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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Mark Staniforth

Britain ‘pushing the boundaries’ of technology to keep skeleton medal run going

PA Wire

British skeleton stars are banking on more top-secret innovations in Beijing to help them maintain a medal-winning streak that stretches back to the reintroduction of the sport into the Olympic programme in 2002.

Skeleton has yielded seven medals over the past five Games, including three in Pyeongchang in 2018, as the team banks on technological advances in order to mitigate the disadvantage of its minimal access to ice.

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