John Daly unretires, will pursue 2018 Olympic skeleton spot
John Daly was painstakingly close to an Olympic skeleton medal in 2014, and when it slipped out of reach in one disastrous moment he insisted that he would never compete again. He was wrong.
Daly has unretired, making the surprise announcement on Monday that he will pursue a spot on the team that will represent the U.S. at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. He’s been secretly training in Lake Placid, New York, for the last few weekends — making 18-hour round-trip drives from Washington for what amounted to eight minutes of time going headfirst down the ice — and is expected to start competing on lower-level circuits in January.