Carina Evans knows how to take a fall – but she has never fallen like this. Losing control of her racing toboggan, she flies head-first into a barrier, spins and careers down the outer wall. Her body ...

Since 1887, fearless men have barreled headlong down the Cresta Run in St. Moritz to a crescendo of busted sleds and broken bones. It's still all downhill this winter--if you've got what it takes. The ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I want to scream but I can hardly draw breath. I am careering down a gulley of solid ice, my head poised above the ...

Writing in his Daily Mail column some years ago, that peerless chronicler of sporting life, the late Ian Wooldridge, famously described a trip down the Cresta Run as "the second-greatest thrill that ...

You couldn't hang around the Cresta Run for long, David Gower said this week, without hearing the name of Nino Bibbia. The Cresta may have been an English invention, created by the Victorian gentlemen ...

Located in the picturesque town St. Mortz, this 1.2 km stretch of Cresta track is where it all began in the late 19 th century, when British soldiers skeleton raced down the town snowy slopes. Now as ...

Women will be allowed to race down the iconic Cresta Run toboggan track in Switzerland this season after an 89-year ban was overturned. They had been allowed to race on equal terms with men until the ...

The Cresta Run toboggan track in Switzerland has voted to overturn an 89-year ban on women racing its course. While female competitors were originally free to use the natural ice run for skeleton ...

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