Every two years, either the Summer or the Winter Olympics inspires viewers at home to look into sports they may not have known much about before tuning in. And in some cases, that research even prompts viewers to give the sport a go themselves.
Bobsledding is one of those Winter Olympic sports that tends to pique interest from viewers across the world because it’s not one many fans are used to watching outside of the Olympic Games. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to bobsled?
NBC correspondent and Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Jost, along with former Eagles star Jason Kelce, tried a mock bobsled race during this year’s Olympics. Needless to say, neither held back their honest thoughts while on the track; they were both truly terrified.
“I was not prepared for the level of terror of this bobsled,” Jost said on an NBC Sports segment. “I swear to God I thought I was going to die. I thought my back was going to snap in half. I thought my bones were gonna fly off my body and be littered all up and down the bobsled track. It was by far the scariest experience I’ve ever had in my life.”
Jost can be heard screaming and yelling expletives in the footage of him in the bobsled.
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Kelce, meanwhile, shared more of his bobsled experience in a lengthy Instagram comment underneath a joint post with USA Bobsledding. He said the bobsled reached 84 miles per hour.
“I thought this would be like a fun roller coaster, but man was I wrong. It started out quiet and smooth, but as we continued to pick up speed the intensity got higher and higher. The turns bounced my shoulders and head like I was back on a football field, the noise of the sled got louder and louder, rattling as if the whole thing was falling apart. Faster and faster we kept gaining speed until we topped out in turn 8 At 84 miles an hour. By then, my 280 pound body was being multiplied by 5 Gs and it felt like 1400 lbs was pushing me into the bottom of the sled, It’s metal rails I was sitting on bruising my hips. At that point, it was so loud I could no longer hear my own screams, which I’m not sure I was even producing because the air had been squeezed out of my body. Just as I wondered how much more of it I could take, I heard the relieving sound of the brakes.”
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Colin Jost, Jason Kelce Show the World How Terrifying Bobsledding Is for the Inexperienced.
