Olympic Commentator Calls Bobsled Track “A Mario Kart Rainbow Road”

Recently at the Olympics, one of the commentators compared the monobob track to Mario Kart's iconic Rainbow Road course, and it was great. Commentator Bree Schaaf, who previously competed in bobsled at the Olympics in 2010, dropped the knowledge during a recent broadcast that fans reacted to on social media.

"Coming out of corner 13, that section of the track goes up, goes down, it bends away--it's like a Mario Kart Rainbow Road. It is so hard to make it through there clean," Schaaf said. You can watch the sequence in the video below, and it's also been preserved in an official NBC press release for further enjoyment.

Replying to viewers who noticed the reference during the broadcast, Schaaf said of the comparison to Rainbow Road, "That's really how this track feels--weightless at times and… weird!"

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