Of all the daredevil sports at the Winter Olympics, the one that seems particularly perilous has a frightening-sounding name to match: skeleton. In advance of this week’s competition in Pyeongchang, U.S. skeleton racer John Daly broke down the sport for the CNN-backed video network “Great Big Story.” “The skeleton track is roughly one mile long, and I’ll slide up to 90 miles an hour with my face only one inch off the ice,” Mr. Daly said. “People have died doing this, and I know that, but going 90 miles an hour is so damn...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 15, 2018 17:24 UTC