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Bobsledding is one of the most iconic sports of the Winter Olympics, but people tend to have lots of questions about it. For instance, how fast do bobsleds go? How do you win at bobsledding? Or even...what is bobsledding?

Many of the questions arise because people just aren't as familiar with the ins and outs of bobsledding-which is also sometimes called bobsleigh-since fewer people tend to grow up bobsledding than playing other sports, like track, basketball, or softball. After all, with its high speeds among icy, twisty turns, it's not typically a sport you'd see on a high school roster.

But bobsledding certainly is on the Olympic schedule, and it's been a mainstay there. The high-speed sleigh rides have been included in every Olympics except for one-the 1960 Squaw Valley Games-since it debuted in 1924. Since then, the sport has continued to evolve, and in 2002, a two-woman's team was added to the program in Salt Lake City. This year at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, there will be four separate bobsled events: two-man, two-woman, four-man, and monobob for women-the last one being a brand-new event for the 2022 Games.

Keep reading for answers to all your questions on bobsledding, especially as it relates to the 2022 Winter Games!

What is bobsledding?

Bobsledding is the sport of sliding down an ice-covered, twisting incline on a high-sided sled.

There are competitive categories for four-person, two-person, and one-person sleds.

According to NPR, both speed and agility are vital for bobsledders. The athletes' speed really comes in at the beginning, when they push the heavy sled-a two-woman sled weighs at least 284 pounds-down the first 50 meters of the course. Then comes the agility part: The athletes have to cleanly jump into the sled as it hurtles down the track. This can get even trickier in the events with two or four athletes.

How fast do bobsleds go?

Bobsleds are fast. According to the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, the four-man bobsled can travel at speeds of up to 93 miles per hour, and a monobob can go 75 miles per hour. All while navigating an icy, twisty track!

How do you win at bobsledding?

Bobsledding is a timed sport. The track fits one team at a time, so teams take turns with their runs, and their times are then compared to determine the winner. Race times are clocked from an aggregate of four separate runs known as heats. Whichever team has the quickest time wins. Competition tends to be really close, so race times are measured in hundredths of a second.

What's the difference between bobsledding, luge, and skeleton?

Bobsled, luge, and skeleton are all categorized as sliding sports in the Olympic program, and as such, they have some similarities: The general goal of each sport is to slide down the track as quickly as possible. But there are some important differences between bobsled, luge, and skeleton. For one, each sport features a different type of sled, sliding style, and number of athletes inside the sled. Bobsled is typically a team sport (though this year marks the debut of the women's monobob), in which bobsledders navigate a high-sided sled from a seated position after getting a running start. In luge, athletes start from a seated position on the sled and ride flat on their back with their feet first. In skeleton, athletes begin their run from a standing start before assuming a head-first prone position.

How long has bobsledding been an Olympic sport?

Bobsled made its Olympic debut in 1924 with the four-man event at the Winter Games in Chamonix, France. The two-man event was added to the Olympic program at the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid, and the two-woman event joined the program at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The women's monobob will make its Olympic debut at the Beijing Games this year.

How many medals in bobsledding has Team USA won?

The United States has won 25 medals in bobsled going into the Beijing Games, behind Switzerland (31) and tied with Germany (25). However, looking solely at gold medals, Germany comes out on top with 13.

Does Jamaica have a bobsled team?

So, does Jamaica have a bobsled team in real life? ( Cool Runnings fans, we see you.) Jamaica does in fact have a bobsled team-the 1993 Disney film was based on the true story of the Jamaican national team's debut at the 1988 Winter Olympics. According to the International Olympic Committee, the account was heavily fictionalized, although the team actually did crash in the Games.

Since then, the Jamaican bobsledding team has competed in six Winter Games. If you have heard more about the film again lately, that's because Team Jamaica qualified a four-man sled to the Olympics for the first time in 24 years. They'll also compete at the Beijing Games in two-man and women's monobob-and are looking to come out with performances worthy of their own real-life movie montage.
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After sharing the spotlight with legendary teammates Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller during her two previous Olympics appearances, this year Mikaela Shiffrin has the Alpine skiing stage all to herself.

The three-time Olympic medalist (two gold) and winningest World Cup slalom skier of all time heads to Beijing at the peak of her powers at 26 years old, with a target to compete for the first time in all five individual Olympic events. The networks of NBC and Peacock will have LIVE coverage every time Shiffrin steps up to the starting gate.

The Colorado native's ability, combined with such volume of opportunity, gives her the potential to make some serious history if things go her way in Beijing. Two gold medals would tie her for the most ever by an Olympic Alpine skier, while three would put her in a league all her own.

SEE MORE: PyeongChang 2018: Mikaela Shiffrin wins giant slalom gold

Her strongest events remain the most technical ones, specifically slalom and giant slalom. However, she faces capable rivals in both: Slovakia's Petra Vlhova has beaten Shiffrin in four out of six World Cup slalom races this season, while Sweden's Sara Hector has done so three out of five times in giant slalom.

Shiffrin is also a favorite in the combined event, where she took home silver four years ago. Should she indeed go through with competing in the speed events of downhill and super-G, she would likely be considered an outside contender for the podium, though she does own seven career international victories between the two disciplines.

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Saturday's events included snowboarding, cross-country skiing, curling, luge, hockey and much more.

BEIJING, China - The 2022 Winter Olympic games are in full swing following Friday's Opening Ceremony and some early round action. Saturday was the first full day of events as athletes compete in Beijing.

Saturday's events included snowboarding, cross-country skiing, curling, luge, hockey and much more.

Here's a look at some of the top moments on Saturday:

American Jamie Anderson rode the "shred shed" roof, landed a perfect frontside 720, hit a big drifting backside 540 and closed with a cab 720 on her first run of snowboard slopestyle qualifying to advance to the final.

USA's Nick Page, 19, made the moguls super final at his first Olympics and took fifth place.

Goalie Nicole Hensley and forward Hilary Knight put together strong performances for the U.S. en rout to an impressive 5-0 win over the ROC to stay unbeaten at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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Saturday's events included snowboarding, cross-country skiing, curling, luge, hockey and much more. BEIJING, China - The 2022 Winter Olympic games are in full swing following Friday's Opening Ceremony and some early round action. Saturday was the first full day of events as athletes compete in Beijing.

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Beijing Olympics 2022: Canada soars to 1st-ever medal in ski jumping; snags gold in snowboarding

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BEIJING — American snowboarder Julia Marino took silver in the women's snowboard slopestyle final at China's Genting Snow Park H&S Stadium on Sunday. The second-place finish netted the U.S. its first medal during the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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Karen Chen!!!

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Did you know, women’s ice hockey was introduced as an Olympic sport in 1998 at the Nagano Games. Ten women's hockey teams will compete in the 2022 Beijing Olympics. In 1980, the U.S women's hockey team won against Russia for the gold medal! (Made by: Marissa Colon)

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Woman figure skating!

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Sonja Henie considered the greatest figure skater in the history of the sport! She has won 10 consecutive world titles, those combined championships are most than any female!
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Nathen Chen is one of the worlds best figure skaters. He is a three time World champion, a 2022 Olympic silver medalist and a 2018 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, 2017 Four Continents champion, a three time Grand Prix Final champion, and a six time U.s national champion.

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The reason I chose figure skating is because of an anime I watched. It is called Yuri on ice its about ice skating and I'm also good at skating so I thought it would be a good choice for me. I find ice skating really inspiring and beautiful because it takes hard work and talent. I'm very inspired by this masterpiece called ice skating. -Ava Garcia

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Skier Jessie Diggins made history at the Winter Olympics in Beijing by becoming the first American woman to win an individual medal in cross-country skiing.

On Tuesday night, the 30-year-old skier won a bronze medal in the women's free sprint out of the 91 competitors who started the race.

Sweden's Maja Dahlqvist won the silver medal and Jonna Sundling took gold.

Diggins, back for her third Olympics, landed in sixth place four days ago at during the 15K race that was plagued by harsh weather conditions. Primed with experience and becoming familiar with the course, led her to winning another piece of medal to add to her massive collection.
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She is the most decorated American cross-country skier in world championship history and won Olympic gold during a team event at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018.

Diggins won the Tour de Ski in 2021, making her the first U.S. skier to take the title.

She previously told USA TODAY that giving it her all emotionally and physically and leaving nothing on the table will be enough for her.
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"If I can do all those things, and cross that finish line and look back and go, that was it. That was my best effort and that was everything I had, then that will be success," Diggins said.

Here are photos of her historic win at the Winter Olympics:

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Skier Jessie Diggins made history at the Winter Olympics in Beijing by becoming the first American woman to win an individual medal in cross-country skiing. On Tuesday night, the 30-year-old skier won a bronze medal in the women's free sprint out of the 91 competitors who started the race.

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Lindsey Jacobellis Just won the USA a Gold Medal!

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Lindsey Jacobellis Just won the USA a Gold Medal!

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Just today Lindsey Jacobellis won a gold medal for the USA! And even more surprising, This is only her fifth Olympic game! She also won a silver medal in 2006. She competes in snowboarding competitions. As a former snowboarder, I think that she is so cool!

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Many bobsledding runs are at least 1,500 meters long with around 15 turns throughout the course. This ideal track is considered and included in major bobsledding competitions such as the Olympics. Bobsled tracks are also used for skeleton and luge, two other fast-paced Olympic Sports

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Speed skating giant, Eric Heiden (Madison, Wisconsin) produced the greatest single feat in Winter Olympic history when he won all five events at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. -MELANIE

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fun fact bobsledding is a sport in the Olympics

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fun fact bobsledding is a sport in the Olympics

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but actually fun fact bobsledding was introduced to the Olympics in 1932 and was originated in St. Moritz Switzerland in 1914

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Snowboarder Max Parrot won the Gold Medal for Canada in the Beijing 2022 Olympics!

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Max Parrot, 1st GOLD MEDAL for Canada | Snowboard Slopestyle | Beijing 2022 Olympics

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The sport was originated (as recorded) in 1808 in Norway when a Danish-Norwegian lieutenant Olaf Rye launched himself on the skis and covered a distance of 9.5m in the air to show the courage to his fellow soldiers. - MELANIEE

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The team that won the bobsleigh championship was Switzerland

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The team that won the bobsleigh championship was Switzerland

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This is the video we watched in Restorative Circle a few weeks ago... anyone following what's going on at the Olympics with these ladies?

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Speed Skater Gives Up Spot In 2022 Olympics For Fellow Teammate And Friend

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Bobsledding is a winter sport that consists on sledding down narrow , twisted banks of ice in a gravity powered sleigh.

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They first captured hearts in Calgary at the 1988 Winter Olympics as the underdogs with fierce dedication and drive to conquer what may have seemed like an impossible dream.

The Jamaican four-man bobsled team is back at the Olympics for the first time in 24 years.

"You bring that Jamaican flare to the games and that makes it a pretty cool event," said Devon Harris, a member of the 1988 debut team.

"I just encourage them to enjoy the moment. It's one of those rare moments very few of us actually get to experience in life," he said from his home just outside New York City.

Harris said he's been texting with some of his former teammates, admitting while it's been a long time since he sat in a sled, there's always excitement when the Olympic season rolls around.

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This is the first time in almost 20 years that Calgary's Lacelles Brown won't be competing at a winter Olympic Games in bobsled.

Brown has represented Jamaica and Canada. He said he'll be watching both teams closely and is very proud Jamaica is back on the track.

"It's about time. I think Jamaica has some really good athletes and putting it together and getting them back on track, it's nice to see," said Brown.

"If the Jamaican boys finish in the top 10, that's an accomplishment... I'm just being realistic. If the Canadian boys finish in the top five, I know they can medal. No pressure on them but I want them to medal," said Brown.

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Jamaica's historic run in Calgary as the first-ever bobsled team from the island nation to compete has become iconic. Despite a horrible crash that flipped them upside down soaring down the track, they became heroes at the Games for pushing on.

"As we went over, I remember thinking: 'Wow, we are over. How embarrassing,' that was my thought... It didn't feel as bad as it looked," recalled Hariss.

"If you can imagine failing in front of the entire world and totally embarrassed your country, and here are those people offering that emotional support, it means a lot. It still means a lot," said Harris, who said he holds a very special place for Calgarians in his heart.

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The legacy and has stuck with the team through the decades.

Harris said it's been only recently he's really understood the impact his original team made on the world.

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"This thing was way bigger than just four guys from Jamaica trying to bobsled. It was saying to people all over the world who had dreams that they thought maybe scary or ridiculous, it gave them permission to go and pursue those dreams."

"They'll never be an '88 team," Harris added. "I think we were special in just the way we embraced the challenge. It was hard. It had never been done before. We put the shoulder to the wheels and went."

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They first captured hearts in Calgary at the 1988 Winter Olympics as the underdogs with fierce dedication and drive to conquer what may have seemed like an impossible dream. The Jamaican four-man bobsled team is back at the Olympics for the first time in 24 years.

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Jessie Diggins won a first ever individual sprint medal for the USA!

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The word “ski” originates from the Old Norse word “skio,” meaning a split piece of wood.

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Olympic Dutch speed skater Iren Schouten set another record in her 5,000-meter speedskating victory.

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This year for the 2022 Olympics Chen Nathan won a gold metal for is dance moves on the ice. :)
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Chloe Kim is an American snow boarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist.

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Curling earned the nickname “The Roaring Game” because of the rumbling sound a curling stone makes when it's delivered and how it glides across rough ice.

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This year, the US took the bronze in speed skating team pursuit!!

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Ski jumpers launch themselves from hills 90 and 120 meters high! At the 2002 Olympics, the Ski Jump competition is located at 7,350 feet high in Utah Olympic Park! A maximum of 105 ski jumping athletes - 65 men and 40 women.
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US speed skater Erin Jackson won the women's 500m gold medal at the Winter Olympics in a time of 37.04 on Sunday.

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The Norwegians repeated as the Olympic gold medalists in the men's team pursuit speed skating event on Tuesday, while the United States captured the bronze medal.

Norway bested the ROC head-to-head in the final round by 2.38 seconds to become the first country to win multiple gold medals in the men's team pursuit, which made its Olympic debut in 2006.

The Norwegian team of Hallgeir Engebraaten, Sverre Lunde Pedersen and Peder Kongshaug were perfectly synchronized early in the final race. They jumped out to a two-second lead five laps in with three remaining and were never threatened.

"It means everything," Pederson told the media. "I had a hard summer with almost no training (after a bike crash). To be here with a gold medal, it's hard to describe. (ROC) beat us pretty well in the semifinal. Our plan was to go for it and it worked. We skated faster in the final."

Norway, the ROC and the U.S. utilized the strategy of keeping one skater in front for the whole race, as opposed to the more traditional action of alternating leaders.

The U.S. unit of Casey Dawson, Emery Lehman, and Joey Mantia blew away the Netherlands by 2.81 seconds in the Final B to earn America its first men's team pursuit medal since 2010.

All four Americans, including Ethan Cepuran who raced in the semifinals,obtained their first career Olympic medals. Mantia called it a weight off his shoulders, as he is competing in his third Winter Olympics at 36.

"I feel like now I can just breathe," Mantia said. "I can walk away and say, 'OK, we are Olympic medalists.' The Olympics is such an amplifier ... It creates this big gap between who's on and who's not."

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The Norwegians repeated as the Olympic gold medalists in the men's team pursuit speed skating event on Tuesday, while the United States captured the bronze medal. Norway bested the ROC head-to-head in the final round by 2.38 seconds to become the first country to win multiple gold medals in the men's team pursuit, which made its Olympic debut in 2006.

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Where is ice hockey most popular? Ice hockey is immensely popular in Canada, where it is the national winter sport and arguably the country's most popular game. Hockey is also popular in the United States and in European countries such as Russia, Sweden, and Finland.

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2022 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team Roster Announcement

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Great Britain will finally win a Winter Olympic medal at Beijing 2022 after the men's curling team reached the gold medal match with an 8-4 victory over the USA.

Bruce Mouat's quartet got the better of a tense and cagey encounter against the Americans, sealing the win, and at least a silver medal, in the 10th and final end. Team GB will take on Sweden in the final on Saturday.

Great Britain's women's team are also in the running for a medal after squeezing through to the semi-finals with a 9-4 win over the Russian Olympic Committee team in their final group match.

Eve Muirhead's team needed to win and hope two other results went their way in order to secure progression to the last four. Wins for Sweden, who overcame Korea in the last match of the session to finish, and Canada took the last two places down to the draw-shot challenge - an average of the accuracy of each team's last stone draw in every match - and saw Team GB secure third place ahead of Japan, with Canada eliminated. Muirhead's team will face second-placed Sweden in the semi-finals on Friday.

Eve Muirhead of Great Britain competes during the game against the Russian Olympic Committee. Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

"We had to win that game today and that was the first thing we went out there to do," Muirhead told BBC Sport. "We fought our hearts out, nothing was in our control apart from our own game. Of course, we maybe had one eye on the other games but I see we managed to get a semi-final spot from a centimetre on the draw shot."

Muirhead reached the last four in Pyeongchang four years ago but is aiming for her team, as well as the men, to go further this time. "I was in this position in 2018 as well, in the semi-final, and I want to do one better," she added. "I'm very proud of this team, we have got a great chance out there, as a team we have played well all week.

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"I can't wait to get out there tomorrow night and of course we will be supporting the boys tonight in their semi-final and lets hope we can all do Great Britain proud."

Britain's men's team take on the United States in the semi-finals later on Thursday.

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Great Britain will finally win a Winter Olympic medal at Beijing 2022 after the men's curling team reached the gold medal match with an 8-4 victory over the USA. Bruce Mouat's quartet got the better of a tense and cagey encounter against the Americans, sealing the win, and at least a silver medal, in the 10th and final end.

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Feb 15, 2022

Tom HamiltonSenior Writer

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* Joined ESPN in 2011
* Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours
* Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018

If you're the superstitious type, you've likely taken notice of Curve 13 of the Flying Dragon Course in Beijing. It's the one that caused all sorts of difficulty for the luge events and today it ended the Olympic medal hopes of Great Britain's two-man bobsled.

While Curve 9 proved to be the troublesome bend at Pyeongchang 2018 for those throwing themselves down an ice track at speeds exceeding 80 mph, it's No. 13 that has been unlucky in Beijing for the lugers and Great Britain driver Brad Hall, who misjudged it in the third heat to leave Britain's hopes head over heels with the team skidding along the course.

"You go into survival mode, it's the tightest grip you have," GB brakeman Nick Gleeson said. "Thankfully it was a small crash compared to some of the ones I've had. It's an adrenaline rush -- not the most ideal one -- but I'm glad we're safe and sound and we went back up for the fourth run."

That tricky turn -- on the verge of the finale to the course and just before the double chicane of 14 and 15 -- caused carnage on Monday in the first two legs of the women's singles luge. The course is in the shape of a dragon, so it's the creature's tail that is tripping up the hopefuls. The lugers had only limited time on the course -- alongside the track walk, they had six practice runs to learn its intricacies -- before they competed.

Back on the first Monday of the Games, one of the precompetition favorites, Germany's Julia Taubitz, lost control on that bend, flipped her luge and skidded. The same fate befell the USA's Emily Sweeney.

"That was hard," Sweeney said. "It's a tough spot you have to come out right, if you're not correct coming out then the track gives away and you're weightless. If you're crooked a little bit in your sled or you're not in the right spot, it'll get you."

Austria's Madeleine Egle, who took bronze at Pyeongchang, also flipped on that bend, but she explained the intricacies of the problem: "It's a real technical curve. You have some options to slide this curve.

"It's just a little bit weird because the curve's going to the left side, but then there's a straightaway but not a real straightaway because of the two 14 and 15 curves. So it just needs to be calm and needs to have the right direction when you get out of the curve because you can't steer anything into another direction, otherwise you will flip over."

Effectively, it leads you steering against the momentum you're heading in.

Those who competed in the men's double luge also found it tough, with Zack Digregorio -- one half of the USA pair -- saying it requires the need for a "consistent slider" but warned that "anyone [who is] off even a little bit can flip there."

It was too much for Latvian brothers Andris and Juris Sics who were tracking well, until they entered Corner 13 only to make their medal-ending mistake.

In the men's singles it was Curve 9 that did for Felix Loch while David Gleirscher's run was interrupted by a mistake on that now-infamous No. 13.

"All in all, for me it was s---" he said afterward.

Traditionally, there are fewer crashes in skeleton than luge. Germany's skeleton hopeful Tina Hermann rooms with Taubitz and she said the experience is different, but still tricky.

"It's a difficult one for us, entering 14 and 15," Hermann said. "It's really hard to find the perfect line."

But the skeleton sliders all managed to get through the course relatively unscathed. The monobob also passed without drama, but it has proved troublesome for the two-man bobsled early in this second week.

The Canadian team piloted by Justin Kripps said it had difficulty with it during the first heat on Monday as they made a "big mistake" there, and it ended up being the unlucky curve that ended GB's hopes as they clipped the wall and ended up face down in the ice.

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Trouble with the curve: Unlucky No. 13 is treacherous for lugers and bobsled racers

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Feb 15, 2022 Tom HamiltonSenior Writer Close * Joined ESPN in 2011 * Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours * Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 If you're the superstitious type, you've likely taken notice of Curve 13 of the Flying Dragon Course in Beijing.

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