luge

The sleepy socialist town built new alpine and Nordic ski trails, ski jumps, bobsled and luge runs, a skating rink, dozens of apartment blocks and numerous hotels.

Still, the event company doesn’t want to water down a cool cocktail: It’s bringing in ice luges for the crystal-and-ice bash.

The World Cup luge circuit is in Lake Placid this weekend for the first time since 2009.

Stockholm’s bid should again use Are, a ski resort more than 300 miles to the north, and the bobsled, luge and skeleton track across the Baltic Sea in Latvia.

Germany won gold medals in eight of the nine events at the luge world championships that concluded Sunday in Oberhof, Germany.