Rough Opening Rounds For Jamaican Skeleton At Winter Olympics
Anthony Watson – Jamaica’s first skeleton at the Winter Olympics produced times of 53.13 and 54.04 seconds in his first two runs in the Men’s skeleton competition at the winter Olympics in Pyeonchang.
He now sits in 29th position overall following his slides in heat one and heat two where he clocked his fastest ever starts at 4.91 seconds.
Skeleton is a winter sport featured in the Winter Olympics where the competitor rides head-first and prone (lying face down) on a flat sled. It is normally run on an ice track that allows the sled to gain speed by gravity.
Competitors generally hit speeds between from 70 to 80 miles per hour, but speeds sometimes get as high as 90 miles per hour.
Watson, with an overall time of 1-minute-47.17 seconds is 6.82 seconds behind the overall leader Yun Sungbin of South Korea who has a cumulative time of 1-minute-40.35 seconds.
Russian athlete Nikita Tregubov currently lags behind Yun Sungbin by 0.74 seconds.
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