Doubles Luge: Breaking Down The Internet's Favorite Olympic Sport - Cheddar Explains
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
- The Winter Olympics showcase our favorite and most picturesque winter sports: from ski jumping, to figure skating, to ice hockey. But don't forget about doubles luge, the internet's favorite Olympic sport. Join us as we explore the history of this intimate display and reveal why doubles luge is so much more than a meme.
Further Reading:
CBS Sports:
www.cbssports.com/olympics/ne...
Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...
Team USA
www.teamusa.org/usa-luge/hist...
NBC Olympics
www.nbcolympics.com/news/luge...
USA Today
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Slate
slate.com/culture/2014/02/dou...
Clarkson University
www.clarkson.edu/news/aerodyn...
New York Times
www.nytimes.com/article/winte...
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“The bottom needs to trust the directions of the top”
🤣🤣🤣 unless they are the power bottom.
Takes one to know one! 😂
lol
Are you talking about social economic classes or not because I can't tell
@@joypills tops and bottoms usually only refer to dice, or lugers, nothing else.
The way it works is there is a sleigh and they go as fast as they can downhill and at the end the Germans always win.
Got that Autobahn mentality.
Lol, yes. Currently 4/4 plus 2 silver medals in Luge and 2/2 plus 1 silver medal in Skeleton.
Thank you now I don’t have to watch the video
@@thana7179 yes but the monobob broke our winningstreak today 😢 I was so hoping we'd win all the games on the ice-channel! hope Friedrich and Lochner can make up for that tomorrow
Damn I saw this morning only germans in the podium for the one with the rocket car thingy
C'mon let's get the triple luge going for 2026.
bruh LMAOO 🤣
😩😩😩😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
triple cheese burger 🤣
Germany will gladly take that gold medal
Well since luge is already French, it should just be called a ménage a trois
“Being a bottom man” is definitely a choice way to start a sentence 💀
I was dying when I heard that 💀😂
Hahaha for real! I blazed before this. I couldn't stop laughing !
My (gay) partner and I paused and started cry laughing. I said “oh, I understand this sport now!”
Top and bottom become an olympic sport? The only sport where you need protection and a cigarette afterwards...
It's always very exciting to see who finishes 2nd after Germany
Sometimes it is also Germany
@@navox933 😭😂😂ikr ahahaha
Germans are notorious for doping.
@@lwh7301 I thought that was only East Germany? I don’t think really they do it anymore.
@@viktornapolitano6113 Well...the East Germans integrated into West Germany!
"Oh, honey, I'm so glad you're home! Robert and I were just ... uh ... practicing the new 2 man luge ... right, Robert?" An Olympic winter sport is thereby born when a lie gets outta hand.
LOL the dedication.
thats like turkish oil wrestling everything about it seems like two guys getting caught iin the act and making something up on the fly
Lol
Seems like a gay sport.
@@jahajesper wheni saw that i was like, men will come up with anything to do something gay and call it sport.
Triple Luge would be even better...
why stop there we can keep adding people
the bottom & middle riders are face down? lol
Most sledders successfully on the sled at the bottom wins.
I mean, that's simple math! 😄
Ohh kinky.
Yeah they definitely dug their grave with all those "bottom" statements. 😂 Lots of meme comments to follow.
Oh my god I was dying! “As a bottom man!...” 😂💀
Yeah, but the bottom is actually the top and the top takes it up the bottom.
I tried out for single Luge during the Lillihamer Olympics through the NYNEX Junior Luge Series, I didn't make it, but I had a lot of fun trying out.
@@nataliaryzak8517 yeah it was fun, I was a better athlete than most, but still wasn't good enough. The best part was the second time I tried out was in Lake Placid NY which was a place I went camping alot when I was a kid as well as being a winter Olympics site more than once.
@@lancelotkillz you obviously don't know anything about the Luge. I suggest you try it, or at the very least google it so you understand it. It's not as easy as it looks.
@@lancelotkillz If you just ride on it and do nothing else, you'll crash out 10 seconds in. It requires some crazy cornering techniques. Quite dangerous too.
They forgot to mention that the top luger actually sits on a little pedestal in the moddle of the sled, they are not sitting on their partners lap.
Shhhht!
It's not that little.
That is false. They sit on the bottom pole
This makes it way less hot 😔
Don’t like this comment.
It's like you wanna be active but don't wanna get out of bed.
Tubing should 100% be a category. We'd get to watch them spin out of control, flailing their arms around to try and keep straight.
I still find luge, skeleton and bob are very dangerous sport. Those athletes have balls of steel
Vox actually made a video about the hidden dangers of sledding sports. I do recommend checking it out, they’re surprisingly deadly (and not for the reasons you’d expect)
edit: found it czcams.com/video/0iaj5966HV4/video.html
The bottom guy definitely do; or else they'd get crashed already.
Not all of them
I'm sure the top guy can confirm if the bottom's balls are steel...
On a lucky day, those balls of steel are noticable.
I kept a straight face until "being a bottom man..."
Gotta have a doubles sledding event but with the person on the bottom in a luge position and person on top in skeleton position.
Finishing in 69th position wins forever lol
You may have something here 🤔
I want to see them do a combination of luge and skeleton and call it sixtynineing!
Single person: Luge.
Double person: Lewd.
Olympic luge tracks must be insanely expensive. It's a mile of track made of reinforced concrete, fully refrigerated along the entire length and width, and covered to protect it from precipitation.
Many of the Olympic venues go unused because they are used for a specific purpose. How the heck would one repurpose a luge venue?
@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303 water slide
@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303 some of them are used for biking afterwards. Others are kept for training all year long.
@@pluto8404 *pinky to mouth* riiighht
@@laletemanolete How do you bike on that? O_o
Literally saw this somehow for the first time. My sibling and i laughed so hard at the intimacy of the sport
It's sweet that they can come together
So much unintentional innuendo in that second half lol
I was too busy trying to not stare at people's crotches to notice. lol I don't think I will ever be able to un-see 4:16!
If somebody told me about doubles luge, I would have thought they were reading an Onion article
"Bottom Luger" Thanks, that's my band name now
I’m so used to the top being behind the bottom…
Same 💀
4:16 I can’t be the only one that sees it…
Lol. My husband and I have been watching the winter Olympics asking out loud 'who would wanna do xx sport' or 'who thought this would be fun?'. Most recent was cross country skiing. Everyone looked wrecked. Did not look fun at all.
Is holding your hand out the window the Aerodynamics version of imagining a Wormhole as a folded piece of paper and pencil?
yes
all olympic sports are like holding your hand out of the window of a moving car.
thats a wormhole, not a blackhole, a wormhole is when you bend the paper so much it goes vertical
@@Aconspiracyofravens1 Thank you. I've corrected it.
That is such a high iq nerd train of thought, I feel connected with you
I just watched the the Vox's Olympic sledging video now cheddar uploads one
Can u please suggest me more channels like these...🥺
Yeah it's like they're competing
Yeah well Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero both exist concurrently too.
@@AnthonyRusso93 Pepsi and coke are probably better comparisons lol. diet coke and coke zero aren't really in competition with each other.
@@chairwood I could see that you may be right I may have chosen poor wording they compete indirectly in how much they keep alternatives being sought outside of brand. I had it in my mind the impression they are under the same larger entity I didn'tverify. If they aren't you are definitely right my analogy is bad
Right up there with synchronized swimming.
Body twitches wins the race though.
Add some sharks to the swimming,
and you got a winner!
I wanna see luge-skeleton, one goes feet first and the other is head first 😌
Needs an anime.
Bruh. You already know that every micromovements will have like 2-3 lines of dialogue LOL
@@iadtag1853 Nah man, each micromovement will have few episode worth of backstory and monologue!
and the tricky ones will even have unique names and history attach to it.
Titled "Let's Go, Girls' Double Luge", it basically is about two girls luge together and being so yuri and shit. But in the end, one says "hey I really love our coach" and the other one goes "that guy in the boys luge team is actually my boyfriend".
the sport where one is on top another, and they scream the pleasure of joy
They should have a 7 person Luge
“The internets favorite sport”
Uh, what?
Literally just found out today what luge is… 😩🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
favorite to make fun of was the joke
I think I'm not on the internet enough, I had never heard of it
I like luge, it's the sport my home country (Germany) is best at
If they ever have a doubles skeleton event.. I'm quitting my job to watch that.
Legend has it they encourage the bottom guy to get a woody to make sure the top man is securely planted on the sled,(for safety reasons obviously)
4:16 is the entire reason people like this sport
seriously they paused on that image for a reason...
The Winter Olympics is far more metal than summer
I'm imagining Doubles Luge combined with 'My 600-Lb Life'. :O
@@burikbradchu6398 Add 'mixed doubles luge' with a small person and a 600-lb plus person on a single sled!
4:16 You can clearly see the two balls and tip lmao
4:15 oh noooo
5:37 I thought shes gonna say bromance
It should be mentioned how dangerous it is. But that also goes without saying too.
I think that wipeout gives a pretty good sense of it.
its statistically much safer than driving anywhere. The way the tracks are built (except that one time in whistler) are so that no matter how you crash, you can't leave the track. you will stay in the icy chute, which means that when you crash you take a really really really really long time to stop, you aren't going from 100 to 0 in an instant, youre going from 100 to 0 in 30+ seconds. which means the force applied on your body, really isn't that much. Force = Mass * velocity / Time, the longer the time, the lesser the force. Of course there are broken bones, but no more proportionally than youd get from people playing any other sport. The thing is, crashing is COMMON like, every olympic athlete will have had hundreds of crashes in their career. You only hear about or see the really bad ones, creating a warped perception of the dangers of it going wrong, in 99% of crashes, you flip your sled, slide on your face for a while, stop, and get out, and your only injuries are some brusing and maybe ice burn. Then you go up and do it again.
Source: am luger.
I’m sorry but all of those quotes can be taken out of context 😂
“Being a bottom man”
“Seeing a curve I can’t do anything”
“Wanna go together?”
“I rely on his head movement”
Or something similar hahaha
at last, a sport for the homies
Wok Worldcup still beats doubles louge by a mile
6:42
Grampa: "The helmet made her THIS tall."
Kids: "TAKE YOUR HAND DOWN!!"
Imagining how the founding fathers of the doubles luge conceived the details of their sport
I’d like to see a luge train with two luge sleds linked up like we do on sledding hills
Fun Fact - All two-man luge teams are in a sexual relationship with each other.
These guys go faster than most trains in the US and Canada (yeah yeah I know the Acela etc.)
Yes, that is why it must be difficult for the guy on the bottom because he cannot really see where they are going. Plus he has not head support so he must have a very strong neck to withstand the turns at that speed.
I remember those goofy cone head helmets from the 76' Innsbruck Games. I was just a kid at the time, but I thought those helmets looked down-right ridiculous!
Some dude 100 years ago: you know what would be crazy, if you laid on my junk and we slid down this bih going 100mph 😂
Yo I typed this comment like 2min before she explained how it was made 😂 I’m dying laughing I was right
It's all about the power bottom.
Mixed doubles luge would be amazing
Tall rider on top and bottom rider with strapons!
Well, doubles doesn't have gender restrictions, so they could mix (or just have two women). Guess for various reasons it's advantageous having two men though.
@@_SpamMe Yes, as far as I know there is no women's double luge.
As much as you think that's great and all. Imagine if the top gets flung off, while you're still attached.
@@purpl3grape It is definitely a sport that requires lots of precision.
4:16 that looks quite uncomfortable
Ouch
Kevin Skiver wrote the “hey, wanna go together?” quote. It comes from a really funny but still informative article about this sport that made me curious to learn more.
Between 'sled head' and athletes crashing and dying at the Olympics, I really don't get why this is still a sport...
Removing a sport is difficult because of tradition. Also, dangerous sports bring more views.
it is the best sport to measure skill in micro movement and non verbal communication
The only fun thing about Olympic is when they fail
I can't be paid enough to be convinced giving these sleigh sports a try.
It’s kind of cool and amazing once they explain it, just knowing that the bottom man can’t see anything.
how do you even watch the olympics? i cant seem to find it online.
You can find all about the Olympics of you search for 'uighur genocide'.
6:42 wait a minute that's Jackie Stewart, didn't expect that in a video about luge
Bobsledding is my favourite!
Every video about any winter sport: internet’s fav”
It must be difficult for the bottom guy because he has no rest for his head. He needs very strong neck muscles, especially to withstand the turns at that speed. Plus he cannot really see where they are going.
I'm just jealous of their bond.
the luge: what if human hot dog crash test dummies on ice
I learn something new everyday 😅
that looks so fun
wow what a beautiful sport
That cat doubles picture is so cute! I'd watch doubles louge if the top person is a 🐈.
A lot of the stuff covered is just common sense. Did you really have to inform us that those German helmets were used for aerodynamics? Just looking at the shape tells us that...
I thought they just had big brains
And here is what that info build up to but that you missed because you went into the comments to flash how genius hearing the info made you feel about yourself: This aerodynamic feature proved to give the team such an edge over the competition that it got banned.
You're welcome.
@@WormholeJim your welcome what, trying to be a smart ass? The question was why the German team wore the helmets. Nothing about the consequences about the helmet.
2 guys 1 sled.....
The real question is, do they incorporate team work when they bring home people from the bar
I like the head first sledding
I love you, Jim.
I love you too, Will.
No. I LOVE you, Jim.
What are you talking about, Will?!!
So intimate...
The quotes are the best
Pause 4:16 : "hello my little friend." XD
How do you get into Luge?
Does the bottom need a luge-ricant becore the race?
You'd think "Cheddar" would cover the Annual Cheese Rolling Competition.
Chasing a ring of cheese down a hill - broken arms, broken legs, marriage proposals, it's got it all.
4:16 LOL nice choice of pic.
I like the part where she pronounces LUGE a different way each time she says it 😂 looosche luuuge loose loosh looooghhhh
4:16 leaves little to the imagination lol
Jimmy Fallon's luge skit is absolutely hilarious.
You have to be a little bit of a suicidal maniac to do this, ESPECIALLY on the bottom. Though, judging by their sharp S's , I'd say they probably switch who's the bottom.... 😉
Smashing
“The internet’s favorite olympic sport”
Me who had never even heard of it before this video even though I’m always on the web: surprised pikachu face
"The internet's FAVORITE Olympic sport" 🤣🤣🤣
Are you sure about that?!!
4:30 Interesting subtitles.
I’m pretty aware of sports and events…. I have NEVER heard of doubles luge? Shocked
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The only sport this year where someone follows you more closely than your CCP handler.
Haha its a marriage with no rings just metals gold ones.
Some must love it bumpy
@6:42 is that Jackie Stewart?
4:03 - It's a pretty good recovery?? The top guy got left up in the roof rafters!
Biathlon. They need a summer variant with cycling either road, mountain or gravel.
They do have a biathlon equivalent in the summer.
@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303 I've never noticed!
@@aetherguy881 Yeah, I think they have a triathlon, they bike it, then swim, and then run.
I feel like they're not as well known because "oh-no gunz!" 🙄
@@aetherguy881 Imagine having to run with a rifle on your back. That would be draining. I suppose they could bike it. But to make it more similar, it would be more or less like skateboard and then shoot.
Is there coed?
6:41 IS THAT SIR JACKIE STEWART.
edit: I'm wrong but a fun doppelganger
So what do you do for a living? "I'm an Olympic bottom-luger 🤓"