What’s it like… to be world champions at skeleton yet have no home-based training run

Us Brits have had three world champions and two Olympic gold medalists in the winter sport of skeleton, yet we don’t even have a skeleton track in the UK.

I find this fascinating. How do they even train?

I went to Ice Sheffield to speak to 2006 Olympic silver medalist and 2013 world champ Shelley Rudman and her partner and 2008 world champ Kristan Bromley to find out.


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Author: Jo Gunston

Freelance sportswriter Jo Gunston works for the likes of Olympics.com and also publishes additional content at sportsliberated.com. A favourite personal sporting moment for the former elite gymnast was performing as a 'dancer' in the London 2012 opening ceremony.

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