US luge team sleds slip away — to Pa. road

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. luge team’s sleds went slip-sliding away.

USA Luge is seeking the public’s help in finding the missing gear. The team’s marketing director, Gordy Sheer, says he was returning to his hotel after working at an eastern Pennsylvania ski resort last Friday when five sleds fell out the back of the truck.

By the time he realized what had happened, the sleds were gone.

Pennsylvania State Police say a man in a black truck was seen picking up the sleds and driving off with them. Sheer, a 1998 Olympic silver medalist in doubles, says he doesn’t think the man had any malicious intent.

The training sleds cost $400 to $600 a piece.

State police are asking anyone with information about the sleds to contact the Bethlehem barracks.