Sean Hamlin, brother of luge champion Erin Hamlin, poses with a bobblehead of her Saturday in the Adirondack Bank tent at the Mount Van Hoevenberg sliding track. (News photo — Peter Crowley)

LAKE PLACID – The real Erin Hamlin has to be level-headed to handle the various pressures of being a top-notch luge athlete. But plastic Erin Hamlin is not level-headed at all.

Her noggin wobbles all over the place.

Bobblehead Hamlin dolls were a popular giveaway in the Adirondack Bank tent at Mount Van Hoevenberg Saturday after the U.S. women took the top three spots in the World Cup luge event here – with Hamlin in first. Adirondack Bank sponsors Hamlin, two months ago making her its officials spokeswoman, and as guests entered its large hospitality tent, one of the first things they saw was a table with stacks of boxed bobbleheads, along with various other freebies.

The primary talk of the tent was, of course, the U.S. women’s unprecedented podium sweep, but the bobbleheads were also a conversation piece as the crowd – largely U.S. lugers’ family members and friends – ate, talked and shared their excitement.

“I’m going to make fun of her tremendously about this,” said Sean Hamlin, Erin’s brother. “I’m going to make it the hood ornament on her car.”

Erin Hamlin bobbleheads are popular giveaways in Adirondack Bank’s hospitality tent after the U.S. women swept the podium of a World Cup luge event Saturday at Mount Van Hoevenberg near Lake Placid. (News photo — Peter Crowley)

“Thank you so much,” Dave Malone of Little Falls, a Hamlin family friend, told Adirondack Bank officials as he took a bobblehead. “This is wonderful.”

The 29-year-old from Remsen won an Olympic bronze medal in 2014 – the first Olympic medal an American has ever won in singles luge – and a World Championship in 2009. Her face has been on ads and posters and cardboard cutouts. Now she has a bobblehead, too.

It came about because Adirondack Bank already sponsors a bobblehead night for Utica College hockey and makes bobbleheads of the school’s players to give away, according to Kim Sullivan, who’s in charge of marketing for the bank. When the bank teamed up with Hamlin this fall, officials asked her if she wanted a bobblehead, too, and she said she’d love one, Sullivan said.

Adirondack Bank was established in Saranac Lake in 1898 as the Saranac Lake Co-Operative Savings and Loan Association. It was sold in 1990 and changed its name to Adirondack Bank in 1995. Now it has 14 branches in Oneida and Herkimer counties, plus two in Saranac Lake, one in Lake Placid and one in Plattsburgh.