Feet first downhill on a sled at cheetah speed: What to know about luge at the Winter Olympics

By TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press

Nobody knows for certain when luge — the French word for sled — started, since nobody surely took note of the first time someone slid feet-first down a slope.

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