US Olympic Luger shares how she prepared for Beijing 2022

'Very high risk, very small margin of error': Olympian details training for niche sport

Summer Britcher knew that the 2022 Beijing Olympics were going to be like nothing she has experienced, despite this being her third time competing in the games. 

"I'm expecting to have three wildly different Olympic experiences," the world champion luger told Fox News shortly after qualifying for the Olympics in early January. 

Britcher, 27, from Maryland, told Fox News she first tried for the niche sportas an 11-year-old while on vacation with her family skiing. In an effort to expose more kids to the sport, USA Luge had opened a course at the resort.

An administrator recruited Britcher after she posted impressive times and showed a competitive edge.

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"It's obviously a high adrenaline rush," she told Fox News, noting that she was hooked after her first run. "I'm going 80 plus miles per hour down a banked sheet of ice with very little protection … having to make all these precise, tiny steers and flowing with the pressures of the track, all timed to the thousandth of a second," Britcher told Fox News. 

"So it's very high-risk, very small margin of error for actually finding that level of perfection," she continued.

Olympic Luger Summer Britcher interviews with Fox News Digital.

Nearly 16 years after her first ride, Britcher is still chasing her dream of getting a medal at the Olympic Games. 

"For my first Olympics in Sochi, Russia, I was very much an underdog," she said. "I think the only person who really believed that I was going to qualify was my mom."

"I kind of took it as a learning experience," Britcher said of her first