On 18 February, Kristan Bromley, a former BAE Systems engineer, will be hurtling down one of the fastest and most terrifying ice runs to ever feature in the Winter Olympics.rnHe'll do this head first at speeds of up to 90mph on a thin steel frame that will lift his body just inches above the ice. For a trained aerospace engineer this may seem an unlikely career choice, but for the man also known as 'Dr Ice', the move to skeleton bobsleigh has been a natural progression from an early and consuming interest in performance technology.
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