This was Yajia, a traditional sport from southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, often called the "elephant tug-of-war" for its resemblance to the actions of elephants. At China's 12th National ...

1964 Innsbruck: Luge makes its Olympic debut. The inaugural competition comprises three events: men’s singles, women’s singles, and doubles. The same events have appeared in every subsequent Games, ...

The winner is the athlete or team that completes all of the prescribed runs in the fastest total time. Five luge events are scheduled for the Milan Cortina Winter Games: men's singles, women's singles ...

Italy is facing financial troubles in preparing for the 2026 Winter Games, and could effectively outsource one of the trickier infrastructure elements: the massive sliding facility used for luge ...

Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby opened the World Cup season with a win, a year before women's doubles makes its Olympic ...

Luge became an Olympic event in 1964. Skeleton became an Olympic event at St. Moritz in 1928 and was included when the Games returned to St. Moritz in 1948. After the 1948 Olympics Skeleton was ...

Emily Sweeney and the doubles team of Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby headlined the best World Cup weekend for USA Luge on ...

USA Luge has been told that Chris Mazdzer is headed to the Olympics as the team has received third spot for the men's race at the Beijing Games. The men's doubles sled team of Zack Di Gregorio and ...

The first construction phase of the traditional ice track in Igls has been completed, culminating in the official ...

Chinese state media claimed that a Polish luge team was "impressed" by a track ... who now faces a race to be back in time for the start of the games in February, was training at one of the ...

Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby became the first Americans to win a World Cup luge gold medal on foreign soil in nearly ...