SkeletonIBSFsliding #Gaspari slidingcentre #Whistler
Thursday 21 January 2016 4 minutes reading time
THE TRACK
With the 'exclusion from the calendar of Sanki Olympic Sliding Centre of Sochi, the' plant of British Columbia & egrave; gut pi & ugrave; youngest of the eight part dell''edizione 2015-2016 World Cup skeleton.
The track held to mark the Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010 & egrave; It was completed in December 2007 after about a year and a half of work. The 'facility has received the' approval for the dispute of international competitions in March 2008 & nbsp; at the end of a long test phase in which they were carried out over 200 runs from six different starting points.
The track from the first tests had proved extremely fast, tant '' & egrave; tains that in 2009 the German luger Felix Loch had touched 153.98 km / h a bit of speed & agrave; never seen before.
The Whistler Sliding Centre & egrave; tutt''ora infamous for the tragic accident that occurred on Feb. 12, 2010, when on the eve of the ceremony of 'opening of the Games in Vancouver, in recent time trials lost his life the Georgian luger & nbsp; Nodar Kumaritashvili. From that sad day the original path of the sled male was shortened with a lowering of the departure that EVIT & ograve; to transit the point dell''incidente at very high speed & agrave ;. However, these changes were not made to other disciplines who maintained the same starting point.
Throughout history the gut of British Columbia has hosted only four times the World Cup skeleton. In the first edition dates back to the 2008-2009 season was imposed on Canadian Jon Montgomery that the 'following year aggiudic & ograve; the 'Olympic gold on the same track, while among women excels & ograve; Germany's Marion Trott-Thees. The 'last time the maximum circuit skeleton made stops in Whistler & egrave; was nell''inverno 2012-2013, nell''occasione triumphed Germans Frank Rommel and re-Thees Marion Trott.
The track has a total length of 1,450 meters and & egrave; consisting of 16 curves. The critical steps of this track are: the curve 7 ribatezzata Lueders Loop after the famous pilot Canadian & egrave; reversed during the first acceptance tests, the Gold Rush Trail that is a long labyrinth of curves without the bench & egrave; minimum straight consists of the curves 12, 13, 14 and 15 and finally the Thunderbird who places on the finish line.
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