Athletes have already appeared in Olympic villages near the metropolis and are ready to compete during the Games starting on Friday. Some of them have already had the opportunity to test the arenas with the first training sessions on Wednesday.
Unique video of the trip of the three-time Olympic champion in Beijing
This group included tobogganers. On the route of the modern facility in Yanqing, there was, for example, three-time Olympic champion Felix Loch. he did it in 58.750 seconds in one training session and then 58.499 seconds in the second. He had the sixth time in his group in the first round, and the fifth time in the next round.
One of Loch’s earlier runs on the Olympic track was included as a video in one of the entries on Twitter. It’s an amazing video – with a loud, but perfectly conveying the player’s experience, and speed indications – even 129 kilometers per hour, or a heart rate of 171 beats per minute. You can also see him steering the sledge.
Sochowicz is far from training. The Pole returned to the track where he had suffered a serious accident
In the same group as the Loch, he also passed his runs, which, however, fared slightly worse. In the first practice he had the 25th full time, while the second he finished in 26th place. The Pole lost about two seconds to the twice best Austrian, Wolfgang Kindel.
Let us remind you that the Polish tobogganer on which a few weeks ago. It seemed that he would not be able to take part in the Olympics, but Sochowicz returned to the competition and flew to Beijing.
The next toboggan trainings are to take place on Thursday. The Olympic competition in this discipline is scheduled for February 5-6.
Source: Sport
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