Luge (LUG)

LUG sport icon

Luge is a winter sport featured at the Winter Olympic Games where a competitor or two-person team rides a flat sled while lying supine (face up) and feet first. The sport is usually contested on a specially designed ice track that allows gravity to increase the sled's speed. The winner normally completes the route with the fastest overall time. It was first contested at the 1964 Winter Olympics, with both men's and women's events and a doubles event. Doubles is technically considered an open event since 1994, but only men have competed in it. German lugers (competing under the IOC country codes of EUA, GDR, FRG and GER at different times since 1964) have dominated the competition, winning 87 medals of 153 possible. [Wikipedia]

Icons throughout the Games

LUG pictogram at 1968_grenoble_olympics
LUG pictogram at 1972_sapporo_olympics
LUG pictogram at 1976_innsbruck_olympics
LUG pictogram at 1980_lake-placid_olympics
LUG pictogram at 1984_sarajevo_olympics
LUG pictogram at 1988_calgary_olympics
LUG pictogram at 1992_albertville_olympics
LUG pictogram at 1994_lillehammer_olympics
LUG pictogram at 1998_nagano_olympics
LUG pictogram at 2002_salt-lake_olympics
LUG pictogram at 2006_torino_olympics
LUG pictogram at 2010_vancouver_olympics
LUG pictogram at 2014_sochi_olympics
LUG pictogram at 2018_pyeongchang_olympics
LUG pictogram at 2022_beijing_olympics
LUG pictogram at 2012_innsbruck_youth
LUG pictogram at 2016_lillehammer_youth
LUG pictogram at 2020_lausanne_youth

Leading Countries

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