Bermuda at the 1998 Winter Olympics

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[7]

Singleton was 23 years old at the time of the Nagano Olympics, and was making his Olympic debut.^[8] The men's singles competition in luge was a four run race, held over two days, 8–9 February, with two runs on each day, and the sum of all four run times determining the final positions.^[9] On the first day, Singleton completed his first run in 51.434 seconds,^[10] and his second run in 51.579 seconds.^[11] Overnight, Singleton sat in 28th place out of 33 competitors.^[12] The next day, he completed his third run in 51.839 seconds,^[13] and his fourth in 52.243 seconds, meaning he had gotten slower in each successive run.^[14] Singleton's final time was 3 minutes and 27.095 seconds, which put him in 27th position.^[9] The gold medal was won by Georg Hackl of Germany in 3 minutes and 18.436 seconds, the silver medal was won by Italy's Armin Zöggeler, and the bronze by German Jens Müller.^[9]