bobsled

While all share the commonality of being unconventional competitors in a space where they’re considered to be a rarity, bobsledding and ski jumping originated as European sports.

The Swedish bid centered on Stockholm planned to use a bobsled track across the Baltic Sea in Latvia.

The British prince did two runs on one of the world’s fastest bobsled tracks, which also hosts skeleton races.

Organizers said that as well as the cost of the much-debated bobsled track in Cortina and other construction work, the mountains were being destroyed as hundreds of trees were being cut down.

The sleepy socialist town built new alpine and Nordic ski trails, ski jumps, bobsled and luge runs, a skating rink, dozens of apartment blocks and numerous hotels.