BobsleighBob - Sankt Moritz
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Next weekend the maximum circuit bob and skeleton track will make a stop on the legendary Olympia Bobrun Sankt Moritz.
Thursday 9 January 2014 6 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.
Initially, the track was built to enable British tourists to be able to practice the sport with the sled then, over the years, the gut has begun to be the scene of various competitions. Throughout its history, the basin of the Grisons region has undergone several changes in order to raise the standard of safety of the track, in particular the curve Horse shoe made with natural boulders was amended in 1996.
L'' Olympia Bobrun Sankt Moritz has hosted since now no less than 23 editions iridescent bobsled and skeleton (absolute record) and above in 1948 was the site of the Olympic sport of gut. The last world championships were played in the last edition, in that'' at the Women's Skeleton Shelley Rudman won, Alexander Tretyakov triumphed in the men's skeleton, women's bobsled prevailed among Kaillie Humphries, bobsled 2 men prevailed the young German Francis Friedrich and finally asserted itself in the four Maximillian Arndt.
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.
TELEVISION
Both the World Cup skeleton that the bob will be broadcast live from streaming youtube channel of the International Federation.
-FRIDAY January 10th 10.00 am First Round Skeleton Male
FRIDAY-January 10 11.30 Second Heat Skeleton Male
-Saturday, January 11 HOURS 8:30 First Round Skeleton Female
-Saturday, January 11 9:45 HOURS Bob Women's First Round
Saturday, January 11th-10.45 Second Heat Skeleton Female
Saturday, January 11th-12.00 Second Heat Bob Female
-Saturday, January 11 HOURS 13:15 First Round Two Bob Male
-Saturday, January 11 14:45 HOURS Second Manche Bob Two Men
-Sunday, January 12 09.00 First Round Skeleton Male
-Sunday, January 12 HOURS 10:15 First Round Bob to four
-Sunday, January 12 11.30 Second Heat Skeleton Male
-Sunday, January 12 12:45 HOURS Second Manche Bob to four
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