Summer britcher biography

She broke the track record with a time of Summer Britcher looks on prior to a Women's luge run during a training session. Luge athletes Summer Britcher left and Kate Hansen addresses the media during a news conference. Summer Britcher looks on after competing in the women's luge singles final run 4 during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, at the Olympic Sliding Centre on Feb.

Summer Britcher smiles before her first run in the Olympic women's luge singles. Left to right, U. Summer Britcher celebrates after competing in the women's luge singles run 2 during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 12,in Pyeongchang. After a slow first run, she broke the track record in her second run with a time of Summer Britcher laughts at a joke with mother Carrie, left, and uncle John.

Summer Britcher celebrates after competing in the women's luge singles final run 4 during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, at the Olympic Sliding Centre on Feb. Summer Britcher of the United States prepares for the start of her second run during the women's luge competition at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Monday, Feb.

She battles the ice. One of the youngest members of the Olympic luge team, Britcher, 19, is competing in her first Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Sans brakes.

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Her family will be in the stands egging her on, fingers crossed. Four years ago, a year-old Georgian luger crashed and died during a training run at the Games in Canada. In late December, flanked by family and friends, she received a hearty send-off at Engine 29 station house on Park Heights Avenue. Also on hand was Kimmie Meissner, of Bel Air, onetime Olympian and world figure skating champion whose brother, Nate, is a firefighter there.

What Summer does is really challenging, and skaters are always defying the laws of physics. Being brave is in her blood, Britcher said. She knew it at age 11, on her first luge run at Ski Liberty in Fairfield, Pa. There, on a makeshift bunny track, she rode a plastic sled down a foot chute at 25 miles an hour — and hurried back in line to do it again, five times in all.

Watching intently was Gordy Sheer, marketing director for the U. Luge Association which built the track as a recruiting tool to attract youngsters with Olympic potential.

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