Canada's luge team is returning to Calgary a day early to get a jump on next week's world cup launch on the 1988 Olympic track.
Three-a-day international sessions began Tuesday at the Whistler Sliding Centre. Canada ends its last pre-Olympic session Saturday. The team, led by Vancouver-born, Calgary-raised Jeff Christie, also trained amid late September's heat in Whistler.
"I like the fact it snowed," Christie said Thursday. "One, it keeps the dust down, so the track stays nice and clean."
International training weeks are a chance to see and be seen by competitors, but Christie said that's neither a benefit nor a disadvantage.
"Your sled is your secret, when it comes to lines down on the track, people can look at how we're driving it, which is fine," Christie said.
"If we're at a German home track, I'm watching the German home session. It's the same dynamic no matter where you are."
