Luge at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[SalamAkhi 352]

Just now, bmo said:

Germany has been underwhelming so far, but they are still going to come away with two gold medals lol

Those two are almost mandatory  No way Germans actually cheer for those golds. 

[Grassmarket 4,172]

27 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

I don't follow the sport. How it comes that many people who dominate the regular world cup seems far behind here ? Is it usual ?

Yeah, the nations that have Home tracks - Germans, americans, Latvians etc - start luge at about 10 years old.  Bobsleigh & skeleton, not until late teens.

[SalamAkhi 352]

2 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Yeah, the nations that have Home tracks - Germans, americans, Latvians etc - start luge at about 10 years old.  Bobsleigh & skeleton, not until late teens.

That was not the question though lol.
And we do have a track but absolutely 0 lugeur 

[rybak 3,361]

I'm hoping that Elina Bota will make it and will enter  to medal table tonight!

[Matteo92 175]

+2.5° C in Cortina, disaster for Italy 

[Matteo92 175]

Aparjode super fast, excellent sign for Bota.

[De_Gambassi 1,317]

6 minutes ago, Matteo92 said:

+2.5° C in Cortina, disaster for Italy 

Why ?

[Gianlu33 5,679]

4 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Why ?

Italy only has competitive sleds when temperatures are below zero; otherwise, they are just very slow pieces of wood.

[Federer91 3,163]

Perfect scheduling by the IOC. 3 hours of nothing, while now we have 3 medal events at the same time. 

[De_Gambassi 1,317]

4 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Italy only has competitive sleds when temperatures are below zero; otherwise, they are just very slow pieces of wood.

All right, that sounds weird, but ok. Thank you