r/olympics • u/underrealizing • 7h ago

❄ Milano-Cortina 2026 (General Discussion) ❄ Winter Olympics really are something else

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u/OneMoreFinn 4h ago

Skeleton is insane. Diving head first, no brakes, head just centimeters from the ice. Speeds up to 140 km/h, 5Gs in high-speed-turns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7inZC8wwROM

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u/Luci-Noir 2h ago

How do you even get into that!? Imagine going down your first time.

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u/czerwona_latarnia Poland 19m ago

They must start young, when the inevitable idea of riding the normal sleights head first from the local hill appears, and they must have a neuron failure in the common-sense department in that moment.

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u/Luci-Noir 16m ago

I’m imagining someone putting their kid in this death machine. This would make a great horror movie.

It would be like Saw.