Altenberg (pps) At a cost of 1.4 million Euros, the bobsleigh and luge track in Altenberg will be made fit for the 43rd World Championships of the International Luge Federation (FIL). According to information from the ministry of culture of the German federal state of Saxony, the federal ministry of the interior will subsidize the modification and refurbishment of the track with more than 600,000 Euros.
For this investment, about 406,000.- Euros had already been planned in Saxony’s budget. Altogether, the cost of the modernization of the refrigeration and electronic systems and of the buildings at the women’s and junior start, will amount to 1.4 million Euros. The remaining sum must be covered by the administrative district of “Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge” as the responsible body for the track.
„This investment is above all a prerequisite for the successful staging of the 2012 World Championships and all following competitions. I am therefore very happy about the approval by the Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble. With this, Altenberg will remain an internationally competitive sports facility and a venue of top-class international events“, explained Saxony’s minister of culture Roland Wöller.
Altenberg has been staging World Cups in bobsleigh, skeleton and luge on a regular basis, lastly as host of the 2007 FIBT World Championships in bobsleigh and skeleton.
