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Olympia Eiskanal
Concrete Olympic bobsled and luge track cut into the mountainside, still open for guest rides.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Olympia Eiskanal in Igls, above Innsbruck, follows Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki, a Polish-born former Royal Air Force pilot racing for Britain in luge's first-ever Olympic event. Days before the nineteen sixty-four Winter Games opened, he took a training run down the brand-new concrete track built into the mountainside. The guide also traces how that same track was rebuilt for the nineteen seventy-six Games as the world's first combined bob, luge and skeleton circuit. Look for the looping Kreisel curve partway down the run.
This audio guide was created using AI.