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The '''Eugenio Monti Olympic Track''' ({{
==History==
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The track played a key role in improving bobsleigh safety when [[West Germany]]'s [[Toni Pensperger]] was killed during the four-man event at the [[FIBT World Championships 1966|1966 World Championships]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090302083812/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835216,00.html "The Deadly Zig-Zag"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. March 4, 1966. (Pensperger's death is mentioned.)</ref> Because of Pensperger's death, the world championships did not take place at the track until safety improvements were made satisfactory to the [[Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing]] (FIBT). This was not until [[FIBT World Championships 1981|1981]], though the death of American bobsledder [[James Morgan (bobsled)|James Morgan]] during the four-man event on February 8 led to track officials shortening the course to its current configuration.<ref>[http://www.bunksplace.com/nitro.html Bunksplace.com article on the Morgan death during the 1981 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.] - Accessed January 21, 2008.</ref> The week following the 1981 championships, the track was filmed as part of the movie ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]''; one of the stuntmen involved, Paolo Rigon, was killed during the first day of filming.<ref>[[John Morgan (broadcaster)|Morgan, John]]. "Re:Cortina track and For Your Eyes Only" E-mail to Chris Miller. May 4, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/movies/fyeo_production.php3?t=fueo&s=fyeo ''For Your Eyes Only'' production notes featuring the Cortina track]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
By [[FIBT World Championships 1989|1989]] the track was deemed safe enough by the FIBT to host another world championship.<ref name=two-man /> Following the death of Eugenio Monti in 2003, the Olympic Bobrun Cortina was renamed the Eugenio Monti Track ({{
On October 16, 2023, it was reported that the track will not be rebuilt to host the [[2026 Winter Olympics]], which will be hosted by Cortina D'Ampezzo, along with Milan, as no qualifying construction bids were submitted.<ref>{{cite web|title=IOC pushes back again on Italy's $90M plan to rebuild bobsled track for 2026 Winter Olympics|url=https://apnews.com/article/bobsled-track-milan-cortina-2026-olympics-ioc-0df2e6d9442ed3406ee1b455d24cba18 |access-date=June 19, 2024|date=January 31, 2024|website=APnews.com}}</ref> The Organizing Committee, along with the IOC and the [[International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation]] have studied possibilities to hold the event in another place. Officials are still trying to rebuild the Monti track, but officials have added [[Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run]] as a backup in Lake Placid, New York.
==Track statistics==
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