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What to know about skeleton at the Winter Olympics: Hurtling head first down an icy chute on a sled

Everything you need to know about skeleton, the Olympic sport that sends athletes hurtling head first down icy tracks at 90 miles an hour

Skeleton at the Winter Olympics: What to know

The post shares a 64-second video clip of Winter Olympics skeleton racing, mistakenly identified as luge, though the caption correctly notes luge's feet-first steering technique. It garnered nearly 5 million views and 7,900 likes within a day, sparking 144 replies mostly correcting the error with explanations and humorous GIFs. Skeleton involves head-first sledding at speeds exceeding 130 km/h, unlike luge; peer-reviewed studies on Olympic risks confirm higher injury rates in skeleton due to exp

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