Watch an Olympic skier ride an escalator by only hanging onto the handrail

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• Swiss skier Fabian Bösch showed off a gravity-defying trick during his spare time at the Winter Olympics.
• The 20-year-old Olympian posted a video on Instagram of him "riding" an escalator with one hand.
• The short clip shows him holding onto the rail of an escalator until it brings him all the way to the next floor.
• Bösch will officially compete in the men's slopestyle event on Sunday.

Olympic athlete Fabian Bösch showed off a unique trick in Pyeongchang during his spare time at the Winter Olympics.

On Monday, the Swiss freestyle skier posted a video on Instagram of him "riding" an escalator with one hand. The short clip shows Bösch, 20, strolling up to the side of an escalator and grabbing onto the rail with his right hand. He then casually holds on until the rail brings him all the way to the next floor.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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