ALTENBERG, Germany —The FIL Luge World Championships kicked off the three-day racing weekend with the sprint competitions on Friday. The United States had two close calls with the podium, placing Ashley Farquharson and the duo of Maya Chan/Reannyn Weiler fourth in the women’s singles and ...

BLUDENZ, Austria — Aidan Muller of West Islip won a bronze medal at the fifth Junior World Cup event this luge season on Friday, and the doubles team of Logan Barnes and Gavin Davis won silver on Thursday. Muller clocked a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 5.462 seconds. Marco Leger of ...

GANGWON, South Korea — The 2024 Youth Olympic Winter Games luge events kicked off this past weekend at the Alpensia Sliding Center, the site of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. The women’s singles race was the first luge event, followed by the men’s doubles competition on Saturday. ...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — A standoff between the IOC and 2026 Winter Games officials in Italy about using a bobsled track in another country should be resolved within two weeks, the Olympic body said Thursday. The International Olympic Committee has repeatedly insisted that an existing ice ...

INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) — Downhill racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is having a second operation Thursday five days after his shocking crash and airlifted exit from Switzerland’s signature World Cup event. The former World Cup overall champion, and longtime partner of American star Mikaela ...

INNSBRUCK, Austria — For the fourth consecutive World Cup event, USA Luge had athletes standing on the podium. Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby won the bronze in the women’s doubles competition in Innsbruck, Austria — the home of the 1964 and 1976 Olympic Winter Games. Ashley ...