Editing Cresta Run (section)

== The club ==
The primary purpose of the 1300 member club founded in 1887 is "…the conduct of races and practice on the Cresta Run and the encouragement of tobogganing generally".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cresta-run.com/ride-the-cresta/ride-the-cresta/ |title=Ride the Cresta |access-date=2013-11-13 |archive-date=2018-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221162236/http://www.cresta-run.com/ride-the-cresta/ride-the-cresta/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> While not snobbish, the Cresta Club gathers well-to-do gentlemen and is totally amateur. There are many more luge and bobsled runs world-wide, but only one Cresta devoted to head first sledding. The club asserts that most of the other sledding sports are dominated by professionals and is one of the last bastions of the genuine amateur in sport.

As in many social clubs, members are elected from a list of qualifiers called the Supplementary List. The course is open to anyone who meets the three criteria for joining the list, and need not be English. It has a lot of club rites such as the "Firework", the "Shuttlecock Club" and a dedicated drink, the "Bullshot". The highlight of the Shuttlecock Club is the yearly ''Shuttlecock Dinner''. The dinner is organised by the Shuttlecock President. Prominent presidents have included [[Constantin von Liechtenstein]], [[Gianni Agnelli]], [[Gunther Sachs]], Sir Dudley [[Cunliffe-Owen baronets|Cunliffe-Owen]], [[Rolf Sachs]], [[Harry Ronald Neil Primrose, Lord Dalmeny|Lord Dalmeny]], Graf Luca Marenzi, Marc M. K. Fischer, [[Clifton Wrottesley|Lord Wrottesley]], Jonny Seccombe and Sven Ley.  <!-- preiously stated above: The historic Cresta run was used as a Winter Olympics course twice&mdash; both times during which the winter games were hosted in St. Moritz (1928 and 1948), such doubling being itself a rarity.--> The club sponsors more than thirty races each season which generally last from just before Christmas to late February. The track is opened as soon as it is seasonally possible to do so, and is kept open as long as natural weather conditions permit.