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Before Erin Hamlin gets on the ice in Lake Placid, she?ll continue her role as luge ambassador. Hamlin will be in Utica next month when the USA Luge Slider Search returns to Cornelia Street Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 21-22.

Canada?s luge program got a boost of experience on Thursday, with the addition of Bernhard Glass as an assistant coach to the World Cup team.

Inspired by a viewing of the two-man luge event in the 2006 Winter Olympic games, the editors of ESPN.com wondered if it would be possible to light the fire under an average athlete and see him or her compete for the Olympic gold in under two years.

Tom and Sandy Lynum have chased the five rings four times. This year, they are at it again.

The 16th X Games starts in Los Angeles on Thursday and the latest incarnation of the four-day gathering will once again feature athletes who have forged a lucrative career out of alternative street sports.

Former women's world champion Erin Hamlin and three-time Olympian Tony Benshoof are among 14 athletes who will be part of USA Luge's season-opening training camp starting Friday. It'll be the first camp overseen by five-time Olympian Mark Grimmette, who retired from sliding a month after the Vancouver Games and is now USA Luge's sport program manager.

Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. (July 29, 2010) -- Almost 20 years have elapsed since the Team USA Scholarship was founded with the intention of assisting talented, young American race car drivers in the early stages of their careers.

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AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Officials with the http://www.aasbd.org/ " target="_blank">All-American Soap Box Derby have asked recruiters from the http://blog.lugeteam.us/ " target="_blank">USA junior luge team to stay away from this weekend's race.

By: Andrew Otovic With the recent death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, the fourth ever competitor dying at the winter Olympics, the question should be raised: Are the Winter Games becoming too dangerous?...