The adventure begins....

People aren't quite sure what the sport of skeleton is.....so I explain, you got bobsled, self explanatory, luge which you slide on your back, feet first, down the boblsed track, and then you got skeleton, where you slide on your stomach, two inches of the ice, head first, down the bobsled track, attaining speeds of 100kms to 140kms.....needless to say, you actually need to attend a skeleton school, successfully pass the course, practically, and obtain a licence so that you may slide competitively.
Well since securing a coach in December 2004, we researched the rules and regulations to qualify for the Olympics in 2006 in Torino, Italy. The rules stated that in order to qualify for the Olympics, an athlete had to have competed in five races, over two seasons, on three different tracks.......well a season usually ends in February or March. There was one school left, in the first week of January, in Park City Utah.....IF I made it there and IF I passed the course and obtained my licence, there was only one race that I was eligible to compete in to close out the 2004-2005 season, to say that I competed last season, and that was the America's Cup in Lake Placid, NY.......at the end of January. Talk about time constraints.....and to top off the almost impossible, once I received my licence, I had to send it to Greece to get it endorsed and approved by the Greek Ice Federation. They sent me my approval by fax on a Sunday and on Monday, I was in Lake Placid to compete. The first few hurdles were completed in a zippidy-do-dah fashion.