Luge My interest is luge. I stared with luge when I was 9 or 10 years old when my friend asked if I wanted to try it one evening, and I literally thought it was a hill with normal snow. It was not even near that. It was a lugetrack with cold ice. My first run went from curve 13, which means really long down in the track and almost nothing speed. When I came over the finish line I smiled and thought this was really fun, and this was something I wanted to do. Today I start from Ladies start. That is kind of a steep hill and down in curve 4. The hill is there to give us a little more speed. Since I started I have had ups and downs, but I have still done three World Cups, two Junior World Championships, one Scandinavian and three Norwegian Championships, …show more content…
We steer with our feet, shoulders and sometimes the handles. Luge is a sport where you need to relax a lot, but it is hard. We also need muscles that are well trained and a body with a height weight if you want to get a good place in a run or just for the speed. We also need to lie flat down on our back. If we have a high head the shoulder will lose the contact with the sled and the most important way to steer is with the shoulders. The word luge is French but the sport actually came from Norway from the 15th century. The word luge means “Small coasting sled” and the sport started for real in St. Moritz in Switzerland in the middle of the 19th century when a hotel owner wanted the hotel to get more gests. So he built a luge, skeleton and bobsleigh track. When the guests came to visit the sport spread quickly. A couple of years later it was time for the first World Championships in luge and it was held in Oslo in Korketrekkeren that still exist, but everyone can rent an old sled that they used at that time and take a run that takes around 20 minutes. The first World Champion in luge was Anton Salvessen, and he was Norwegian. That is the only gold medal that a Norwegian has ever taken in an international competition, and that happened