Facelift of Calgary’s ’88 sliding track to bring change for bobsleigh team
Calgary’s Olympic sliding track is getting a makeover after three decades and a quarter of a million bobsled, luge and skeleton runs.
A $20-million renovation scheduled for the summer of 2018 will dramatically alter the upper section of the track at Canada Olympic Park, which has been the home of Canada’s sliding teams since it was built for the 1988 Winter Games.
Canadians have won six bobsled and four skeleton medals at the Olympics, including five gold, since then.
The current track is the shape of a Y with the upper section of the bobsled/skeleton track merging with the luge track a third of the way down the course.