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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.
What is skeleton? Skeleton is not a competition where each athlete is put through an X-ray machine so they can see who has the most bones. That would be so much more boring than what skeleton actually isâmen and women flying down a bobsled track at 90 mph with their face an inch off the ice. Itâs basically just like luge, except instead of laying on their backs, the competitors are positioned face-down, head-first.