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  • Adirondack Explorer

    Controlled speed

    Apr 24, 2020 4 minutes
    By Tracy Ormsbee

    Peggy Mousaw, a USA Luge race official, is in constant motion between the athletes coming off the track, a scale where they’re weighed, a station to check the temperature of the sled’s runners and the “Yanke gauge”—a machine that measures the sled itself. She wears a fleece, wind pants, Microspikes and a fur hat. No gloves.

    Never mind that it’s late February in Lake Placid, 10 degrees and notably windy at Station 3 of the luge track at Mount Van Hoevenberg. And it feels even colder because this sport takes place on a track of solid, refrigerated ice. Spectators, crowded behind it to watch, are

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