Meet a skeleton world champion

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accolades.

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Matt is just back from Lake Placid, New

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York. He won his second skeleton world

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championship by a world record margin.

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Next on his radar is winning the 2026

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Olympic gold medal. Yes. But first, he's

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got some new competition. Us. Did you

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make these lists? Nah, these are just

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stats I found online.

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So, Matt, where are we? Well, right now

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we're in Bath. We're on what we call the

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push track, which is the only place in

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the country where we can train to do

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skeleton. First off, we've got to warm

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up. Get those big muscles of yours

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ready.

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Behind me, you should look exactly the

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same. Yep. The resemblance is uncanny.

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We're struggling already, which is

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obviously a good sign. I do this every

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day, mate. That's very high.

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Don't get injured in the warmup. Don't

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get injured in the warm up. Yeah, I

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know. Oh dear.

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Nice. We're going to get into some

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pushing and get you guys feeling what

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it's like to actually be a skeleton

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athlete, but going to need to look the

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part. And I've got you two some

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beautiful presents. Go and put these bad

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boys on. All right. But first, what even

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is skeleton and where did it come from?

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Well, we need to rewind back to the

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1800s and traveled to Samurit,

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Switzerland, where some