Introduction and Scheduling of Sliding Sports at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.

 

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In the last post, we looked at the schedule of events and games that are in the snow and ice.
Today, let's talk about sliding sports and its’ event.

 

 

 

 

Let's start with Sliding.

Sliding include kind of 3 sports.

Luge, Skeleton, bobsled

 

 

 

 

 

1.     Luge

Luge is a sport in which you run from 1,000 to 1,500 meters in a small sled with your feet forward and your face toward the sky. One (single) or two (double) athletes will start each. Private events add up the records of four runs in two days. The two (2) seats shall be carried out by adding the times the team has run two (2) times a day and the team relay shall be carried out by one (1) time. It's measured to a thousandth of a second.

 

 

 

2.     Skeleton

Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled (or -sleigh), down a frozen track while lying face down. Unlike other sliding sports of bobsleigh and luge, the race always involves single riders. Like bobsleigh, but unlike luge, the race begins with a running start from the opening gate at the top of the course. The sport (and the sled) were named from the bony appearance of the sled.

 

 

 

3.     Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four teammates make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. The timed runs are combined to calculate the final score.

The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks were built in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where the original bobsleds were adapted upsized luge/skeleton sleds designed by the adventurously wealthy to carry passengers. All three types were adapted from boys' delivery sleds and toboggans.

 

Competition naturally followed, and to protect the working class and rich visitors in the streets and byways of St Moritz, bobsledding was eventually banned from the public highway. In the winter of 1903/1904 the Badrutt family, owners of the historic Kulm Hotel and the Palace Hotel, allowed Emil Thoma to organise the construction of the first familiarly configured 'half-pipe' track in the Kulm Hotel Park, ending in the village of Cresta. It has hosted the sport during two Olympics and is still in use today.

 

 

I hope the effort of the athletes who have worked hard for 4 years will be good.

 

 

 

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