Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, Kunsteisbahn in Lace Placid, Vereinigte Staaten
Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run is a bobsled racing track in Lake Placid, New York. It runs down a wooded hillside and consists of a long series of banked turns built and iced for high-speed sliding.
The track was built for the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, making it one of the first of its kind in North America. It was used again for the 1980 Winter Olympics, also held in Lake Placid, and has remained in use since.
Mt. Van Hoevenberg is deeply tied to Lake Placid's identity as a town that hosted the Winter Olympics twice. Visiting the run gives a sense of how seriously the local community takes its connection to winter sport.
Visitors can ride as passengers on bobsled runs without any prior experience in the sport. Warm layers are a good idea, as the ride moves fast and the cold air on the track can catch you off guard.
Lake Placid is one of the very few cities in the world to have hosted the Winter Olympics twice, and this track was in use at both Games. That makes it one of the oldest active sliding tracks connected to Olympic competition anywhere in the world.
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