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
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.
focus race
Right now the race is over and we have another race to focus on.
athlete career careful emotions found olympics stir
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.
blizzard event
I've never competed in an event where it started snowing with a blizzard like this.
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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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I think he's the best athlete on the Canadian team and I know how proud he is to represent this country.
drove europe last nice race site wins won
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.
win
I don't want to be a competitor; I want to win races.
cups finished olympic remembers
No one remembers how you finished in the World Cups in an Olympic season.
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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.
bit everybody expect feeling guys maybe
I've got two young guys ... and it's their first Olympics. I think maybe the first push, everybody was feeling a bit of the nerves. But in your first Olympics, you expect that.
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It's a long road he took to get here. That's why I was emotional. It just that it wasn't a normal road to get here. A couple weeks ago I didn't have a brakeman. Back home for Christmas, I kept thinking I might have to drive him to the airport in St. Moritz to fly home and watch the Olympics from there.
anyone beat drew start time
It is the first time in two years that we drew the No. 1 start position, so we just told each other to set the time of the day and see if anyone can beat it.
avoid staying tried village
We tried staying away from the village to avoid distractions in 2002, and it was a logistical nightmare.