Building Beijing's slide and joy

Design of 2022 Games bobsled track gets 'perfect' thumbs-up from testers

Bobsledders, skeleton racers and lugers can expect the slide of their life at the 2022 Winter Olympics after a pretest for Beijing's new sliding track produced "perfect" results.

Amid heavy downpours and steamy summer heat, the National Sliding Center's construction site on Xiaohaituo Mountain in northwestern Beijing's Yanqing district was bustling with activity earlier this week as workers conducted mockup tests on the track.