Sled / Luge / Skeleton
Cresta Run's 1885 first toboggan track through Olympic luge / skeleton, Red Bull Crashed Ice, urban downhill events.
Part of Extreme Sports
3 moments in this segment.
- — Cresta Run — first toboggan track. The Cresta Run in St Moritz opens — the first dedicated toboggan racing track. Skeleton racing (head-first) emerges directly from it.
- — Luge enters the Olympics. Luge becomes an Olympic medal sport at the 1964 Innsbruck Games — top speeds over 140 km/h with no brakes or steering.
- — Red Bull Crashed Ice founded. Red Bull Crashed Ice launches as ice cross downhill — speed skaters racing four-wide down an urban ice track with jumps. Stockholm 2001 hosts the first.
