A Rockford man is the oldest ice luge racer in the world at age 80, and he’s setting records for the most consecutive years competing in the event too.
Reports say that this year marks Dick Genovese’s 48th year in a row competing in the U.S. Masters luge competition, a race for competitors 30 years and older.
He competed in Park City, Utah, against men 40 and 50 years his junior. Genovese never made an Olympic team.
He retired from Olympic-type luge competition in 1985 after racing on the U.S. national team for 16 years. But he has continued with his Masters competitions once a year, and he’s still setting records.
Genovese says his name will be put into the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest competitor and the longest continuous.
