Bobsleigh

This has got to be one of my favourite all time winter sports after Ice Hockey, of course. It is something that has intrigued me since a very early age. I think it it the inbuilt childhood memories of hurtling down hills on the back of a plastic sledge on a cold winters morning, or the thought of missing a day of school because the snow has come and its time to go toboganing. These are the best feelings to an 9 year old child and seem to always stay with you. WE put up with the cold, the wet and the downright uncomfortable feeling of snow in January and February to slide and normally hurt ourselves on our own version of the Alps.....The local Park! ...

Ice sport-training camp at Lillehammer This was a camp for real adrenaline junkies, sliding down and occasionally into the Olympic bobsleigh track at Lillehammer, Norway. After reading an article about skeleton sliding (basically head first on what looks like a kids sledge) I contacted the British bobsleigh association who also run skeleton. They invited me to join them with other like-minded nutters at one of the training camps that was to be run during October 99. The camp is run by the association to identify people with potential to progress onto the British team in the 3 sliding disciplines of Luge, skeleton & bobsleighs. The first day was spent ...