Luge Relay

I’m all in on luge right now and it’s the final event for the sport these games. It’s exciting because the the women, men and doubles (which has grown on me) go one after another and have to hit a physical target with their hand to send their teammate down the track. And if you miss the target you are disqualified from competition. And these are their spiked gloves so this is not a casual high-five situation. They made a very individualized sport a team competition and added some flare to it.

U.S. team had a rocky start with Britcher Summer not having her best run. Chris Mazdzer brought it back but it was really Matt Mortensen and Jayson Terdimen that pulled out something amazing on the last couple turns to get ahead of Italy with only a couple more teams to follow. We got a couple minutes of being on top and having a track record.

But next came Canada besting our time.

Austria next.

And finally Germany pushing the U.S. to the hardest place to finish, in fourth. We finished in 6th at the Sochi games so we’ve made an improvement as a team. Here’s to looking to Beijing in 4 years for getting on that podium. And now they get beer. Lots of beer.