The Olympic sport of Skeleton dates back to the 19th century, but the origin of the name remains up for debate. Here’s a look at the history behind the sport.
The Olympic sport of Skeleton dates back to the 19th century, but the origin of the name remains up for debate. Here’s a look at the history behind the sportIt’s hard to imagine a more ominous name for a sport than skeleton. So what is behind the puzzling title? One-hundred forty years of history.
Similar to its sledding sisters, luge and bobsledding, skeleton dates back to the late 19th century in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The resort town in southeast Switzerland is a mecca of winter sports, having hosted the Winter Games twice . The first skeleton track was built in 1884 by Swiss vacationers to St. Moritz. Stretching three-quarters of a mile from St. Moritz to Celerina, the run was dubbed the “Cresta Run,” named after a small settlement along the trail. This gave rise to the first iteration of competition in skeleton, or toboggan as it's sometimes referred as.
By 1987 the sport had already undergone a major change when athletes started competing headfirst after recording significantly faster times when competing on their stomachs. Skeleton continued to evolve over the next century, developing more advanced techniques to yield higher speeds and establishing its own federation before appearing in the 1928 Olympics in the sport’s birthplace -- St. Moritz. It returned to the Olympics twenty years later when St. Moritz won the bid to host the fifth Winter Games and was permanently added to the Olympics program in 2002. An Englishman named Mr.
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