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This coming weekend, the protagonists of artificial luge track will return to compete on the track at Whistler after ten months of the'' latest edition of the world championships.
Thursday 5 December 2013 3 minutes reading time
The Canadian gut is infamous for the tragic accident that took the lives of the poor luger Nodar Kumaritashvili on the eve of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Vancuver 2010, which forced the organizing committee to reduce the length of the track. However, the recent global organizers have changed the start of the competitions of double and single female making it a bit more'' along the way.
The basin of Whistler made his debut on the international scene in the 2008-2009 season with the pre-Olympic competitions that saw the emergence in Germany all three disciplines of the sled. In fact, among women won Natalie Geissenberger among men while David Moeller between the double-Wuestilich Florschuetz prevailed.
'' The next year they graduated in the Olympic test samples: Felix Loch in the men's singles, women's Tatjana Huefner in the test and the Austrians Linger-Linger in doubles.
The Olympic track has subsequently organized a'' test only other World Cup in the 2011-2012 season. '' On that occasion they returned to the success of the Olympic champions of the double and single men as among women prevailed Natalie Geisenberger.
In this path is fundamental that the starting phase is constituted by a rectilinear practically flat, in fact, the track begins to descend from the curve 2 forward. Among other characteristic points of this system stand out: the curve 7 called Luders Loop to remember the accident that occurred at that point'' to the great Canadian bobsledder, and the sequence of curves 12,13, 14 and 15, along a maze where you just a small mistake to lose any chance of the podium and not surprisingly was renamed Golden Rush.
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