How did 33 luge equipment boxes for Olympic hopefuls end up stuck in a Beijing airport in the months before the Games? Team USA's Jonny Gustafson details the 'disaster' situation
In the qualification races ahead of the Beijing Olympics, many competitors were left without their sleds and other vital items after they were seized by Chinese officials.BEIJING — You’ll have to forgive Jonny Gustafson if he hugged his sled tightly upon arrival here last week. The last time he flew through the Beijing airport, authorities seized 33 equipment boxes from lugers in several different countries—including the box that contained Gustafson’s sled.
After the first World Cup of the season, at the Olympic track in Yanqing, lugers began to hear rumors in the airport that not all their luggage had made it onto the plane that the International Luge Federation had chartered to ferry them to events. Soon after they landed in Sochi, Russia, Gustafson learned that his sled wouldn’t be joining him. Neither would anything else he kept with it—uniforms, coaches’ equipment, tools, spare parts, “anything else we can fit in there,” he said.
“Nobody could really explain to us why these boxes were kept in Beijing,” he said. He called the incident a “disaster.”
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