Now that the Olympics are in full swing, some obscure sports will take center stage.
We know about luge, but have you ever heard of luge team relay?
No, the members of the team don’t have to run down a sheet of ice trying to hop in and out of a sled.
Instead, it is a race involving multiple sleds competing together.
It is one of nine mixed-gender events at the Beijing Olympics this year.
The luge team relay made its debut at Sochi 2014.
There are three sleds on one team — one woman, one man and one double, WNBC reported.
The women go first and they have a typical run with the gate open. When they get to the bottom, they have to hit a pad at the bottom to open the gate for the man’s leg of the run.
When he crosses the finish line, he hits the pad and opens the gate for the third sled that will carry the doubles team, WNBC reported.
The race is over when the driver of the double sled hits the pad.
The clock starts running with the woman’s singles sled and doesn’t stop until the doubles sled crosses the finish line.
If one person who should hit the pad neglects to do so, the entire team is disqualified, WNBC reported.