Bermuda sent a delegation to compete at the

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in Nagano,

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from 7–22 February 1998. This marked the territory's third appearance at a Winter Olympic Games with their first coming in the

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. Bermuda's delegation consisted of a single athlete, the

luge A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh for s ...

competitor

Patrick Singleton Patrick Singleton (born October 15, 1974) is a Bermudian luger who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s before going into skeleton in 2002. In 1998, Singleton finished 27th in the men's singles event while he finished 37th in the same ev ...

. In the men's singles, he came in 27th place.

Background

Bermuda first participated in Olympic competition at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games, made their Winter Olympic Games debut in 1992 at the Albertville Games, and have appeared in every Olympics since their respective debuts bar one, the boycotted

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in Moscow. The only medal the territory has won so far is a bronze in the sport of boxing at the

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in Montreal The 1998 Winter Olympics were held from 7–22 February 1998; a total of 2,176 athletes represented 72 National Olympic Committees. This was the third time Bermuda had participated in a Winter Olympics. The Bermudian delegation to Nagano consisted of a single

athlete,

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Luge

Singleton was 23 years old at the time of the Nagano Olympics, and was making his Olympic debut. The men's singles competition in luge was a four run race, held over two days, 8–9 February, with two runs on each day, and the sum of all four run times determining the final positions. On the first day, Singleton completed his first run in 51.434 seconds, and his second run in 51.579 seconds. Overnight, Singleton sat in 28th place out of 33 competitors. The next day, he completed his third run in 51.839 seconds, and his fourth in 52.243 seconds, meaning he had gotten slower in each successive run. Singleton's final time was 3 minutes and 27.095 seconds, which put him in 27th position. The gold medal was won by

Georg Hackl Georg Hackl (often named: Hackl Schorsch, ; born 9 September 1966) is a German former luger who was three time Olympic and World Champion. He is known affectionately as ''Hackl-Schorsch'' or as the ''Speeding Weißwurst'' a reference to what he ...

of Germany in 3 minutes and 18.436 seconds, the silver medal was won by Italy's Armin Zöggeler, and the bronze by German Jens Müller.

References

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