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- Verizon has been USA Luge’s founding sponsor since 1985.
- USA Luge first achieved Olympic success at the 1998 XVIII Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan with silver and bronze medals in the doubles’ competition.
- USA Luge matched its Olympic success from the ’98 Games, winning silver and bronze in the doubles’ event of the 2002 XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- USA Luge doubles teams have won four overall World Cup titles (1997, 1998, 1999 and 2003) and two overall Challenge Cup crowns (2002 and 2003).
- USA Luge has earned almost 500 medals in senior and junior international competition, since 1994, making USA Luge the most successful Winter Olympic National Governing Body (NGB).
- USA Luge made team history by sweeping all three medals in a Dec. 1996 World Cup doubles event in Lillehammer, Norway.
- USA Luge has captured 16 World Junior Championship titles.
- USA Luge has captured one gold, four silver and six bronze medals in Senior World Championship events. We now have SIX bronze medals in world championship competition.
- USA Luge has captured 26 Senior World Cup wins since 1994.
- Luge is the only sliding sport measured to the single thousandth of a second.
- Speeds in luge can exceed 90 mph.
- The United States has two full-length, certified, Olympic-style luge tracks (Park City, Utah and Lake Placid, N.Y.).
- The average luge run has a vertical drop of 30 stories (300 feet).
- USA Luge’s Frank Masley and Cameron Myler have carried the U.S. flag into the Olympic Winter Games’ (OWG) opening ceremonies (Masley in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and Myler in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway). Mark Grimmette was one of eight athletes to carry the World Trade Center American Flag into the 2002 OWG opening ceremonies.
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