific time before competing in the "main" competition, which will then determine who will win, and the victory is based on the publication of the best time to cross the target line.

The length of the course may vary from about 2461 stop-3937 feet (approximately 750-1200 meters). Women's events often have a shorter course than men, but use the same track and start on the track than Ján. Survey is built to go very quickly, sometimes higher than 90 km / h (144.84 km / h), which makes Luge the fastest of the sledge sports. Open from glass fibers sitting on top of two steel runners called bladesor steel. Squads also have handles, which can help control with sled speed.

Since he became world sport, Europeans have dominated. Americans and Canadians, although they behaved well in many winter sports, were not the best Lugers in the world, only a handful of bronze and silver medals at the World Cup events and the Winter Olympics. Countries that seem to produce the most experienced Lugers include Germany, Austria and Italy.