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Skeleton, bobsleigh and luge: Anglos sliding into Vancouver contention

Paris (AFP) – Anglo influence is on the increase in Olympic sliding events after decades of domination by the German-speaking nations. That domination largely continues in luge and bobsleigh – but in skeleton the Americans, Canadians and the British are making a name for themselves as they hurl themselves down icy, twisting, banked tracks in [...]

Skeleton, bobsleigh and luge: Anglos sliding into Vancouver contention

Paris (AFP) – Anglo influence is on the increase in Olympic sliding events after decades of domination by the German-speaking nations. That domination largely continues in luge and bobsleigh – but in skeleton the Americans, Canadians and the British are making a name for themselves as they hurl themselves down icy, twisting, banked tracks in [...]