List of Olympic venues in bobsleigh

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Portrait of the start of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in 1905. The venue hosted the bobsleigh events for both the 1928 and the 1948 Winter Olympics. Johannes Martini Bobbahn St Moritz.jpg
Portrait of the start of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in 1905. The venue hosted the bobsleigh events for both the 1928 and the 1948 Winter Olympics.
Cesana Pariol hosted the bobsleigh events for the 2006 Winter Olympics in neighboring Turin. Cesana Torinese-Bobsleigh.jpg
Cesana Pariol hosted the bobsleigh events for the 2006 Winter Olympics in neighboring Turin.

For the Winter Olympics, there are 19 venues that have or will host bobsleigh. Initially the only sliding sport for the Winter Games, it was first combined with luge in 1976. It has been that way since 1984 and skeleton since 2002.

GamesVenueOther sports hosted at venue for those gamesCapacityRef.
1924 Chamonix La Piste de Bobsleigh des Pellerins NoneNot listed. [1]
1928 St. Moritz St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun NoneNot listed [2]
1932 Lake Placid Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bob-Run None12,500 [3]
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Riessersee Ice hockey, Speed skating 17,940 (Bobsleigh), 16,000 (Ice hockey, Speed skating) [4]
1948 St. Mortiz St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun NoneNot listed. [5]
1952 Oslo Korketrekkeren NoneNot listed [6]
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Pista di bob None4,650 [7]
1964 Innsbruck Bob und Rodelbahn Igls Luge (separate track)Not listed. [8]
1968 Grenoble Piste de Bobsleigh NoneNot listed. [9]
1972 Sapporo Mt. Teine Bobsleigh Course NoneNot listed. [10]
1976 Innsbruck Kominierte Kunsteisbahn für Bob-Rodel Igls Luge Not listed. [11]
1980 Lake Placid Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bob and Luge Run Luge (Separate track)11,000 (bobsleigh) [12]
1984 Sarajevo Trebević Luge 4,000 (luge)
7,500 (bobsleigh)
[13]
1988 Calgary Canada Olympic Park (includes bobsleigh/luge track) Freestyle skiing (demonstration), Luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping), Ski jumping 25,000 (bobsleigh/luge)
35,000 (ski jumping)
15,000 (freestyle)
[14]
1992 Albertville La Plagne Luge Not listed. [15]
1994 Lillehammer Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track Luge 10,000 [16]
1998 Nagano Spiral Luge 10,000 [17]
2002 Salt Lake City Utah Olympic Park (Utah Olympic Park bobsleigh/luge/skeleton track|bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track) Luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping), Skeleton, Ski Jumping 18,100 (ski jumping)
15,000 (bobsleigh, luge, skeleton)
[18]
2006 Turin Cesana Pariol Luge, Skeleton 4,400 [19]
2010 Vancouver The Whistler Sliding Centre Luge, Skeleton 12,000 [20]
2014 Sochi Sliding Center Sanki Luge, Skeleton 9,000 [21]
2018 PyeongChang Olympic Sliding Centre Luge, Skeleton 7,000 (including 6,000 standing) [22]

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Venues of the 1976 Winter Olympics

For the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, a total of eight sports venues were used. The games were originally awarded to Denver, Colorado in the United States in 1970, but they withdrew in the wake of Colorado residents voting against it for environmental and cost reasons in November 1972. This led to the International Olympic Committee opening up the bids for the games again, eventually awarding them to Innsbruck in February 1973. The Austrian city, having hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964, was in the process of having the venues used for those Games before Denver's with clear cutting of the alpine skiing venues, lessening of the amount of cross-country skiing routes, upgrading the ski jumps, adding lighting in the indoor sports arena to accommodate color television, and the construction of a combination bobsleigh and luge track. After the 1976 Games, the venues have remained in use, hosting events in Nordic skiing and the sliding sports. They hosted some of the events for the Winter Universiade in 2005 and seven of the eight venues served as host for the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012.

Venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics

For the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, United States, a total of seven sports venues were used. All five of the venues used for the 1932 Winter Olympics were also used at the 1980 Winter Games with adjustments. These adjustments included electronic scoreboards, increased refrigeration, and the addition of a separate luge track. This was the last Winter Olympics where there were separate bobsleigh and luge tracks. The closest finish in Olympic history in cross-country skiing led skiing officials to time future events in hundredths of a second rather than tenths of a second. This would also apply to biathlon events. Eric Heiden won five gold medals at the speed skating oval while the "Miracle on Ice" took place between Americans and Soviets at the Olympic Center. In the late 1990s, the luge track was demolished and a new combination track was constructed in time for the only Winter Goodwill Games held. The sliding venue was named to the American National Register of Historical Places in February 2010.

References

  1. 1924 Olympic Games official report (combines Chamonix and Paris). Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 652-3. (in French)
  2. 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine Part 2. pp. 12-13. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
  3. 1932 Winter Olympic Games official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 30, 39-41, 50-1, 141, 157-66. Accessed 12 October 2010.
  4. 1936 Olympic Winter Games official report. Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine pp. 70, 71, 74, 132-40, 153, 408-419. Accessed 16 October 2010. (in German)
  5. 1948 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 6, 23. Accessed 18 October 2010. (in French and German)
  6. 1952 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine p. 38.
  7. The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIIth Winter Olympic Games 1956 at Cortina. (1956) CONI. pp. 175-9, 191. Accessed 24 October 2010. (in English and Italian)
  8. 1964 Winter Olympic Games Official report. Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine pp. 40, 65, 69, 165, 178, 180. Accessed 30 October 2010. (in German)
  9. 1968 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 104-105. Accessed 1 November 2010. (in English and French)
  10. 1972 Olympic Winter Games official report. pp. 129, 252, 273-80. Accessed 6 November 2010. (in English and French)
  11. 1976 Winter Olympics official report Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine , pp. 143-5, 153, 186-7, 206-208. Accessed 10 November 2010. (in English and French), and (in German)
  12. 1980 Winter Olympic Games official report - Volume 1. pp. 57-66. Accessed 16 November 2010. (in English and French)
  13. 1984 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 61, 64-70, 107, 180, 184. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and Serbo-Croatian)
  14. 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 110-27. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
  15. 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 92-95, 350-5. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
  16. 1994 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 37-41. Accessed 8 December 2010.
  17. 1998 Winter Olympics official report Volume 2. pp. 184-5, 226-9. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  18. 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 84-7. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  19. 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 61-3. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
  20. "VenuesThe Whistler Sliding Centre". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  21. Sochi2014.com profile of the Russian National Sliding Centre. Accessed 31 December 2010.
  22. "2018 Winter Olympics official website – Olympic Sliding Centre". Archived from the original on 10 February 2018.