# Doubles luge, this sport looks physically painful

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** olympic-sports-track\
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doubles-luge-this-sport-looks-physically-painful/959223 "2022-02-10T16:04:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doubles-luge-this-sport-looks-physically-painful/959223/1 "2022-02-10T16:04:21Z")

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I’m watching Olympic luge, the doubles competition. Sliding down a mountain while another adult is squashed on top of you?

At least 2 and 4 person bobsled make sense as there’s room in the sleigh for all the participants.

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**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doubles-luge-this-sport-looks-physically-painful/959223/2 "2022-02-10T17:08:32Z")

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Flatulence, priapism, obesity of top person, must be awkward.

Don’t know if I can think of a more deathwish sport. Something Gary Busey should try.

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**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doubles-luge-this-sport-looks-physically-painful/959223/3 "2022-02-10T17:17:01Z")

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> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#):
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> Don’t know if I can think of a more deathwish sport.

At least in luge, you’re going down the hill feet-first. Try skeleton, in which you’re going down head-first, with your face a couple of inches from the track surface.

And, no, there is apparently not a “doubles skeleton.” 😛

[![](https://images.ctfassets.net/v8zaoys2pgzt/6X32fcK3E8BM3WRqN1xKci/e00acb4295bdd1227fa33a004a361f1e/GettyImages-919256460.jpg?fit=thumb&w=1200&h=600) ](https://images.ctfassets.net/v8zaoys2pgzt/6X32fcK3E8BM3WRqN1xKci/e00acb4295bdd1227fa33a004a361f1e/GettyImages-919256460.jpg?fit=thumb&w=1200&h=600)

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**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doubles-luge-this-sport-looks-physically-painful/959223/4 "2022-02-10T18:04:54Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> And, no, there is apparently not a “doubles skeleton.” 😛

Well, there is this thing…

Oh, wait. No Rape Jokes

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doubles-luge-this-sport-looks-physically-painful/959223/5 "2022-02-11T21:53:45Z")

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[Moderating]

You realize, of course, that saying “no rape jokes” there makes that into a rape joke?

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doubles-luge-this-sport-looks-physically-painful/959223/6 "2022-02-12T05:36:07Z")

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> [@dalej42](#):
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> I’m watching Olympic luge, the doubles competition. Sliding down a mountain while another adult is squashed on top of you?

I can’t find a good picture of it online, but I think the sled for doubles has a post that comes up between the lower rider’s legs with a small seat on it. So the lower rider isn’t carrying all the weight of the one on top.