Sochi Bobsled Track Top Class - Loch

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Vancouver Olympic luge champion Felix Loch has every confidence the Sochi bobsled track will become a regular world championship venue after the 2014 Winter Games.

MOSCOW, November 14 (R-Sport) - Vancouver Olympic luge champion Felix Loch has every confidence the Sochi bobsled track will become a regular world championship venue after the 2014 Winter Games.

The international luge season kicked off Monday with a training week in Sochi, which welcomed more than 130 lugers from 26 countries to the Sliding Center Sanki in the Caucasus mountains.

"I'm sure that after the Olympics the track will be an annual venue for World Cups, and perhaps every two or three years, the world championships," said Loch, a three-time world champion, in comments to the Sochi 2014 website.

"The track has everything you need for a successful event. The finish zone is very spacious; there is enough space not just for the teams, but for the luges themselves. The athletes like it here and I'm sure we'll be back here again and again."

Loch's comments follow similar remarks from two-time Olympic champion Italian luger Armin Zoggeler, who also praised the "top-level organization."

Sochi will also host the ninth and final stage of the World Cup in February as a major test event for the Olympics.

The newly built bobsled track is the world's longest at 1.8 kilometers, and had its first test event in March at the Russian championships.

Vancouver bronze medalist Alexander Tretiakov winning the domestic Russian Cup in the skeleton last month, the first test event of the 2012-13 season.

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