Chris Mazdzer was supposed to be in Thailand right now. The 2018 Olympic men’s luge silver medalist was going to be getting married there on Saturday, before resuming training for another World Cup sliding season.
The wedding is postponed, just pushed back a year. The season is in considerably more doubt. Still, if there are luge races this season, Mazdzer will be there.
He was among 12 sliders announced Monday by USA Luge as national team members for the coming World Cup season, which is scheduled to start in Austria in late November — assuming the coronavirus pandemic has been sufficiently slowed by then. “There’s a good possibility that this upcoming season will be different, if it even happens,” Mazdzer said. “As an athlete, I don’t