Lesson 1
The dangers of skeleton racing
Skeleton racing. The sport where you go face first on an ice track at speeds of up to 19 m an hour. Danger, adrenaline, drama. What speed? Coming up, two of Great Big Story's mo...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
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Trying skeleton racing
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Lesson 2
Meet a skeleton world champion
Matt is just back from Lake Placid, New York. He won his second skeleton world championship by a world record margin. Next on his radar is winning the 2026 Olympic gold medal. Y...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 3
How skeleton racing began
Switzerland, where some adrenaline loving Brits decided that toboggoning wasn't quite enough for them. On the famous icy slopes known as the Crest Run, they went head first down...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 4
Suiting up for the first run
skeleton. Time to suit up. Now looking sexy, it was time to give it a go. Before it was our turn, Matt did a first run where he was timed to the bottom of the hill. Yeah, he's d...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 5
The timed competition
first. You won. You can go first. That was a weird way to say it. In skeleton, you get two runs with a time edited together. It would all come down to this. In the zone. Every m...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 6
Final runs and results
come on. Nice and calm. Relax. You know what to do. You've got a job to do. Be the penguin. It's all like practice. Now he's gone even quicker. It's not looking good for me. Hav...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
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