Oh, that wasn't meant to be dismissive or paint the sport as easy by any stretch. I do get that it's extremely hard and requires peak conditioning. I was more commenting on it being the sport where people hurtle downhill face first with the least equipment of any of the sliding sports.

wrong sport... if you're going to be tasteless at least get it right!

This is not a very good portrayal of skeleton. At the start of each run, skeleton athletes have to sprint while pushing their sled to gain as much initial velocity as possible. Athletes train extremely hard to be as powerful and fast as possible, which involves a lot of weightlifting and sprint training. To…