The dangers of skeleton racing

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Skeleton racing. The sport where you go

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face first on an ice track at speeds of

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up to 19 m an hour. Danger, adrenaline,

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drama. What speed?

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Coming up, two of Great Big Story's most

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gullible and competitive producers got

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to try it out. He said he was pretty

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good. That's kind of annoying. We

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learned how to properly warm up. This

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bit shouldn't be the hard bit.

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Got to see the best in action. Yeah,

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he's all right. That was pretty good. We

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learned about the origins of the sport

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and why it's called skeleton. It's not

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because when you go down it's so risky

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you might die and become a skeleton.

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All culminating in one race. Be the

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penguin. It's what I practice for.

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A race years and years in the making.

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After two decades of fierce friendship,

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it all came down to this. Stick around

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to see who wins.

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You already know why we're here. So,

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what you might not know is that we're

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the fastest skeleton racer in the world.

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Matt Weston.

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Matt is the twotime skeleton world

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champion among other accolades.

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Matt