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But at least compared with all the other petrifying Olympic sliding sports, skeleton isnât as fast as youâd think. Matthew Antoine of the United States won bronze in menâs skeleton today with a maximum speed of 129.2 km/hr, or 80.3 mph.
Sledding is the action of riding on a low platform with runners over snow or ice. Sleds can reach instantaneous speeds as high as 40 m/s. There are three different sports of sledding which are bobsledding, luge, and skeleton sledding. Bobsledding and luge are both events of the Winter Olympic Games. Skeleton is supposed to reappear at the Olympics at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bobsledding involves a team of two or four persons riding in the sled. Luge involves either one or two persons, and skeleton involves only one person on the sled. In luge sledding the racer lies flat on his back feet-first after starting in a seated position. In skeleton sledding it's just the opposite.