In reply to geologist:
> Join the armed forces. Whilst in the raf, I did a 3 week luge and skeleton course in Innsbruck aimed at picking out future talent for the British squad and further training.
> If you cant do that, then a stupidly rich mummy and daddy help
> For the record Luge is much much more technical and scary than the skeleton.
But you can be fat and over 40 and still win. Sounds good to me.