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Archive Home > 2010 > February > 19 > The roughest Olympic sport? Skeleton racers play with pain

The roughest Olympic sport? Skeleton racers play with pain

By Tom Withers / The Bulletin
February 19, 2010

WHISTLER, British Columbia — Battered, bruised, bloodied and occasionally broken. Olympic skeleton racers must take their lumps for glory.

In this sport, pain is the norm. Punishment is standard.

“It’s very violent,” U.S. slider Zach Lund said Wednesday. “People don’t realize how hard it is on....

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