The women's luge event was plagued with injury resulting from five separate crashes and many near misses.

The country's only representative was George Tucker, who finished last in the luge event.

Bad weather limited the men's single luge event to three runs instead of four.

It also affected the women's single luge event, but the three East Germans were disqualified for heating their luge runners illegally.

At the 1968 Winter Olympics held in neighboring Grenoble, it played host to the luge events.

Three luge events were held at the games:

For NBC Sports at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she worked as a researcher for the luge events.

Several of those teams competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, but did not medal in any luge event.

Bonny Warner, an outside hope going into the competition, was sixth, the best United States finish ever in women's or men's luge events.

Three East German competitors in the women's luge event were disqualified for illegally heating their runners prior to each run.