Fast and fearless: photographing at Sochi’s Sanki Sliding Center

Fast and fearless: photographing at Sochi’s Sanki Sliding Center

Sanki is one of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic venues, where some of the world’s best athletes compete for glory. The venue is above Rhosa Khutor, some 60 km (37 miles) northeast of Sochi in the “mountain cluster” of Olympic venues.

via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/02/18/fast-and-fearless-photographing-at-sochis-sanki-sliding-center/

It must take a lot of courage for bobsleigh, skeleton and luge competitors to hurl themselves at mega speeds down the 1,365-meter ice track at the Sanki Sliding Center. It looks crazy – would you do it?