Meet Summer Britcher, the U.S. luge star who was parodied in an SNL skit

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With the Winter Olympics coming up, Saturday Night Live chose to feature a few sports, and one of them was luge.

Very few SNL viewers would've known who the skit was depicting. But U.S. star Summer Britcher knew -- the fake character was meant to be her.

"(It was) a tall, lean woman who just happened to be racing on a yellow sled, which isn’t exactly a common color in luge," wrote the Associated Press' Tim Reynolds. "Britcher is tall, lean and, you guessed it, races on a yellow sled. The everyday SNL viewer probably didn’t make the connection. Those who know Britcher got it almost immediately."

Britcher enjoyed it.

“I thought it was so funny,” Britcher told the AP. “I had no idea it was coming. My boyfriend sent it to me and as I was watching it, just more and more of the details stood out. And I was like, ‘Hey, hang on a second.’”

Britcher may be a lot more famous soon.

On Monday, she'll race for a medal in the luge.

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Who is Summer Britcher?

Britcher is a 31-year old U.S. luge star from Baltimore, Maryland.

She first competed at the Olympics in 2014.

Britcher hasn't medaled at the Olympics, but she has earned a bronze and a silver in the team relay at the world championships.

Growing up in luge, Britcher spent time training in Lake Placid.

She was a high school soccer and tennis player in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, and she has worked her way up in the world of luge since then.

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Is Summer Britcher good at luge?

Britcher is the best U.S. women's luge competitor ever, on paper.

She has seven career singles race wins on the World Cup circuit. Nobody from the United States has ever had more.

And given she's facing the best when she races there, that gives Britcher a chance to compete for a podium spot in Italy, for sure.

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