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Lying down at 90 mph trusting your toes to steer is a personality.
means A small one- or two-person sled on which you race feet-first and face-up down an icy track, steering with subtle shifts of your body and legs.
from From French dialect 'luge,' meaning a small sled, used in the Savoy region of the French Alps. The word is likely Alpine in root — possibly related to a pre-Latin or Gaulish term for a sliding contraption — and slid into international sport vocabulary along with the sledding traditions of the Swiss and French mountains.
- top speed
- Sliders exceed 140 km/h on ice
- steering
- Done with calf pressure and subtle head tilts
- feet first
- No brakes exist; you stop by crashing
- g-force
- Curves push around 5 g on the body
- name origin
- French word simply meaning sled
for instance
felix loch — german luger with 2 olympic golds (2010, 2014) and 5 world championships