Did you see the ski cross on TV the other week? It’s the newest sport in the Winter Olympics, and involves four skiers racing each other at frightening speed down a lethally steep mountain, flying over jumps, hurtling round twists and turns and generally risking life and limb.
Extreme highs and lows are what you'd expect from the Olympics, but unfortunately we've also come to expect them from the UK housing market and its 'boom and bust cycle'.