The word mettlesome has appeared in one article on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 10 in “In Beijing, Britain’s Skeleton Team Resets, With Confidence” by Jonathan Abrams:

Not everyone lasts.

“We’re quite brutal and quite cutthroat,” Williams said. “You have to get results. Otherwise, you’ll be kicked off. There’s not enough funding just to keep you on if you’re just not performing and maybe that mentality really drives the athlete continuously.”

Pairing mettlesome athletes with cutting-edge technology is “the nucleus of what’s driven the program over the last 20 years,” Holdcroft said.

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