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the biggest ice sculpture in the world. every year. it's rebuilt by hand for the world's best skeleton pilots and pops let is. kennedy, everyone knows bob sledge on it. if anyone asks me what it is, i just showed them a video. since i did, they say things like, wow, that must be dangerous. to hear focus fairly but sled and skeleton both started in fact, but it's so how would they invented and how do you build a bob run in 3 weeks despite freezing temperatures? this case is the buckle. yes it got was minus 38 degrees. if your trousers get wet, they freeze up. when i take him off, what they hold their shades sock them a c o c touched it normal miramar! because the cold doesn't bother me. summer affects me more with

the small town of something or it's in the swiss alps is a winters both paradise for people with money, lots of money, luxury hotels, brands and restaurants abound. all sorts of events take place to keep the rich and famous entertained. a frozen lake becomes an arena for everything from polo to crickets, and even horse racing. but summer, it was also the birthplace of bob sledding and skeleton, and they require a top class track. thank you for your money per kilometer more slowly because we bought the fi nicer. push it down. the slope flew there it is. the olympic bob run is 1.7 kilometers long, with the descent of one have been centimeters. those other numbers. and here's the

real thing. every year in late november 15 men can't isn't loretta from italian south to rolled to build the walls. only natural track for most of the year. these bob run experts split as builders and carpenters. there is a one to work on this project, have to love cold weather, otherwise than things get tough. peter gum knows all about that. but my mouth, so you definitely feel the cold in your body. it freezes your no rush, your cheeks feel heavy and speaking is difficult. i know it's very cold, can get pretty brutal here on site with leslie, she'll get out of my i'm making the wall of the overhang above the curve so that the bumps letters aren't in danger of flying off the track on the corner due to the high speeds lousy. how's the crawford often hawkish really cut out a complete building? a natural track is a work of art for the perfect club run,

the snow is made artificially with a snow gun. although it's created without chemicals. it's mixed with water until it achieves a pudding like consistency. they're not to wash their boot. a natural said no wouldn't work as well as material for the tract. so because it's too soft and can't take as much pressure or the same load, the fuss of cushioning, the artificial snow soaks up the waters, it becomes heavier, softer, and then easier to work with about about the m, as in all of water. it freezes fossil. this and can keep taking the strain kind on him of i thought of i thought and blasted them. that's how the oldest bob sled track in the world is gradually rebuilt, year on year, just a few weeks before the world's best right is a d to crash down the course. i've read knows every centimeter off the track. he's worked on it since 1981 and owns the sacred note, but containing the rough calls, the rest is about judgment,

instinct and experience, which he has in spades pursued with hard. it is quite old dish. nope. it's the pizza notebook with all the measurements is at least 20 years old. throw on your altered or hallmark. we have various measuring the points. for example, the red blood suck it 2nd, the junction box doors to shore. caution it onto the hydrant is further forward. don't go home, right? so we have 5 measuring points in the portal. go corner. what's the home when both that some leeway it doesn't have to be down to the centimeter. but if you got the measurements, it makes life easier throughout the life work. oh, so how did all this begin? in 1885, a group of brits built the 1st ever ice track between krista and somewhat it's the crest to run. participants flit downhill headfirst and faced down on sleds known as christos, full years later, another bridge by the name of wilson smith tied to slaves and

a board together with string. and so the 1st bobsled was born. this created a rivalry between bobsled and krista uses of the press to run became too tight for the heavier foster bobs. they needed something new. ah. so in 19 o 4, the 1st olympic barbara was built. meanwhile, crest us letting became known a skeleton soccer sh meat was 12 when she 1st tried the sport. now she's one of switzerland's best skeleton talents. i love as well. oh, they used to be made of wood. now our sleds are all steel and carbon, but they used to have a cushion. now there's a neoprene layer you painted by there's the board to lie on and you can keep yourself steady with your mrs. douglas to face these to have holes on the sides, which people use to keep stable. doubtful le, here months of stuff is kalu.

yes. are you ready? stunning. so i will, i'll be going down this in about 2 weeks. and you can't really see it yet. see, but i'm sure they'll get it done over those clean dish on him. so they won't excuse me. that you don't hear me. oh, the truck has to be ready in 10 days. then i will be able to test it out. she lives with her family practically next to the run. so she's aware of all the hard work that goes into putting it together. men's each and i'm business. you can just see the bend. nice. that's the 1st corner. cool fit. oh, there are 14 corners on the track. many have imaginative names like snake, horner, telephone corner, or devils die corner. who's on the decisive stretch comes about

a 3rd of the way down horseshoe corner when she once broke a finger of of this in. let's see psycho in the last 2 benz before the straight into horseshoe. you can prepare yourself like okay, his whole shape or shore for fun for me. he says, got, it's very important to me because i respect how difficult it is actually to make the slide knows when you're scared, come, then you can end up sliding them. then you try to find your position again and dump any weight that the corner comes. so fast on the lying dish, honestly so chanel in the strait, you get up to 80 kilometers per hour. i'm 100. mm. so yeah, i played and the other build is a working on horseshoe corner. now. think i lose co account. wait. oh, hopefully it'll work out. yeah, i mean, does you have to build it for me for the world. cough for the van. since the dust can you tell the radius just by looking no say more or less on it's cool. it's not a 100 percent or we're open it smart when it's i see

a dog milan rush run for i you can see it better and i'm on eyes ish, fancy misnomer. visible on the road one on my side. and you can, or you know exactly what you have to do in the corners and you feel it too high. when i go into a corner, i know i have to do this stuff. when i'm at the highest point, i know i have to do that. and then my columbia stuff muscle won't em manuel. see metal cake pinion core. when i see the word out of the corner of my eye, i know i'm high enough for doubt. frequency thought holds done by then i'll be ok or then proceed. minutes greasy. her. you're more still have to reach a certain height in the corner or fast. if you're too low, you'll have problems when you come out of the corners back know from are all gone. groups mazacco knows that all to well. right. so, so exactly. i know i've tested that theory out. unlike a bobsled, a skeleton sled has no steering all brakes. pilots navigate with their bodies at

130 kilometers per hour. i'm listening for me. you stay mostly with your head and shoulders. when done, man can't. if needed, you can use your feet to it that has the fastest impact on the sledge. lima darky of 39 for conflicts. corners are decisive. athletes can experienced g force of more than 5 times they body weight the same as formula one drivers. except here, their faces, artist centimeters away from an ice track. the ice channel always looks the same, but there are subtle changes. temperature affects the descent. sometimes it's slower, meaning pilots have to change their approach to corners. this marks the zant marita olympic bob run out from other tracks in europe, north america and japan, which lion is favourable climates and have to be artificially refrigerated, what athlete has noticed that the climate here has become more extreme over the

last 30 years? via tish amada, a thought can be freezing of the one to wait lighter. you can have a warm spell of i that's becoming more and more calm as a chart to him. or if it never used to happen, hopefully it like this. it used to stay cold throughout the winter, her shot, the cold, the 1st gone to being to the so it would be between minus 10 and him and minus 15 for the whole season, forgot me now. it swings from minus $20.00 to 0. swan to call the change is brutal these de soto backslash portales. ah mm mm ah, i'm afraid peter and co are finished. the track is in use. the team will stay for

the rest of the season as the olympic bob run has to be repaired and treated regularly as it is a 6 foot 11 out of by it's funny because the preparations take up most of your time to buy this and even the balling gruesome as though it takes 4 hours of work before you can do it, run for the fun cause with things like preparing the runners and tightening screws, it takes forever a all that just to spend 2 minutes going down the track with in march the season is over, the weather gets warmer and the truck simply disappears until winter returns. and the building work starts the fresh

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