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The combination track of the Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run at Lake Placid in 2005. For the 1980 Winter Olympics, the luge track was located there.
Men's tower start house at the Canada Olympic Park bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in 2006. The men's singles luge event started here during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
For the
Winter Olympics , there are 14
venues that have been or will be used for
luge . Initially separate from
bobsleigh , the sports were first combined in
1976 . Luge was combined with
bobsleigh finally in
1984 and then with
skeleton in
2002 .
Games
Venue
Other sports hosted at venue for those games
Capacity
Ref.
1964 Innsbruck
Bob und Rodelbahn Igls
Bobsleigh (separate track)
Not listed.
[1]
1968 Grenoble
Piste de Luge
None
Not listed.
[2]
1972 Sapporo
Mt. Teine Luge Course
None
Not listed.
[3]
1976 Innsbruck
Kominierte Kunsteisbahn für Bob-Rodel Igls
Bobsleigh
Not listed.
[4]
1980 Lake Placid
Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bob and Luge Run
Bobsleigh (separate track)
11,000 (bobsleigh)
[5]
1984 Sarajevo
Trebević
Bobsleigh
4,000 (luge) 7,500 (bobsleigh)
[6]
1988 Calgary
Canada Olympic Park (includes
bobsleigh/luge track )
Bobsleigh ,
Freestyle skiing (demonstration),
Nordic combined (ski jumping),
Ski jumping
25,000 (bobsleigh/luge) 35,000 (ski jumping) 15,000 (freestyle)
[7]
1992 Albertville
La Plagne
Bobsleigh
Not listed.
[8]
1994 Lillehammer
Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Bobsleigh
10,000
[9]
1998 Nagano
Spiral
Bobsleigh
10,000
[10]
2002 Salt Lake City
Utah Olympic Park (includes
bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track )
Bobsleigh ,
Nordic combined (ski jumping),
Skeleton ,
Ski Jumping
18,100(ski jumping) 15,000 (bobsleigh, luge, skeleton)
[11]
2006 Turin
Cesana Pariol
Bobsleigh ,
Skeleton
4,400
[12]
2010 Vancouver
The Whistler Sliding Centre
Bobsleigh ,
Skeleton
12,000
[13]
2014 Sochi
Sliding Center Sanki
Bobsleigh ,
Skeleton
9,000
[14]
2018 PyeongChang
Olympic Sliding Centre
Bobsleigh ,
Skeleton
7,000 (including 6,000 standing)
[15]
2022 Beijing
Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Bobsleigh ,
Skeleton
5,000
References
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1964 Winter Olympic Games Official report.
Archived 2012-02-07 at the
Wayback Machine pp. 40, 65, 69, 165, 178, 180. Accessed 30 October 2010. (in German)
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1968 Winter Olympics official report.
Archived 2008-02-26 at the
Wayback Machine pp. 102-104. Accessed 1 November 2010. (in English and French)
^
1972 Olympic Winter Games official report. pp. 129, 252, 273-80. Accessed 6 November 2010. (in English and French)
^
1976 Winter Olympics official report
Archived 2008-02-26 at the
Wayback Machine , pp. 143-5, 153, 186-7, 206-208. Accessed 10 November 2010. (in English and French) , and (in German)
^
1980 Winter Olympic Games official report - Volume 1. pp. 57-66. Accessed 16 November 2010. (in English and French)
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1984 Winter Olympics official report.
Archived 2011-11-26 at the
Wayback Machine pp. 61, 64-70, 107, 180, 184. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and Serbo-Croatian)
^
1988 Winter Olympics official report.
Archived 2011-01-14 at the
Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 110-27. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
^
1992 Winter Olympics official report.
Archived 2008-02-26 at the
Wayback Machine pp. 92-95, 350-5. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
^
1994 Winter Olympics official report.
Archived 2010-12-02 at the
Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 37-41. Accessed 8 December 2010.
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1998 Winter Olympics official report Volume 2. pp. 184-5, 226-9. Accessed 12 December 2010.
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2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 84-7. Accessed 21 December 2010.
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2006 Winter Olympics official report.
Archived 2010-05-06 at the
Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 61-3. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
^
"Venues–The Whistler Sliding Centre" . Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10 .
^
Sochi2014.com profile of the Russian National Sliding Centre. Accessed 31 December 2010.
^
"2018 Winter Olympics official website – Olympic Sliding Centre" . Archived from
the original on 10 February 2018.