August 19th, 2011
Slip Sliding Away
When Canada Olympic Park’s ice house melts in the summer, bobsleigh drivers attach wheels to their wagons and roll their way down the concrete track.
This year COP shares the downhill thrill usually reserved for Olympians by allowing groups of four to ride the summer bobsleigh. A professional driver steers the sleigh as it bobs and banks at speeds up to 100-kilometres-per-hour through 14 turns before coming to a screeching halt at the bottom of the hill 60 seconds later.
If only the Jamaican bobsleigh team had this hot track to practice on. Cool Runnings would have been a much different movie. —Jaelyn Molyneux
$69 per person at Winsport Canada’s Canada Olympic Park, 88 Olympic Rd. SW, Calgary, 403-247-5452, www.winsportcanada.ca
