The banning of Russian sliders, coaches and others from International Luge Federation events as a response to the country's invasion of Ukraine will continue indefinitely, the sport's governing ...

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, ...

Germany claimed a one-two in the women's luge, with Natalie Geisenberger pipping defending champion Tatjana Huefner to win Winter Olympic gold. Geisenberger, 26, produced a stunning final run of ...

Five luge events are scheduled for the Milan Cortina Winter Games: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles ... upon which the sliding sports took place during the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina ...

There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder, Pierre de Coubertin, thought women were "not cut out to sustain certain shocks". More than 100 years ...

First Soviet Olympic luge champion Vera Zozulya won her gold in the women's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York MOSCOW, January 28. /ITAR-TASS/. The Sochi Olympics ...

Germany stepped up their dominance of the Beijing luge track Tuesday ... Winter Games gold in the women’s singles to claim a record-equalling sixth Olympic medal. Having been crowned European ...