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Going Downhill Fast

 

Going Downhill Fast

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Ten of Australia's fastest - and craziest - female athletes have been handpicked to hurtle themselves head first down an icy run at speeds greater than 120kmh, all in the pursuit of winning an Olympic gold medal at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics.

Ten of Australia's fastest - and craziest - female athletes have been handpicked to hurtle themselves head first down an icy run at speeds greater than 120kmh, all in the pursuit of winning an Olympic gold medal at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics.

But none of them have competed in the death-defying event called the skeleton, which involves rocketing on a sled lying down on the same run used as the bobsled.

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