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The Utah Olympic Park Track is a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in the United States, located in the Utah Olympic Park near Park City, Utah. During the 2002 Winter Olympics in nearby Salt Lake City, the track hosted the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton events. Today the track still serves as a training center for Olympic and development level athletes and hosts numerous local and international competitions. It is one of two national tracks; the other is at Mt. Van Hoevenberg near Lake Placid, New York.
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- 2006 men's skeleton results
- FIBT profile [ dead link ]
- Skeletonsport.com profile
- Yahoo! Sports profile for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived October 15, 2012)
