How do people have access to winter sports like luge and skeleton at a young enough age to become olympic level good?
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Sled sports (luge, skeleton, etc.) a lot of times get their next crop of athletes by doing tryouts for young people in their area; almost always the kids doing the tryouts have never participated in any of these sports before.
No one really independently gets into these sports or practices for them, its not really much of a public sport. The organizations for the sport will hold a variety of tryouts and offer to take some of the top performers on into the sport and their organization to start training from a young age.
For athletes later in life, usually they are track athletes who didn’t make it, and get hooked up into the sledding world and go through a rigorous training program after higher school or during/after college
They live near places where those sports are practiced (usually major ski areas) and have parents who can afford to buy them lessons and equipment.
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