Archives for January 2010

Skeleton sliders do it at 140kmh, under extreme G-forces, with their faces inches from diamond-hard ice.

They are scientific, analytical, hard-nosed and talk a lot about things like physics. It's not just careering down a track for thrills and giggles. So they aren't the sort of people given to whingeing.

But they have good reason to ahead of the Winter Olympics. The Canadian team have monopolised the Whistler track, closing it to other nations, and will have had 10 times as many practice runs as anyone else by the time competition starts.

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Spot the odd one out: Rio de Janeiro, Auckland, Sardinia, Hong Kong and Weymouth.

Despite what you might be thinking, there isn't one. Weymouth might not be quite up with the others in the glamour stakes, but all are on the racing calendar of Britain's two-time Olympic champion Iain Percy this year.

Because it's the venue for sailing at the 2012 Olympics, Weymouth is arguably the most important but Percy and his Star crew-mate Andrew "Bart" Simpson are currently in Rio - at the venue that will be used for the 2016 Games - to try to add the Star world title to the Olympic crown they won in Beijing.

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