• The Luge competition at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games was held at Cesana Pariol in Cesana, Italy. Three events were staged, taking place from February...
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    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...
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  • The doubles luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on February 15 at Cesana Pariol. Two runs were held on February 15 and the final placements were...
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    For the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, a total of fifteen sports venues were used. Venue construction ran from 2002 to 2005. Cesana Pariol had to...
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  • The luge competition events of the 2010 Winter Olympics were held between 13 and 17 February 2010 at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, British Columbia...
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    The Luge competition at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games was held at Utah Olympic Park in Park City. Three events were staged, taking place from 10 to 14...
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  • The women's luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics began on February 13, and was completed on February 14 at Cesana Pariol. Runs 1 and 2 were held on February...
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  • The men's luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics began on February 11, and was completed on February 12 at Cesana Pariol. The men's singles luge event was run...
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  • The 2006 Winter Olympics (Italian: 2006 Olimpiadi invernali), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games (Italian: XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known...
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    compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy from 10–26 February 2006. This was the nation's seventh appearance in a Winter Olympic Games. The Indian...
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    each Winter Olympic competition since. In June 2022, the IOC added a third event, the mixed team, to the sports program at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Skeleton...
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    the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo and the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. It will be the first Olympic Games...
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  • became the first person to win a medal in the same event in Summer and Winter Olympics, winning figure skating golds at the 1920 Olympics and at the first...
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    American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Filipino athletes have also competed at the Winter Olympic Games on five occasions since 1972. The country has also...
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    The Olympics were then halted due to the outbreak of World War II. Australia did not send a team to the 1948 Winter Olympics, but has competed at every...
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    Utah. During the 2002 Winter Olympics in nearby Salt Lake City, the track hosted the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton events. Today the track still serves...
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  • until the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. In 1955, the first World Luge Championships were held at Holmenkollen near Oslo, Norway. The FIL was established...
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    double at 2006 Winter Olympics, 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze in team events at World Luge Championships. She won also 1 bronze at the Olympics and 1 gold...
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    It hosted the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton competitions for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics. In 1935, Igls hosted the two-man event of the world bobsleigh...
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  • Gerda Weissensteiner (category Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics)
    from the late 1980s to 2006. Competing in six Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's singles luge event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...
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    Luge is one of the seven Olympic sports currently contested at the Winter Olympic Games. It has been a constant presence in the Olympic program since...
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  • The doubles luge event at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, British Columbia. Twenty teams...
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  • Ma Chih-hung (category Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics)
    competed since 2003. The youngest competitor in men's luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin at the age of 20, he finished 28th in the men's singles event...
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    Canada Olympic Park, it hosted the bobsleigh and luge competitions at the 1988 Winter Olympics. This track is one of only two of its type in the world...
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    Cesana Pariol (category Venues of the 2006 Winter Olympics)
    the venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The track, built for the games, is located in Cesana. The...
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    The Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run is a venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton in the United States, located at the Lake Placid Olympic Sports...
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    Georg Hackl (category Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics)
    took a clean sweep of the gold medals in luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Hackl won a total of 22 medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including...
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    participated in all winter sports except Bobsleigh, Luge, Short track speed skating and Skeleton. Alpine skiing has been included in the Olympic programme since...
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    The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) sent a delegation to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy from 10 to 26 February 2006. The only...
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    Erin Hamlin (category Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics)
    Olympian and the first female American luger to medal at any Winter Olympics, as well as the first American of either gender to medal in luge singles competition...
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