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sculpture in the world every year. it's rebuilt by hand for the world's best skeleton. pilots and pops let his book can, did. 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 are 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 you take them off what they hold their shades, lock them out, t touched it's emotional 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. whatever. because we bought the fi nicer. push it down the slope blue. there it is. the olympic bob run is 1.7 kilometers long. with the descent of 130 meters. there's all the 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 wolves. only natural track . for most of the year. these bob run experts good as builders and carpenters. there is a one to work on this project. have to love cold weather, otherwise and things get tough. peter, god knows all about that. but my mouth, so you definitely feel the cold in your body of it freezes your no rush, your cheeks feel heavy and speaking is difficult. i know it's very cold, can get pretty brutal here. awesome side, lusty. 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. lauve as the crucial dr. 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 know, 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, artificial snow, soaks up the waters, it becomes heavier, softer, and then easier to work with about about the m as it's all of water. it freezes off of this and can keep taking the strain, kind on him of i thought of i thought and blasted them. that's how the oldest bobsled track in the world is gradually rebuilt, year on year, just a few weeks before the world's best riders, a d to crash down the course. i've read knows every centimeter out the track. he's worked on it since 1981 and owns the sacred note, but containing the rough course. the rest is about judgment, instinct and experience. what he has in space. this is cindy with heart is quite

old. dish. nope, it's the pizza notebook with all the measurements is at least 20 years old. throughout school. i'll to thought 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 was a home when both, there's 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 $1885.00, a group of brits built the 1st ever ice track between krista and somewhat it's the crest to run participants slit downhill headfirst and face down on sleds known as christos full years later, another bridge by the name of wilson smith tied 2 slaves on the board, together with string. and so the 1st bobsled was born. this created

a rivalry between bobsled and krista uses of the crest to run became too tight for the heavier foster bobs. they needed something new. so in 19 o 4, the 1st olympic barbara was built. meanwhile christus letting became known a skeleton. zakowski meat was 12 when she 1st tried the sport. now she's one of switzerland's best skeleton talons. i love f o. they used to be made of wood. now our sleds are all steel and carbon fiber. they used to have a cushion. now this and neoprene layer painted by there's the board to lie on and you can keep yourself steady with your arms. dog is the 1st. they used to have holes on the sides, which people used to kill stable. doubtful. le here once established gal

here. so he radley 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 go, excuse me, that you can hear me. oh, the truck has to be ready in 10 days. then zoe 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. man's each and i'm be still, you can just see the bend that's. 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 her finger. as of this

in lesson cycle, in the last 2 bands before the straight into horseshoe, you can prepare yourself like okay, here's hoshi horshal for farm for me he says 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 done, then you wait, but the corner comes so fast talk to languish honestly so chanel in the straight, you get up to 80 kilometers per hour. i'm 100 mm. so yeah, i've had and the other build is a working on horseshoe corner. now. this is 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 has the dust, can you tell the radius just by looking your say more or less on it's cold, it's not a 100 percent over. ok. it smart when it's i see dog, milan rush,

run for i, you can see it better and i'm on ice ish, fancy misnomer, visible on the right. on my side, you just cannot. 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. the stuff when i'm at the highest point, i know i have to do that, that my mom won't m manase metal cake, binging core. when i see the word out of the corner of my eye, i know i'm high enough for that frequency tough holds. done by then i'll be ok, cool. then proceed. minutes greasy. her. you're more still have to reach a certain height in the corner of us. if you're too low, you'll have problems. when you come out of the corner, i was walking off. my hor, hold on. clips, missouri knows that all t 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 from if you stay mostly with your head and

shoulders. when done, man can, if needed, you can use your feet to it that has the fastest impact on the sledge level. darky of the shipment for conflicts. corners are decisive. athletes can experience 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 lie in less favourable climates and have to be artificially refrigerated. but after it has noticed that the climate here has become more extreme over the last 30

years via fish amada, a thought can be freezing of the one to wind. later, you can have a warm spell of i that i become more and more commerce. it's hard to impress if it never used to happen. i'd say it like this. it used to stay cold throughout the winter. her shocked the cold, the 1st to gone from being to this one. it would be between minus 10 him and minus 15 for the whole season for grab me now. it swings from minus $20.00 to 0. swan stick all that. the change is brutal. these de soto backslash portales. ah mm mm ah, i said peter and co are finished. the track is in use. the team will stay for the rest of the season as the olympic bub ron has to be repaired and treated regularly

as it is as thick forgive. and i've by it's funny because the preparations take up most of your time to buy this new vendor. bolling groove said as though it takes 4 hours of way 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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