Olympics - Pan American Games
Jan. 01, 1963 - The Olympic toboggan-run: in Igls (IGLS) near Innsbruck/Austria was tested at this weekend when the international preolympic toboggan-match took place, - and was found very good. Experts told, this toboggan is the most beautiful imitated toboggan-run of the world. Toboggan, the newest olympic type of sport, needs by the fights a great deal of technical knowledge, courage and hard nerves. The olympic toboggan-run of Igls (our picture shows only a part-view) has 18 curves, therefore 6 turnings and the length is 1063, 76 m. The average-gradient is 10, 7 % - the greatest gradient is 18, 18 %, the lowest gradient is 8, 31
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13242739
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47002642
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5060px x 3664px
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Editorial Use Only - No Property or Model Releases. For any non-editorial use, please contact Mary Evans direct
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Keystone Pictures USA
