Originally Posted by pgp
Are the margins always so tight in Winter Games? A number of the sports are separated by less than a second from Gold through Bronze!

I was watching a program on Dutch TV about our bobsled team.
They teamed up with DSM to develop a faster sled by making it lighter, stiffer, and smoother to gain up to a few thousands of a second.

For those who care, they made it stiffer by using Turane resin instead of epoxy:
http://www.dsm.com/en_US/html/drs/news_items/Daron_turane.htm