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This weekend officially kicks off the 30th edition of the World Cup bobsled. As is the case for almost 6 years now, the maximum circuit bob was joined by the calendar of the skeleton that is about to inaugurate the 26th season valid for the crystal ball.
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Will the Canada Olympic Park bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Calgary, to kick off the season delicate of the two Olympic disciplines of gut managed by the FIBT.
The track'' of Alberta was completed in the spring of 1986 in time for the first test run of testing ahead of the 1988 Winter Olympics. The Canadian track consists of 48 sections of concrete and comes with five different starting points to allow the dispute to all disciplines of the gut.
'' The system is equipped with a system of artificial refrigeration that allows you to organize races even at temperatures around twenty degrees Celsius. To reduce the costs of management, in the points of the track more exposed to solar radiation were applied the appropriate panels which allow to avoid the melting of ice.
In 2001 was inaugurated a pistino thrust indoor adjacent to the gut, which allows Canadian athletes to train during the long summer break.
The track of Calgary has some characteristic points that athletes will face with special attention. Among these must not forget the sequence of curves called Omega 6,7 ​​and 8 that leads into kreisel 270 °, and the maze, ie the succession of curves 10,11,12 and 13 which leads to the curve of the goal.
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