List of Olympic venues in skeleton

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Start at the Cresta Run in St. Moritz, host of the skeleton events for both the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics. Image-Start Cresta.jpg
Start at the Cresta Run in St. Moritz, host of the skeleton events for both the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics.
Turn 16 at The Whistler Sliding Centre in 2008. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the venue hosted the skeleton events. Whistler bobsleigh.jpg
Turn 16 at The Whistler Sliding Centre in 2008. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the venue hosted the skeleton events.

For the Winter Olympics, there have been six venues that have been or will be used for skeleton. When the Winter Olympics were in St. Moritz, they took place at the Cresta Run for both 1928 and 1948. Since being re-introduced at the 2002 Winter Olympics, skeleton has shared the same venue with the other sliding sports of bobsleigh and luge.

GamesVenueOther sports hosted at venue for those gamesCapacityRef.
1928 St. Moritz Cresta Run NoneNot listed. [1]
1948 St. Moritz Cresta Run NoneNot listed. [2]
2002 Salt Lake City Utah Olympic Park Track Bobsleigh, Luge 15,000 [3]
2006 Turin Cesana Pariol Bobsleigh, Luge 4,400 [4]
2010 Vancouver The Whistler Sliding Centre Bobsleigh, Luge 12,000 [5]
2014 Sochi Sliding Center Sanki Bobsleigh, Luge 9,000 [6]
2018 PyeongChang Olympic Sliding Centre Bobsleigh, Luge 7,000 (including 6,000 standing) [7]
2022 Beijing Yanqing National Sliding Centre Bobsleigh, Luge 10,000 (including 8,500 standing)
2026 Milan-Cortina Eugenio Monti Olympic Track Bobsleigh, Luge Not listed.
2030 French Alps La Plagne Bobsleigh, Luge 16,000
2034 Salt Lake City-Utah Utah Olympic Park Track Bobsleigh, Luge 12,000

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun</span> Swiss bobsleigh run

The Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz-Celerina is a bobsleigh track located in the Engadin Valley, Switzerland. It officially opened on New Year's Day 1904 and is the oldest bobsleigh track in the world. It is also the only one that is naturally refrigerated. It is used for other sliding sports, including skeleton and luge.

For the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a total of five sports venues were used. The main stadium hosted the figure skating, ice hockey, and speed skating events. Skeleton was first held at the Cresta Run. Bobsleigh was held at the bob run. St. Moritz itself served as cross-country skiing venue and the cross-country part of the Nordic combined event. Weather gave two events run at these games problems, creating the largest margin of victory in Olympic history for one and the cancellation of the other.

For the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a total of eight sports venues were used. The five venues used for the 1928 Winter Olympics were reused for these games. Three new venues were added for alpine skiing which had been added to the Winter Olympics program twelve years earlier in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. As of 2015, the bob run continues to be used for bobsleigh and the Cresta Run for skeleton while alpine skiing remains popular in St. Moritz.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Venues of the 1976 Winter Olympics</span>

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.

References

  1. ↑ 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine Part 2. p. 14. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
  2. ↑ 1948 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 6, 23. Accessed 18 October 2010. (in French and German)
  3. ↑ 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 84-7. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  4. ↑ 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 61-3. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
  5. ↑ "Venues–The Whistler Sliding Centre". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Archived from the original on 2010-12-25. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  6. ↑ Sochi2014.com profile of the Russian National Sliding Centre. Accessed 31 December 2010.
  7. ↑ "2018 Winter Olympics official website – Olympic Sliding Centre". Archived from the original on 10 February 2018.
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