[...] there's skeleton sledding: belly down, head first on a sled the size of a throw rug, hard ice whooshing by your face. The site of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid offers the rare chance to try this lesser known sliding sport on its twisting sled run. While racers take running jumps onto their sleds and can exceed 80 mph, visitors are pushed off about halfway down the run and can hit 30 to 40 mph. Often eclipsed by bobsled and luge, skeleton returned to the Olympics in 2002 after a 54-year hiatus. [...] far more people show up later in the morning when the Olympic center switches to offering bobsled rides.