Maybe sometimes people wonder what it is like to be us. What do those athletes get up to travelling around the world for so many weeks on end? Here's the truth: it's not as exotic as it sounds.
We will have to wait until the second week of the Games before Pierre Lueders and Helen Upperton get their shot at gold on the Whistler Sliding Centre.
While the sled or toboggan has been used for travel and fun for some 700 years, today's bobsledders have to be fast and agile to reach the finish line first as well as right side up.