Topic: Erin Hamlin

Despite crash, Hamlin leads US luge team

Former Luge world champion Erin Hamlin escaped serious injury Sunday in a crash during a selection race for the US World Cup team and will still head the US squad.X-rays on Hamlin's injured left arm were negative, and the 2009 ...
Olympic champ Huefner fuels 1-2 German finish at World Cup luge; Canadian Gough take bronzeOlympic champion Tatjana Huefner won the women's luge event Friday night at Olympic Park, giving Germany its 102nd straight World Cup victory.Huefner had a two-run time ...

Luge

At the luge world championships in Lake Placid, N.Y., in February 2009, American Erin Hamlin slid to gold, the first time since 1993 that a non-German slider had won the world crown. German slider Tatjana Hufner again dominated the World Cup ...

Olympic Luge Women's Singles

Olympic Women?s Luge Singles, a competition format of the luge winter sport wherein athletes race face-up and feet first on sleds, is an event that has been held at the world championship level annually since 1955. Sylke Otto , the Turin gold ...
Then there was the rivalry between the Canadian figure skating pairs team and the Russian pairs team that prompted the overhaul of the figure skating scoring system. Kim did well at the Four Continents Championship with a record score on her short ...

Olympic Luge 2010

2010 Olympic Luge took place from February 13 through February 17 at the The Whistler Sliding Centre in Vancouver , British Columbia . Singles competitors to keep an eye on include Erin Hamlin of the United States , Armin Zoeggeler of Italy , Albert Demtschenko of ...
Gold for Germany, frustration for US:Germany's Tatjana Huefner gave her nation its ninth women's gold in 13 Olympic competitions, securing the title Tuesday by finishing the four-run event in 2 minutes, 46.524 seconds 0.490 seconds better than ...

Women sliders now have kids race: German

WHISTLER (Reuters) - The women's Olympic luge competition has been turned into a kids race after organizers lowered the starting point for safety reasons, Germany's Natalie Geisenberger said on Sunday.Friday's fatal accident at the Whistler Sliding Center forced the ...
The women's course at Whistler Sliding Center is about 800 feet shorter now.The switch was made after a Georgian men's slider was killed Friday during training.German standout Natalie Geisenberger says racing on the new track is "not fun ...
"They had to address it," said women's world champion Erin Hamlin of Remsen, N.Y. Starting farther down the track means speeds will be lower, as proven by Saturday's training sessions, during which men were going 5 mph or more ...