It is getting hotter day by day. Also the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is coming up. Maybe you will agree that the Winter Olympic most anticipated event is bobsleigh. Seoul city will open the ` Bobsleigh in the city` (water slide) This cool good news! It will open from August 19 to 20. Also a lot of stars will participate in this festival. The height of this slide reaches 22m and length reaches 300m. We can ride tube alone. But don`t forget only 5000 people can enter in one day.
A lot of people think of this sport as simple and easy,
however, it`s not. First, bobsleigh is an ice sport with big sleds. It`s a race and has records like short track
speed skating but bobsleigh was made earlier than skating.
Second, this sport was first made in Switzerland in the late 19th century, and it was adopted as a formal Olympic event in 1924 in the first winter Olympics but before the first Olympics, the first track was made in Sankt Moritz and in 1923 where the International Bobsleigh and skeleton Federation was set up. Third, the sled uses a special track made of ice. When sled is moving, speeds of 135km/h are reached and gravity is higher than 4Gs in the corners of the track. The track`s length is 800m to 1300m, and There are 10 to 11 corners. Bobsleigh has two events. A two person and four person event. Each person has different job.
In four person game, the first person is a pilot, second and third is pushmen and second, third and fourth are breakmen. In the two person event the second person does more work. Bobsleigh dangerous but many people love this exiting sports. SSang