Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh is an Olympic winter sport where a tortuous ijsparcours is made in a controlled sled equipped with a streamlined shell. Bobsleigh is derived from the English verbto bob, that move up and down means. The participants moved back and forth on straights to go faster.

The bob slips over two independent runner pairs, of which the front swivel is. There are double and quadruple bobs members that are used on fairways with strongly elevated curves. Rules on weight limit of sleigh and participants prevent the results of the matches in fact are determined by the mass that sled and participants together.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Although sledges were used, was already long bobsleigh only at the beginning of the 19th century a sport when it first was used in Switzerlanda steering mechanism. In1897 became the first bobsleigh Association founded in St. Moritz. Even before the beginning of the first world war in some countries were regular competitions held on some natural ijsparcours. The first game slides were of wood, but these were soon replaced by metal sledge.
 * Race 2
 * Sleigh 3
 * 4 Trail
 * 5 international competitions
 * 6 see also
 * 7 external links

Bobsleigh started out as a toy for the rich who in the weekend to ski resorts in the Alps went. There was not much trained, people rented a sled and went down a few times as a passenger and then as a Director.

Bobsleigh in 1953In 1923, the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation was formed: the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT). During the first Winter Olympic Games of 1924 in Chamonix (France) were four-man races held. From the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid (United States) were for the first time also two races held. At the beginning of the nineties of the twentieth century is the sport also opened to women. This drop off only in a double bob. The women are competing in the games since 2002 in Salt Lake City.

Starting from the fifties of the twentieth century changed the sport. It became clear that the start was of the utmost importance. Strong and fast athletes from other disciplines were harnessed to the sled at the start of the run to give a hefty push. In 1952 there was a maximum weight set up for the combination of the sled and the participants. If the total weight remains below the maximum allowable weight, it is allowed by the carrying of ballast to increase the weight to the maximum. This was the end of the heavier bobsled team. ==Race[ Edit] == For the two matches, the team from an inhibitor and a driver. For the four-man races are here two more pushers added. From a standing start is the bob over the first fifty meters by the team pushed on speed. This distance is covered in about six seconds. Although the differences about this first fifty metres are small, the start is extremely important. A maxim is that a difference of 0.1 seconds at the start leads to a difference of 0.3 seconds at the finish. A race takes about sixty seconds and the speeds go up to about 150 km/hour. ==Sled<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == American vrouwenbob from above<p lang="en" len="47" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The bobsleigh must meet the following requirements. ==Trail<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are fifteen courses for top level games in the Bobsleigh and skeleton. The Court in Latvia is only used for international skeletonwedstrijden. Start American vrouwenbobThe bobsleigh track of AltenbergThe bobsleigh track in Cortina d'AmpezzoThe Lake Placid bobsleigh track