Pierre Lueders
Pierre Lueders
Pierre Fritz Luedersis a Canadian Olympic, world and World Cup champion bobsledder who competed from 1990 to 2010. He piloted both two-man and four-man bobsleigh, retiring after the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2012...
ProfessionBobsledder
Date of Birth26 September 1970
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That was probably the best combination until this one. And that one would have been first-second if I hadn't fallen into the sled, slipping trying to get in, then banging into the wall on the first turn.
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Those guys will be trying to kill each other off. Maybe we can slip in there.
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I think he's the best athlete on the Canadian team and I know how proud he is to represent this country.
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Yeah, it was a nice drive. We drove for my first back-to-back wins in Europe to the site of where I won my first four-man race last year.
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What a lot of people don't understand is this year we've actually been better in the four-man. Our sled is suited very well to this track. I've been driving it better here. I know the guys are going to go crazy. We've known all year we have a really good chance in the four-man.
win
I don't want to be a competitor; I want to win races.
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If that's how they want to play, they can look at the time sheet after the second run. I'm getting tired of it. That was a little bit of motivation on the second run.
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I'm a learning poker player. In certain races, we didn't show our best athletes or used our second best runners on the sled. You can gain a lot of confidence in races by seeing how much you can accomplish. Then you think how much better you can do once you put in the best.
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No one remembers how you finished in the World Cups in an Olympic season.
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The thing I found over my career is the Olympics stir up emotions in an athlete or in a person that have never been stirred up before ? and that's something you have to be careful of.
focus race
Right now the race is over and we have another race to focus on.
christmas home horrible olympics road sitting took watching
The road it took to get Lascelles here, it's unbelievable. I thought about that over Christmas and that it would just be horrible that he'd be sitting at home watching the Olympics and we're here competing.
blizzard event
I've never competed in an event where it started snowing with a blizzard like this.
avoid staying tried village
We tried staying away from the village to avoid distractions in 2002, and it was a logistical nightmare.