There are many fascinating and unusual winter sports. They can be both team, and personal. The bobsled is especially distinguished from personal winter competitions. This sport has amazing staginess. In bobsled of the fraction of a second define the winner and the loser.
The bobsled is obliged by the emergence to the English traveler Wilson Smith – he thought up to connect sledge among themselves the board, it was more convenient for the travel. But the homeland of bobsled consider Switzerland as the Englishman, in this country traveled on special sledge.
The modern bobsled represents races on special ice tracks on which downhill racing is carried out on sledge of the aero dynamic form. Sledge are supplied with control systems: steering and brake. They carry the name - "bean", control of them is exercised by means of front movable runners. During creation of the bean lungs, but at the same time heavy-duty materials are used. "Beans" are the peculiar ice high-speed car in which there are participants of competitions. In it difference of bobsled from skeleton and other types of luge.
"Beans" which use at competitions in modern time - two and four-seater. Enter into crew of the four-seater bean: the helmsman (he is the team captain), pushers and braking.
Ice tracks differ on complexity – it depends on the steepness of descent and turns. Speed of descent can reach 160 km/h, is long descent to 2 kilometers, the bias up to 15 degrees. The one who will pass the track quicker wins the competition.
1888 is considered year of emergence of bobsled. Competitions began to be held since 1908, and since 1924 it became the Olympic sport. Except the Olympic Games the specialized sled sports World Cups in which racers on "beans" compete are held.