Olympic Sports Complex Sliding Track
The fastest winter sports happen on this ribbon of concrete, steel and ice that zigs and zags down the face of Mt. Van Hoevenberg. It's on this track that the world's best bobsled, luge and skeleton racers slide, and it's here that you can see—and feel—what it's like to rocket down a mountain.
Ten years ago, we built a new, combined bobsled, luge and skeleton track at the Olympic Sports Complex. The track is nearly a mile long, makes 20 turns while dropping more than 400 feet and—at competition speeds—exerts more than five times the force of gravity on the racers. (Space shuttle astronauts, for comparison, endure just 3-Gs at launch.) It's a demanding and exhilarating course that has become a regular stop on the World Cup circuit and site of the 2009 Bobsled, Skeleton and Luge World Championships and 2010 Bobsled/Skeleton World Cup.
Come out to see a race. Stand along side the track with packs of cheering fans and feel the rumble of a bobsled as it banks a turn. Follow a skeleton racer sliding at Autobahn speeds and realize his chin is just three inches off the ice. Or marvel at the silent speed of a luge athlete racing by at over 90 miles per hour.
Then try it yourself. Get in a bobsled with our professional drivers and brakemen—or go it alone on a skeleton sled — and slide into Olympic tradition.
