How to pronounce “luge” in English

Luge tracks are very different.

Luge, not so much.

So luge is the fastest of all of the sledding sports.

at the luge track.

So in luge there are like a dozen or so tracks around the world, and you don't get very many runs on each track every year.

So for luge there are kind of two components.

So with luge the-- it's hard to see when you watch it on TV or even when you're standing at the track

And with the luge track it's about-- so luge, bobsled, and skeleton all go on the same track.

And in luge, because it's so fast and it's timed to the thousandth of a second-- if the track is even, like, half a second

I know lugers from India that literally are living in the Himalayas and created their own sled and are going down hills that they drive in.

And after the games there was a two-week luge camp, so my parents let me skip school and go to luge camp.

And how old were you when you first went to luge camp?

but most of this audience has probably never gone down a luge ramp at 80-plus miles an hour or flipped multiple times on skis.

No, when you went to luge camp.

So the ramp is so steep that when you're-- so with luge you're sitting on the sled at the start, hands around the handles.

So, nearly as much fun as luge.

So if you're on the World Cup tour you're there with only luge athletes, and everybody goes from track to track and you see the same people at training and in the race.

So I'd been skiing already, and I went with my parents to see luge every day.

So the luge tracks are very different.

descends like a squirrel, a greased squirrel in a luge and accelerates like a particle in a particle accelerator, which itself is itself a particle in a giant particle accelerator."

It's mostly scotch and men night but they eat a little bit of steak and he brings home Peter Luger or something.

And I was able to work, actually, undergrad into that schedule because I went to Dartmouth and it had-- it's on quarters, so I would go with the luge team in the fall

Well, before I walked into the stadium at the opening ceremonies in Lillehammer the director of marketing for USA luge said, oh, so

Luge tracks are definitely very, very different from track to track.

Yeah, definitely a little different dynamic in luge, I think.

And I think that's something-- like, that's in my nature anyway, being a luge athlete.

Because people know beforehand, "I have to go into this restaurant with a huge wad of cash" -- like Lugers -- "or I'm screwed." Nobody knew who the hell we were, and we expected

There's thousands of restaurants. So, you don't go to a Sushi Yasuda, or Masa and ask for a vegetarian menu. You don't go to Peter Lugers and ask for tempeh.