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Canada Olympic Park bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track

Bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracksOlympic bobsleigh venuesOlympic luge venuesSports venues in CalgaryVenues of the 1988 Winter Olympics
Kohn 4menbobsled 2005 11 02
Kohn 4menbobsled 2005 11 02

The Canada Olympic Park bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track is a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track located in Calgary, Alberta. Part of Canada Olympic Park, it hosted the bobsleigh and luge competitions at the 1988 Winter Olympics. This track is one of only two of its type in the world to be featured in a non-documentary film when it was part of the 1993 American film Cool Runnings which loosely followed the Jamaican Bobsled Team during their competition in bobsleigh at the 1988 Games (The other was the 1981 British film For Your Eyes Only which included scenes from the bobsleigh track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.).

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Canada Olympic Park bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track
Canada Olympic Road SW, Calgary Greenwood/Greenbriar

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Canada Olympic Road SW 88
T3B 5R5 Calgary, Greenwood/Greenbriar
Alberta, Canada
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