provided for the 4-hour whirlwind tour of our local experts Jocelyne Morrison from Time Out pitches in our second most visited attraction in Alberta outside of the Rockies: Canada Olympic Park, visited every year by more than 1.3 million people. This is the site of the tip of the XV Olympic Winter Games in 1988, held in Calgary. It is only 15 minutes from downtown on the west side, toward the Rocky Mountains.
What makes Canada Olympic Park unique is thatcontinue as a multi-purpose competition, training and recreation area that throughout the year for sportsmen and function of the general public. In winter, almost 300,000 skiers and snowboarders visiting the park. It also houses the second largest snow academy in the country, so that the lessons and programs available to people of all ages and abilities.
In summer, Canada Olympic Park turns into mountain biking facilities with more than 25 kilometers of trails, aObstacle course, trials park and facilities for BMX bikers and freeride stunts.
We started with the Olympic Hall of Fame and Museum, which houses a series of exhibitions and Olympic-themed accessories. This is the only Canadian Museum for the Olympic Games in Canada, and is the largest in North America. Exhibits on two floors chronicle participation of Canada Winter Games since their inception in 1924.
An exhibition particularly fascinating are the20 of the 31 Olympic torches from all the way to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. L ', Blood Sweat and Cheers exhibition pays tribute to Canada's Olympic medal winners in Salt Lake City Winter Games of 2002. The flags in the museum and the Plaza represent all the nations that competed in the 1988 Olympics in Calgary appear.
Highlights of the museum is a reproduction of the bobsleigh run by the Jamaican bobsled team in the 1988 Olympics used (the movie "Cool Runnings"was based on this story), an original hockey jacket from 1956 that inspired the clothes of the 1988 Olympic medals for all 12 sports that were held in Calgary, the Olympic Games 1988th
Snowboarders love the Superpipe, opened in 2002 and the tube is unique in its kind in Alberta, with walls that are at least 15 feet high. It 'also used for training Canadian athletes in international competitions and Olympic.
Our guide led us Jocelyne also for the icebox, which is the onlyIndoor track where refrigerated luge, bobsled and skeleton athletes practice the most important push start techniques. All the songs are more cameras and mechanisms of interval timing that the athletes moved to their push-start frame to analyze, at intervals of a fraction of a second picture. Many foreign teams come to this facility to practice their techniques to push-start.
The Ice House features some interesting statistics:
- It 's 143 m long (almostLength of a football field) and four storeys in height
- Uses nine kilometers of steel pipes to cool the three tracks
- Titles are kept at a constant temperature of -2 to -3 degrees Celsius
- A unique monorail system automatically returns the bobsleigh and skeleton sleds to start the button area while continuing
- A video system incorporates standard video and DVD playback, the latest technology.
After our visit to the Ice House we drove theHill behind the Olympic bobsled track with 14 turns and twists, it contains the location where the Jamaican bobsled team its first Olympic appearance and won the hearts of viewers around the world. It 's still used as the seat of a circuit of World Cup bobsled, luge and skeleton.
Our next stop was the tower of 90 m ski jump - among other things, the highest point in Calgary and now, as the weather was clearing, we started to have a great view of the city. Jocelyneexplained that with the techniques of new skis today, with 90 m ski jump no more, since skiers are now able to jump 120 feet and more and there is enough space for them to land safely . However, the glass elevator ride to the observation level of the tower and peering down the hill is a wonderful experience.
Jocelyne explained that Canada Olympic Park is also an archaeological site where remains were found, indicating that these hills was aBuffalo Jump, a place where indigenous tribes used to hunt buffalo.
Many of the Canadian Olympic athlete who has so well during the recent Olympic Games 2006 in Turin, Canada Olympic Park train in reality, and this year the success of Canadian Olympic athletes bodes well for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
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