LugeTobogganing - Natural
Good news for the future of natural luge track. '' And these days the news that both the Austrian and the Turkish federation have decided to invest in this discipline, intrapprendendo of incentive programs to the practice of this sport.
Sunday 27 July 2014 4 minutes reading time
The natural toboggan although it is a discipline highly spectacular and the costs fairly low compared to other sports in the gut, has never had a large following of the public, as the International Federation (FIL) which was supposed to ensure the interests often has the'' colpevolemente overshadowed more emphasis being placed on famous artificial luge track.
In the last two seasons, however, things started to change. The FIL cornered by the pressures of the nations most historically Winning (Italy, Austria, Germany and Russia) has started giving a tone professional in this discipline, first by introducing restrictions on the number of athletes eligible for national single race format and subsequently experiencing particular as evidence in parallel.
These introductions have brought new life to the specialty facilitating the entry of new'' national'' and arousing the interest of the media:'' year quest fact, for the first time the Eurosport television network aired a full report of the'' entire season of the World Cup.
The work of the FIL voted to continued international growth of the sport may have found some serious allies in the Federations Austrian and Turkish. In Austria, where there are already five schools of natural toboggan (Mariazell, Aflenz, Thoerl, Buggern and Stadl) Quest Summer'' is started a project approach over 500 kids to try tobogganing Wheel, which is the summer version of the natural luge track. '' The goal of Rodel Austria to spread the discipline along the national territory'' and with the help of federal technicians and former athletes to seek out new talent to enter in the youth teams.
In Turkey, similarly, started a training camp in Erzerum will be attended by around 150 athletes aged between 12 and 19 years old, from which come the names comporanno the turkish team in the coming seasons.
The hope is that these new accompanied by an increasing number of practitioners will enable the International Federation to present a serious condidatura of the sport at the next congress of the IOC, to ensure that the natural luge track will become part of the Olympic program.
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