All eyes are on this Australian bobsleigh team leading the charge to the Winter Olympics

The Olympic sliding track in Yanqing district, China, resembles a dragon crouched among the fibrous forests of the mountain. Its beauty is an afterthought for bobsleigher Breeana Walker, but its architecture is never out of her mind.

Yanqing, where Walker and her fellow Australian teammates Sarah Blizzard and Stefanie Fernandez are training, is where the 2021-22 sliding season starts. It's also where the Winter Olympic Games will take place next February, and the Australian team plans on being there.

Every day before sliding begins Walker hikes the track to study the ice, its condition, its curves, its straightaways, its hazards.

"In the beginning, it's quite steep. And then it kind of levels out and then there's what they call the spiral, a 360-degree corner, that kind of drops, so then you get a whoosh of speed," she said.

Speed, measured in tenths of a second, is why bobsled is known as Formula 1 racing on ice.

It's no secret Australia isn't known for the sport, but that pace, adrenaline and sheer love of it is lifting this trio to new heights. So much so, the international circuit is taking notice.