EYES WIDE SHUT
What’s crazier than doing an
Olympic luge run, which involves zooming feet-first down a windy, icy chute at up to 145 kilometres per hour? Doing an Olympic luge run without a visor to protect your eyes.
And it’s probably worth mentioning that the weather in Pyeongchang has been notably frigid. So that wind rushing into Poland’s Mateusz Sochowicz’s exposed face Sunday had to be awfully cold. Speaking to Poland’s Przeglad Sportowy, Sochowicz said the weather that evening was “really cold,” even without speeding along in a luge. “So I put on a coat,” he said. “Then I lost my protective visor somewhere. I didn’t realize it until the moment when the green start light lit up. What could I do? I took off without the visor. I traversed the whole track nearly blind,” said Sochowicz, who finished 31st in that run.