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Starting a skeleton event

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Starting a skeleton event

Louise Corcoran leaps onto her sled at the beginning of an official training run for the women's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Torino, Italy. Corcoran represented New Zealand at a number of international skeleton competitions in the 2000s.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Ice sports – Luge, skeleton and bobsleigh, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/40963/starting-a-skeleton-event (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 27 February 2013, updated 1 January 2016.