Women allowed to race ice track after 89-year ban overturned

Women will be allowed to race on an iconic toboggan track after an 89-year ban was overturned.

Women had been competing with men on equal terms at the Cresta Run in Switzerland until it was deemed medically dangerous in the 1920s.

However at a St Moritz Tobogganing Club meeting members voted by a two-thirds majority to allow women to ride the Cresta Run again and become members.

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