From: bochluge <bochluge@...>
Subject: [adk-luge] Re: Paramonovo Luge Track
To: adk-luge@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 4:37 PM

--- In adk-luge@yahoogroup s.com, "Rob Doorack" <robdoorack@ ...> wrote:
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> Wow, that thing looks nuts. I predict that the combination of turns in the
> first photo - the 180 degree right that snaps into a left - will be where
> the most problems occur. That reminds me a lot of turns 11 and 12 on the
> 1980 track; if you didn't drive the exit of 11 perfectly you were in a lot
> of trouble. I hope the Russians are going to put some catch fencing along
> the inside of the elevated turns! I guess there's some sort of elevator to
> lift bobsled up to the start.
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> It also looks like the Jr. start comes out of a tower as well. I guess the Russians really love their "Towers" :)
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> From: adk-luge@yahoogroup s.com [mailto:adk-luge@yahoogroup s.com] On Behalf
> Of Jim Murphy
> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 8:22 AM
> To: adk-luge@yahoogroup s.com
> Subject: [adk-luge] Re: Paramonovo Luge Track
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> BTW, here's one...
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> >> http://www.rusem.
> <http://www.rusem. ru/eng/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=234&Itemi
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> --- In adk-luge@yahoogroup <mailto:adk- luge%40yahoogrou ps.com> s.com,
> "bochluge" <bochluge@> wrote:
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> > Has anyone been able to find a website for the new Paramonovo Luge Track?
> I want to see all the specs on the track etc.. I saw the new pictures in the
> latest Luge News Letter; WOW!!!!!! What is it with the Russian's building
> luge tracks that start from a ski jump tower? When Duncan, Kitty, Amy and I
> (the Jr. Team, LOL) went to Leningrad in 1982, we were to race on a track
> that was built out of wood and literally started out of a 120 meter ski jump
> tower. The track continued out over a 300 foot cliff. The track was built on
> telephone poles that gradually became lower as it wound its way down. There
> were no nets so if you crashed and came out of the track you would fall the
> 300 feet. No lie!!!! It was the scariest track, besides IMST, that I have
> ever seen. Anyway, if anyone has found a website, please share....:)
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