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DEC.07 | Altensmash

  • Posted on: 7 December 2008
  • By: Michelle

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So here we are.

The place I have been dreading since the day I started skeleton. Altenberg. Also known as Altencrash ... Altenhurt ... Altensmash ... you get the picture. This track was ordered by the East German government to be built in secret in the 1980s. Apparently they had to rip apart corner 11 and 12 and rebuild them because they were so hard no could get down the track safely.

Rumour has it they built this track to mimic each of the hardest parts of all the other tracks in the world. There is a 360 degree kreisel (circle) where you go in, shoot up to the roof, down to the bottom, up to the roof, down to the bottom, up to roof, down to the bottom and then promptly shoot off the corner, and, if you are lucky, land right side up. And that's the safe line.

From day one of your skeleton career you hear stories about Altenberg ... people crashing and breaking bones and getting concussions and severing limbs and the odd decapitation ...

So yeah ... ummm ... is it too late to change my mind on this whole skeleton thing and maybe choose, oh I don't know, drug-free childbirth instead?

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