Bobsleigh
Thanks to the clever editing done by the Swiss organizers, we reveal how we are building the bobsleigh and skeleton oldest and most famous of the story:'' Olympia Bob Run in St. Moritz.
Wednesday 27 November 2013 3 minutes reading time
This facility was opened in 1904 and is the only one in the world'' devoid of a system of artificial refrigeration of the ice.
Very curious is the phase of preparation of this track, in fact, since there is a system of artificial cooling, the casing is made each year in just three weeks in the month of November, using an average of 5000 cubic meters of snow and 4000 cubic meters d '' Water is dismantled and the end of the season. Therefore, every year,'' the angle of the curve is never the same and for this reason have not been registered with the best evidence cronometici.
The track has a length of 1722 meters, the longest of the entire season'' bobsled and skeleton, and consists of 14 turns. Curious names are saddled with some characteristic points of the gut. The starting point is called Dracula, the curve 4a named Monti'' s bolt in honor of the famous episode that saw the strongest of all time Italian bobsledder Eugenio Monti, who in 1964 handed over the Olympic Games in Innsbruck a nail in his sleigh to British rivals Nash and Dixon won the gold medal''. The same winners of that race, call the curve of the casing 5 as the only members of the club organizer of the race to win an Olympic title. Finally, we should mention the curve 15, Portago Corner, dedicated to the memory of Alfonso de Portago bobbista Spanish winner of the bronze in 1957 and world champion who died in the same year during the event Mille Miglia car.
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