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Winter sports are a good way to get out and be active in the great outdoors. But it's important to consider humans' effects on the natural environment when they do those sports. One goal of the Nagano Games is coexistence with nature, and many of the facilities to be used for the events have been designed with this in mind.

Question: The course for the bobsleigh and luge events was designed to follow the natural shape of the mountain beneath it as much as possible. This has made it a very unusual course. What about this course sets it apart from other sled tracks around the world?

  1. It's extremely steep
  2. It goes uphill in two places
  3. Competitors do two laps of the same course
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