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Luge Canada and AthletesCAN have joined Abuse-Free Sport, the federal government's new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport.Luge Canada is the latest national sports federation to sign on to the program after…

Frustrated officials with Luge Canada are disappointed WinSport is using money that had been earmarked for the restoration of Calgary's Olympic sliding track on day lodge renovations. The sliding organization says…

Germany's Hannah Neise won the women's skeleton on Saturday, making it six sliding golds out of six at the Beijing Winter Olympics. German dominance in skeleton and luge has fast become the norm in the Yanqing hills but the skeleton race…

Natalie Geisenberger's domination of the women's individual luge continued as she won gold for the third Games in a row, teammate Anna Berreiter finishing just half a second slower to win silver and make it a German one-two. Geisenberger's…

The sleds introduced themselves with a rumbling roar, careening down the icy chute like clockwork. A blink at the wrong time would cause an observer to miss the fastest event of these Winter Games.Some Olympic sports impress with their…

Egypt’s Salah and Senegal’s Mane only the latest Europe-based stars to grab attention at Africa Cup of Nations CAIRO: Rightly or wrongly, the Africa Cup of Nations final has been framed as the clash of the Liverpool superstars: Egypt’s…

Broadcast coverage of the 2022 Winter Games continues in the United States on Sunday evening with events in ice hockey, men’s luge and figure skating. All times are Eastern.ICE HOCKEY At 5 p.m., USA Network will rebroadcast the preliminary…

Here’s how to keep the two sledding sports straight:In luge, athletes speed down an icy track on a small sled.In skeleton, they do it headfirst.Luge is the more familiar of the two. It has a great name. Luge. It’s onomatopoetic, like a sled…

Georgia's Saba Kumaritashvili competes in the men's singles luge event on February 5. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Imaegs)Almost 12 years ago to the day, Saba Kumaritashvili's cousin died in a luge crash before the start of the 2010…

By AFP YANQING: German luge queen Natalie Geisenberger says her birthday wish Saturday is that she and her rivals in the women's singles remain free of Covid at the Beijing Games to ensure a strong field as she hunts…