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Vancouver Olympic Skeleton 2010

Event Details

Time: February 18, 2010 to February 19, 2010
Location: British Columbia, Canada
City/Town: Vancouver
Website or Map: http://www.vancouver2010.com/…
Event Type: olympics, race, skeleton
Organized By: Vancouver Olympics 2010
Latest Activity: Oct. 30, 2009

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Event Description

Skeleton is headfirst, no brakes, sliding down the hard-packed ice at 80mph!

While it has only been an Olympic sport for a few years, the sport itself has ancestry in sledding and tobogganing from over 100 years ago.

The Vancouver Olympics will feature Skeleton sliders on February 18th and 19th, which leads right up to the big Airboarding weekend in Switzerland and Norway! (Airboarding is a descendant of Skeleton.)

There are two individual skeleton events in the Olympic Games: one for men and one for women. Both events consist of four heats held over two days, timed electronically to 0.01 seconds. The individual with the lowest combined time wins.

Learn more about the sport of Skeleton and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics on the official website.

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