The Cresta Run in Switzerland is notoriously difficult and dangerous for practitioners of skeleton, the Olympic sledding sport. Until recently, women were barred from using it. By Noele Illien ST. ...

In my rugby career I've been lucky enough to pick up some of sport's glittering prizes - but completing my third and final run on a toboggan down the Cresta Run, I enjoyed an adrenalin rush every ...

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"As you can see," Payne says, "it is possible, some would say likely, for you to break every part of your body riding the Cresta Run." The shattered pelvis bound with what looks like a bicycle ...

It's even crazier than downhill skiing." That's how four-time Olympian and Ski Sunday presenter Chemmy Alcott described the iconic Cresta Run. Switzerland's St Moritz Tobogganing Club (SMTC ...

A century before anyone came up with the “extreme sports” tags or created the X Games, folks in Switzerland built the Cresta Run, a narrow and icy track at the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club.

It began as a light-hearted group dare but, as Ian Cowie discovers, hurtling down The Cresta Run in St Moritz on a glorified tea-tray isn't so funny. Imagine a sheet of ice three-quarters of a ...

The Cresta Run is so fast that tobogganists must control their approaches through the turns or risk being flung out of the ice gully An Army captain survived a six month tour of Iraq unscathed ...

Carina Evans has ridden the Cresta Run 139 times and is the Ladies' Grand National winner "Exhilarating, risky and addictive. It's even crazier than downhill skiing." That's how four-time Olympian ...