Here are the wildest, most grueling winter sports you should be watching at the Beijing Olympics. Bobsled Why It’s Hard Pushing the four-man bobsleigh (which is a minimum of 460 pounds) toward the track’s slippery slope takes power and precision. Then you must climb inside and stay absolutely still—except the pilot, who makes tiny steering moves with a rope in each hand. You’re going 90 mph and traverse 16 curves, and after the first 50 meters, there are no more track grooves, meaning you could flip. Who Makes It Look Easy Francesco Friedrich has long been the king of making sure his German teams (two-man and four-man) don’t go off the rails. He won gold in both events in 2018 at PyeongChang. Alpine Combined Skiing Why It’s Hard One needs to master two of the speediest disciplines in winter sports. In the downhill, skiers must travel over a mountain...
- 1/27/2022
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