Slowing down Sochi’s luge track to make it safer won’t mean it’s less challenging

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Credits

Produced by Alexandra Garcia, Mika Gröndahl, Joe Ward, Graham Roberts, Mike Bostock and Tom Giratikanon

Narration by Zena Barakat

Photographs by Natacha Pisarenko/AP, Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images, Richard Heathcote/Getty Images, Matt Campbell/EPA

Sources: Terry Gudzowsky, president of ISC/IBG Group and Udo Gurgel, master track designer; Point-of-view video from United States Luge Association; Chris Mazdzer

Published: Feb. 8, 2014