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Article: Going for cold.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2006
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Byline: JULIAN CHAMPKIN
Competitors at this month's Winter Olympics will strain every sinew to ski, jump and slide faster and further than ever before.
But, as an amazing new TV show reveals, their efforts pale beside the creatures who live in the Earth's coldest places.
The Winter Olympics are upon us again and the Italian city of Turin is hosting the world's best human athletes - as they jump, ski, sledge and skate to the very limits of the body's capability. But put them up against the real stars of wintry nature - the creatures that live and thrive in snow and ice - and how well would they do? A bit of scientific analysis, a spot of ...