Ready to go for gold: In October 2023, DHL delivered 21 bobsledsfrom Cologne, Germany, to Yanqing in China. They belonged toathletes from several European nations who needed them for thestart of the IBSF Bobsleigh World Cup. Each sled was about fourmeters long. DHL picked the equipment up from the nationalbobsleigh federations and first brought it to Cologne. The nextstop was Luxembourg, from where DHL flew all the sleds about 5,000miles to Beijing. Two trucks finally took them to the Olympicsliding track in Yanqing. As many athletes trained until the lastminute, the transport was very time critical, leaving no room atall for delays. At the same time, professional bobsleds are finelytuned precision machines, accurately adjusted and calibrated totheir respective pilots. Therefore, they must be handled verycarefully.
