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Team USA luger Emily Sweeney will be returning for her second Olympic Games in Beijing after breaking her neck in the 2018 Olympics. Sweeney said that she remembers everything that happened during the accident, but that it didn’t feel as painful for her as it looked for the viewers. “Your body is an amazing thing and it slowed down, so it looked much more intense for the viewer than what it felt as I was going through it because your body just slows everything down and I knew once I hit the top of the track, I knew that I was going to hit the bottom so I had to curl my head up and that saved m…