--- title: Sochi Olympics: Long Island Dad Makes Backyard Snow Luge Track description: A little slice of Sochi, right here in the USA canonical: https://time.com/11473/dad-builds-backyard-snow-luge/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-03T16:53:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:24.454Z og:title: Sochi Olympics: Long Island Dad Makes Backyard Snow Luge Track og:description: A little slice of Sochi, right here in the USA og:url: https://time.com/11473/dad-builds-backyard-snow-luge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt263ed15fa21f7ef0/69868382810bbb22ddc903f2/screen-shot-2014-03-03-at-12-26-04-pm.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-03-03 at 12.26.04 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sochi Olympics: Long Island Dad Makes Backyard Snow Luge Track twitter:description: A little slice of Sochi, right here in the USA twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt263ed15fa21f7ef0/69868382810bbb22ddc903f2/screen-shot-2014-03-03-at-12-26-04-pm.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Awesome Dad Builds Fully Functioning Backyard Luge Track For His Kids by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 3, 2014 4:53 PM UTC  Youtube by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 3, 2014 4:53 PM UTC Wanting to bring some of the excitement of the Winter Olympics to his very own backyard, Long Island dad Jay Venini built a luge track for his kids to enjoy. It’s very patriotic and his kids are super into it. Regular old sledding will never be the same again now that we know this exists. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/11473/dad-builds-backyard-snow-luge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/11473/dad-builds-backyard-snow-luge/"},"headline":"Awesome Dad Builds Fully Functioning Backyard Luge Track For His Kids","datePublished":"2014-03-03T16:53:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:24.454Z","description":"A little slice of Sochi, right here in the USA","url":"https://time.com/11473/dad-builds-backyard-snow-luge/","keywords":["Newsfeed","weather","olympics","snow","Sochi","Appreciation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt263ed15fa21f7ef0/69868382810bbb22ddc903f2/screen-shot-2014-03-03-at-12-26-04-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt263ed15fa21f7ef0/69868382810bbb22ddc903f2/screen-shot-2014-03-03-at-12-26-04-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-03-03 at 12.26.04 PM","caption":"","creditText":"Youtube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/11473/dad-builds-backyard-snow-luge/","name":"Awesome Dad Builds Fully Functioning Backyard Luge Track For His Kids"}}]}] ```