Closed for the off-season!

Well, the sliding season is now over, with no more competitions until next fall. This blog will remain mostly dormant until then, but you can expect it to spring back into action to serve our constituents when the time is ripe. Until then, I will continue to add photos to our group page on Yahoo!, and encourage all our sliders to do so as well when you find the time.

Finally, dear readers, if you have suggestions for what you would like to see on our website next season, either send me an email or post a comment below.

Thanks everyone; it's been nice sharing this with you.

"Modern Marvels" airs tonight

Be sure to catch the History Channel at 8PM tonight to see a segment of "Modern Marvels" featuring luge. This was filmed in November, before we left for Russia. I expect we will see Aaron Barge putting his best foot forward for the interviewer.

Russia

Luge team in Riga Lativa

Homecoming

We head home tomorrow, and I think about everyone is about ready to be with family and in familiar places. I will be in Lake Placid for the next week, and promise that a high priority of mine will be to put things on this blog that I intended to over the last few weeks, but never quite managed to find time for. Ellen, your requests for pictures will be honored !!

Good Job in the race today everybody. Good luck tomorrow boys. Hope you guys have a safe trip home.

Winterberg Race Schedule

After only three days of training runs here in Winterberg, the season finale of the Junior World Cup circuit begins tomorrow. Friday will start with a Team Competition, followed by the Doubles and Youth A Women races. Then the Junior Women will race in the afternoon. On Saturday, we will race Junior Men and Youth A Men.

In other news...

the Italians seem to have caught our stomach virus from Igls. I understand that viruses mutate quite readily, but this one seems to be targeting fewer athletes and more coaches as time goes by. Only one of the three Italian coaches was able to attend our group's training session on Wednesday.

The skies have cleared, but Winterberg is still feeling the effects of a snowfall, the likes of which have not been seen here for 30 years. One of our vans was stuck at the track today for almost two hours. Jake Hyrns put on an impressive demonstration of his shoveling talents, as six of our team members worked hard to get Curt's van out of a snow bank.