These people are insane

Our topic for today is the insane Olympic sport of Skeleton. The name alone suggests that something is not quite right with this sport. IMHO, these people are nuts. The sport – if you can call it that – essentially entails sliding down an ice track on a piece of plastic, head first, at 70 miles per hour. That’s it. The skeleton sled has no breaks or steering mechanism. It’s not much different than a lunch tray with handles and blades on the bottom, as the picture below shows. This is nuts.

FYI, Latvia is expected to pick up the men’s gold medal and Canada is expected to win the women’s one.

Whoops, my tray!