Sliding into a new set of standards

China's plan to transfer the skills of track and field athletes to winter sports ahead of Beijing 2022 is already paying off

Victories in recent international competitions have proved China's ambition of turning long jumpers into skeleton pilots is much more than just a theory.

In fact, the nation's newcomers to skeleton have successfully transferred the speed and power of track and field to the lightning-fast sliding sport more seamlessly than anyone dared imagine.