Skeleton
Thursday 4 February 2016 5 minutes reading time
THE TRACK
This plant & egrave; It was originally built in & nbsp; 1904 & nbsp; and & egrave; the 'unique in the world devoid of an artificial ice refrigeration system.
Initially, & nbsp; the track was built to enable British tourists to be able to play sports with the sled & nbsp; then, over the years the gut started to be the scene of several competitions. Throughout its history, the bowl & nbsp; & nbsp canton of Grisons, has undergone several changes in order to raise the security standard of the track; in particular the curve & nbsp; & nbsp Horse shoe, made with natural boulders was modified in the & nbsp; 1996.
The 'Olympia Bobrun & nbsp; & nbsp; Sankt Moritz has hosted so far well & nbsp; 23 world championship editions of Bobsleigh and Skeleton & nbsp; (absolute record) and especially in the & nbsp; 1948 & nbsp; & egrave; was & nbsp; Olympic venue of gut sports. The last & nbsp; world championships & nbsp; were played in 2013, & nbsp; in quell''occasione in Women's Skeleton won & nbsp; Shelley Rudman, in the men's skeleton Trionf memorize options Alexander Tretiakov, among female bob prevailed & nbsp; Kaillie Humphries in bobsleigh 2 men prevailed young German & nbsp; Francesco Friedrich & nbsp; and finally in that four is hereby memorize options & nbsp; Maximillian Arndt.
Very curious & egrave; & nbsp; preparation of this track, in fact, since there is an artificial cooling system, the casing is made every year in just three weeks in November, using an average of & nbsp; 5000 cubic meters & nbsp; snow & nbsp; and & nbsp; 4000 cubic meters of 'acquae after this season is dismantled. Therefore, every year, the 'angle & nbsp; & egrave non curves; never the same and for that reason were not registered the best cronometici feedback.
The track has a length of & nbsp; 1722 meters, the & nbsp; more & ugrave; dell''intera long season bobsled and skeleton & nbsp; and & egrave; consisting of & nbsp; 14 curves. & nbsp; Curious names are saddled with some characteristic points of the gut. The starting point & egrave; called & nbsp; Dracula, the & nbsp; & nbsp fourth curve is called & nbsp; Monti ''s bolt & nbsp; in honor of the famous episode that saw the pi & ugrave; strong Italian bobsledder of all time & nbsp; Eugenio Monti, who Olympics & nbsp; & nbsp Innsbruck 1964; Delivery memorize options a nail of his sleigh to the British & nbsp rivals, Nash & nbsp; and & nbsp; & nbsp Dixon, who won the the 'gold medal. Even the winners of that contest, call the & nbsp; turn 5 & nbsp; of the casing as the only members of the organizing club of the race to win an Olympic title. Finally, it should mention the curve 15, & nbsp; Portago Corner, dedicated to the memory of & nbsp; Alfonso de Portago & nbsp; bobbista Spanish winner in & nbsp; the world champion & nbsp bronze in 1957, and died in the same year during the automotive event & nbsp; Mille Miglia.
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