Britain's Laura Deas (L) at the finish line of the Olympic Sliding Center for Women's Skeleton, Finland's Enni Rukajarvi (C) at Women's Big Air Snowboarding qualification and Finland's Janne Ahonen (R) at Men's Ski Jumping at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

The Winter Olympics are undeniably cool, but some of the sports can seem absolutely crazy, making you wonder whose bright idea it was to first hurtle down a nearly mile-long tube of ice (bobsled, skeleton, luge)...

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