THE BRONX LUGE.(Gordy Sheer offers luge lessons in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 17-FEB-03

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It's not often that weather conditions in New York City are conducive to Olympic events like the luge, but the recent cold spell coincided neatly with a visit from Gordy Sheer, a silver-medallist "slider" in Nagano, to Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx. As part of the city's 2003 Winter Festival, Sheer had agreed to offer free luge lessons, so, on one of the coldest days of the season, he drove his Chevy Express van (license plate: USA LUGE) to the foot of Van Cortlandt's Cass Gallagher Nature Trail, a wooded path carved out of what the park's Web site calls "rock outcroppings that are links to the last ice age,"...

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