Face Down, 60 MPH: Inside a Skeleton Run at the Whistler, BC, Olympic Sliding Center

Face Down, 60 MPH: Inside a Skeleton Run at the Whistler, BC, Olympic Sliding Center

Face down, head down skeleton ride at Whistler. | Photo: Whistler Sliding Center Whistler Olympic Sliding Center, Whistler, BC I stood at the top of the Whistler Olympic Sliding Center, waiting my turn to climb onto a skeleton sled for the first of two runs down the icy track. As the cold air hung still and the starter checked the sled, my mind drifted—not to fear, but to how I’d ended up here getting ready to sled ride at 60 mph down an ice-cov…