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USA Luge and EarthCam bring you live views of its indoor training facility in Lake Placid, NY.
Since the late 1800s Lake Placid has been a tourism hotspot, home to the Winter Olympics,
Ironman USA and the Goodwill Games. Lake Placid's beautiful mountains, lakes and streams help
attract over 1.8 million visitors yearly to this northeast corner of New York State.
The 1932 and 1980 Olympic facilities, Santa's Workshop, Highfalls Gorge, and other destinations make this
area a popular family vacation spot.
At the 1932 Winter Olympic games, Jack Shea from Lake Placid became the first athlete to win two
gold medals at the same Olympics. Shea won the medals in speed skating. During the 1980 games the
U.S. Hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in what is often referred to as "The Miracle on Ice."
USA Luge is an Olympic class member organization of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and
is the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of luge in the United States. A not-for-profit
organization, USA Luge - the official American representative to the International Luge Federation (F.I.L.) -
is based in Lake Placid, N.Y. with a western office in Park City, Utah, and its natural track operations in the
Marquette/Negaunee, Mich. area.
Chartered in 1979, as a direct result of the Congressional Amateur Sports Act of 1978, it is the responsibility of
USA Luge to recruit, prepare, train and equip the United States National Luge Team for international and
Olympic competition, as well as promote the growth of the sport nationwide. The team will be competing
in the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.
From our friends at the USA Luge
For more information, please visit our affiliate at http://www.usaluge.org.
