Too bad about the double-luge team’s crash at Torino.
The question came up this morning – who ever thought up the notion of two guys piling on a sled to go as fast as they can down an extremely icy hill? The answer: every pair of kids who ever put on snow boots, that’s who. Our favorite winter stunt involved three sledders – two lying face down on parallel Flexible Flyers, and one acrobat to make the jump from speeding sled to speeding sled halfway down the hill. We were only successful about half the time. The rest of the time somebody got ten pounds of slush down the neck of their jacket, but even those failures were spectacular fun. As I recall.