matt bainbridge

As someone who has never tried skeleton, what are the odds I would die...

The odds of dying on an Olympic-level skeleton track as a complete beginner (someone who's never tried the sport) are extremely low — but not literally zero, and the activity is legitimately dangerous enough that no sane facility would let you just show up and bomb down the full Olympic course. Here's a realistic breakdown based on available data from studies, Olympic records, and sliding sport safety analyses: Fatalities in skeleton are exceptionally rare. There is no recorded death during ...