STORY – The inauguration of the Winter Olympics, on February 8, 1992, not only marked the memory of the Savoyards: it also marked a lasting transformation of their department.
On this January afternoon, the temperatures remained negative in La Plagne (Savoie), despite a decidedly blue sky and a bright sun, which floods the slopes. Below the station, installed at the bend of a bend lined with fir trees, the Olympic bobsleigh track will only be touched, today as throughout the winter, by the rays of the sun. It is precisely for its location on the northern slope, facilitating the icing of its 1500 meters of descent, that the site was chosen to host the installation of the track, within the framework of the Winter Olympics in Albertville. “For the 1968 Grenoble Olympics, the track was built in Alpe d’Huez in a southern sector, where the sun melted the ice. We did not make this mistake again”, explains Bruno Thomas, former debobsleigh pilot in the French team, who “learned everything” of his sport in the nineteen bends of this descent which has become legendary and which today runs the site…
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