Chad Conley called me from Vancouver all breathless. “You must make Felix Loch your hot jock,” he said. He then began describing the physical attributes of Loch in terms a bit too graphic for this blog. Then I watched Loch, a 20-year-old German, win the gold in the men’s luge, and saw that Chad was [...]

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Chad Conley is a former elite competitive figure skater for Canada. He is in Vancouver and wrote this for Outsports.
By Chad Conley
Imagine being 21.
Imagine following in the footsteps of your father and uncle.
Imagine barely qualifying an Olympic spot for your country in a sport dominated by men 10 years older, with 15 years more experience?
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At Fanhouse, sports commentator Jay Mariotti details a history of growing complaints about the dangers of the luge course, going back over many months.  It appears that a whole week of practice wipeouts on the course — an unusual number — didn’t rouse any attention from the IOC or the International Luge Federation or the [...]

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A competitor has died after injuries sustained in a shocking crash near the base of the Luge course. Nodar Kumaritashvili, of Georgia, was on the track for a training run when his sled slammed into the inside of a final curve and he went airbourne over the ice and concrete wall. NBColympics reports that the [...]

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