--- description: Watch Olympic luge athlete Shiva Keshavan race down a busy highway and even slide under a truck title: Spicy Runnings: How India’s Luge Athlete Trains for the Olympics image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde9d1b8c7a9c38d5/69868288d0b6f248f4302ed7/shiva-keshavan_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [olympics](/tag/olympics/) ## olympics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Spicy Runnings: How India's Luge Athlete Trains for the Olympics by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 8, 2014 7:12 PM CUT  by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 8, 2014 7:12 PM CUT Indian luge athlete Shiva Keshavan [was first introduced](http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/07/sport/india-cool-runnings-luge-winter-olympics "undefined") to the sport as a teen—when he was shown some luge videos, followed by a screening of [_Cool Runnings_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLlmymHRNZg "undefined")—and quickly picked it up. Now he’s the country’s main medal hope at the Winter Olympics which start in Sochi next month. There are no luge tracks in India on which to practice, so Keshavan has had to be creative about his training. Replacing the blades on his sled with wheels, he takes advantage of the steep, winding highways in the Himalayan foothills. Traffic? No problem. Man herding sheep? No problem. Just don’t try this on a road near you. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6075/himalayan-highway-stunt-indias-version-of-cool-runnings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6075/himalayan-highway-stunt-indias-version-of-cool-runnings/"},"headline":"Spicy Runnings: How India's Luge Athlete Trains for the Olympics","datePublished":"2014-01-08T19:12:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:21:32.569Z","description":"Watch Olympic luge athlete Shiva Keshavan race down a busy highway and even slide under a truck","url":"https://time.com/6075/himalayan-highway-stunt-indias-version-of-cool-runnings/","keywords":["olympics","India","Winter Olympics","Sochi"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde9d1b8c7a9c38d5/69868288d0b6f248f4302ed7/shiva-keshavan_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde9d1b8c7a9c38d5/69868288d0b6f248f4302ed7/shiva-keshavan_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"shiva-keshavan_1280","caption":"","creditText":"","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":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/olympics/","name":"olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6075/himalayan-highway-stunt-indias-version-of-cool-runnings/","name":"Spicy Runnings: How India's Luge Athlete Trains for the Olympics"}}]}] ```