In the summertime, the bobsled is replaced with a wheelbob — a bobsled with wheels —for a slightly slower yet still exhilarating bobsled experience.
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THE WOMEN'S BOBSLED TEAM No matter if they're in the same bobsled are not, the U.S. women's team sticks together.
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Or if you're visiting in summertime, there's the summer bobsled, aka "Rolling Thunder," which uses a bobsled equipped with wheels.
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The Lake Placid bobsled experience goes for $95, which includes a team shirt and 20 percent off your second bobsled ride.
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At Utah Olympic Park you can bobsled on the same track used for the bobsled, skeleton and luge events during the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games.
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U.S. WINS IN BOBSLED Beat Hefti of Switzerland was crowned a European champion by winning a two-man bobsled World Cup race on his home course in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
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When women's bobsled begins here on Tuesday, the athletes will ride in a two-man sled, as they have since the inaugural Olympic women's bobsled competition took place in 2002.
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Bobsled: Jaime Lowe writes about bobsled driver Seun Adigun, who parted with the U.S. to present her home country of Nigeria — the first African nation to ever compete in the event.
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The apotheosis, no doubt, was the Jamaican bobsled team that inspired the 2000 film "Cool Runnings," the chef-d'oeuvre that forced filmmakers to abandon everything that was previously understood about bobsled movies.
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Many bobsled athletes, for example, are former elite track sprinters.
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He was extremely competitive this season in bobsled and skeleton.
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When life hands you a snowstorm, dig a giant bobsled track.
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The first African Bobsled team to qualify for the Winter Olympics!!
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The Jamaican bobsled athlete Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian knows that advantage firsthand.
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Not long after, she had a conversation with Nigeria's bobsled federation.
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The final day of competition in bobsled begins later this morning.
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He was dressed as a member of a Jamaican bobsled team.
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All the sleds: Bobsled, luge, and skeleton I already mentioned the bonkers skeleton event but the ice track is also home to bobsled and luge events, too, and these are all about speed, speed, and more speed.
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She did manage to get him on the famed Matterhorn Bobsled ride.
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Riding in that bobsled was the most exhilarating thing I'd ever done.
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However, they say they never imagined themselves being an Olympic bobsled team.
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Between the tours he worked and competed with the Navy bobsled team.
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"Crates are held up in L.A.," a U.S.A. Bobsled & Skeleton rep said.
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One extremely chill story to look out for: The women's Nigerian (!) bobsled (
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The superstar of the tropical Winter Games entries: the Jamaican bobsled team.
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None have come in the sliding sports of bobsled, luge or skeleton.
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I heard the crowds cheering, but there was no bobsled in sight.
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The bobsled facility was turned into an artillery stronghold during the war.
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And it's not been so "Cool Runnings" for the Jamaican bobsled team.
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Nigeria went ahead and made history and got themselves a Bobsled Team!
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One more fun thing for 2018: if you're a big fan of Cool Runnings and underdogs, then put your cheering behind the Nigerian womens bobsled team, the first bobsled team from Africa to ever qualify for the Winter Olympics.
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MOSCOW — In December, Grigorii Bedzhamov, the president of Russia's national bobsled federation, disappeared.
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It's a coconut macaroon designed to look like the famous Matterhorn Bobsled ride.
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Excuse us while we bobsled down to Disneyland to pick up a few.
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Tune in for Alpine skiing, men's snowboarding, four-man bobsled and men's speedskating.
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The Nigerian bobsled team has high, perhaps sky high, expectations to change that.
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Nigeria had no bobsled federation until the women on the team created one.
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Bobsled is not the only Olympic sport in which women get unequal treatment.
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The United States Olympic Committee and U.S.A. Bobsled and Skeleton announced his death.
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Nigeria's women's bobsled team is to make its debut at the 20183 Games.
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And while her followers will have to get used to her side-gig (photographing the Nigerian Bobsled and U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton teams) taking center stage, the inside look at Virgin America's flight attendants will always live on with her hashtag.
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U.S. SWEEPS BOBSLED United States sleds swept gold medals in World Cup bobsled races, with Jamie Greubel Poser and Aja Evans winning the women's competition in Lake Placid, N.Y., after Steven Holcomb and Sam McGuffie prevailed in the two-man race.
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Here is my very brief summary of the bobsled event in the winter Olympics.
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"I didn't have a clue what bobsled was before the 2014 games," Adigun says.
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And that's one of the coolest things I feel has really come about bobsled.
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The beer company didn't waste time coming to the country's first bobsled team's aid.
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According to U.S.A. Bobsled and Skeleton, the sleds are shipped in crates as freight.
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Pengilly, 40, is also the vice president of international federation for bobsled and skeleton.
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Jamaica also qualified for the Olympics in bobsled in 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2014.
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There's a Matterhorn Bobsled, and a "Doom Buggy" that transported guests through the Haunted Mansion.
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America's bobsled team is particularly diverse, as detailed in a Boston Globe story last month.
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I am most excited to watch the bobsled racing, as well as the speed skating.
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The many wonders of that Winter Olympics legacy include an indoor luge and bobsled track.
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Many sliding centers offer visitors the opportunity to ride in a bobsled with a pilot.
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It's so hard to find a new way to illustrate many Olympic sports, especially bobsled.
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Check the website for both hours and prices for wintertime activities and the summer bobsled.
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Also a successful athlete in the U.S., Adeagbo was inspired by her female bobsled counterparts.
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Setting their sights on the 2018 Winter Games, the three set out to learn bobsled.
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The U.S. women's bobsled team is made up of some of the sports most seasoned athletes.
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She is now competing for Nigeria for the second time after founding the bobsled team herself.
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Now apply the same drag equations to figure out what would happen with Mark's bobsled experiment.
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I made the best picture of sliding sports I have ever seen, even without a bobsled.
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WinSport is open daily, and the luge, skeleton and bobsled experiences are offered in the wintertime.
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Reuters has contacted the countries' respective federations, Bobsleigh Canada and USA Bobsled and Skeleton, for comment.
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He was steered to bobsled and nearly made the 2014 Sochi Games team for the Netherlands.
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So here is a block on a low friction inclined plane—see, that's just like a bobsled.
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During the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games, a worker was hit by a bobsled, according to CBC Sports.
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Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga are also hoping to start a bobsled foundation for Africa.
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She recruited Onwumere and Omeoga, both of whom are former sprinters but had no prior bobsled training.
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The newly formed Bobsled & Skeleton Federation of Nigeria Instagram account was filled excited poses and exclamatory posts.
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But it's actually just on an abandoned bobsled track on the mountain Trebevic in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Davis, the Penn State historian, points to Elana Meyers Taylor, competing this year with the bobsled team.
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The arbitration panel rejected 11 appeals, including that of the two-time bobsled gold medalist Alexandr Zubkov.
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Athletes will ski and snowboard as well as compete in sports such as skeleton, bobsled and broomball.
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Russia is set to hold the world championships in bobsled and skeleton in Sochi in two months.
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" Of his first encounter with a bobsled, he said: "The second I hopped onto one I loved it.
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The rest take place on ice: curling, bobsled, figure skating, hockey, luge, short track, skeleton and speed skating.
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This isn't the Olympics, where specialized games come together and all of a sudden, you're "really into" bobsled.
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His work remains frenetic and electrically charged, as careening — and yet also as confident — as a bobsled racer.
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But it's also true — and calming — that they have been training bobsled drivers on the site since 1930.
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It would be her fourth, including the 260 Winter Games in Sochi, where she competed in the bobsled.
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And U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton is always looking for new athletes: The federation hosts combines for prospective athletes.
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The Whistler Sliding Centre there hosted the bobsled, luge and skeleton competitions during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.
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Or let someone else do the driving and hop into a bobsled to feel the pressure of 5Gs.
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The Jamaican bobsled team needed a new sled just days before competing in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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She was asked to join the U.S. Bobsled team for a training camp in Lake Placid in 2015.
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In the team's visit to Nigeria before departing for the Olympics, Adeagbo and the bobsled team were met positively.
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"Athletes have been losing sleep," said Lauryn Williams, a track and field and bobsled athlete from the United States.
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There were people picnicking near the bobsled tracks, and biking and skateboarding down the actual concrete segments of track.
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Medals will be awarded in the men's freestyle halfpipe, the women's cross-country team sprint and the women's bobsled.
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Her experience steering a crew team led her to believe that she might be able to steer a bobsled.
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The F.B.I. clashes with President Trump, Africa's first bobsled team prepares for the Olympics and "House of Cards" returns.
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If you want to take up the sport beyond a ride, Utah Olympic Park has a bobsled driving school.
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The African athletes in PyeongChang will compete in these sports -- bobsled, and skiing -- with varied disciplines across all sports.
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The competing athletes frantically sprint, pushing their bobsled to build momentum, and then they jump in it and go.
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Jamaica, with its "Cool Runnings" vibe and history of recruiting promising athletes for bobsled and skeleton, opened the way.
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On the track where the U.S. Men's four-man bobsled team won gold, you can hop into a four-person bobsled — with a trained pilot — and glide through 10 twists and turns, reaching speeds of more than 75 miles per hour and forces of 4G (astronauts experience 3Gs during a rocket launch).
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Most of us in some capacity got into this sport of bobsled because of Steve, had success because of Steve.
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The S73 is as slow as a Jamaican bobsled team when it comes to opening big apps and detailed documents.
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Nigeria is going to its first Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next year — thanks to the women's bobsled team.
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Part of the way down, the group crashed into a large gate used to separate the bobsled and luge tracks.
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Near the top of the hill, we turn right and glide down a paved road that resembles a bobsled run.
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The majority of members of the US women's bobsled team for both the Pyeongchang and Sochi games have been black.
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The full medal reallocation ceremonies for the Team USA 2014 Olympic bobsled teams will air on NBC on Sunday, Dec.
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The idea was conceived by an American, George Fitch, who reasoned that outstanding Jamaican runners would make outstanding bobsled pushers.
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Athletes like French figure skater Surya Bonaly and Fenlator-Victorian, a New Jersey native who competed on the US women's bobsled team in 2014 but will compete with the first Jamaican women's bobsled team this year, also say that attitudes and stereotypes about winter sports can make it difficult for black athletes to break through.
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Sergeeva, who finished 12th in the women's two-man bobsled, tested positive for the banned heart drug trimetazidine on February 18.
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If you're looking for more background on these sports, NBC sports has a full glossary for bobsled, luge, and skeleton available.
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Three women want to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea as the first Nigerian bobsled team in history.
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A trio of Nigerian women are making history as the continent's first-ever bobsled team to compete in the Winter Olympics.
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It looks sort of like a bobsled mounted on a couple of pontoons surrounded by a bunch of drone-like rotors.
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She also attended part of the bobsled competition and watched the U.S. men's curling team win their first-ever gold medal.
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Even though the real Jamaican bobsled team never "ever smoked weed," this 1993 comedy sports film is supremely satisfying on drugs.
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She also attended part of the bobsled competition, and watched the U.S. men's curling team win their first-ever gold medal.
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We thank her for her invaluable contribution to JBSF and contributing to the success of Jamaica's first female bobsled Olympic appearance.
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I've never seen a reallocation ceremony and I've never really even watched bobsled but now I've become a fan of it.
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"For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings,'" Meyers Taylor said, referencing the 1993 Disney film.
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You can see in the pics, Davis went full knees-to-chest to fit in the bobsled -- and apparently, it worked.
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Overbalance, and you might find yourself crashing dick-first towards a hard tiled floor like a bobsled racer approaching terminal velocity.
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He had been scheduled to fly to Minnesota on Sunday to review bobsled gear for the next season, his agent said.
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Visitors can ride in a piloted four-person bobsled with speeds that generate up to five times the force of gravity.
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"In all seriousness, we have never not laughed together since we've met," Akuoma said on the Nigerian Bobsled & Skeleton Federation's website.
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Nonskiers in the crowd can do everything from bobsled on the world's fastest track to spelunk in an ancient ice cave.
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It was the first competition since international officials elected to pull this season's world bobsled and skeleton championships out of Russia.
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But cheering some sucker punches and jeering others is a bobsled down a slippery slope, especially because of the potential consequences.
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"Part way down, the group hit a large gate used to separate the bobsled and luge tracks," police said in the statement.
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Another big difference: while a bobsled has both a steering mechanism and brakes, neither the luge or skeleton sleds have those options.
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Puerto Rico sent a bobsled team to the 2002 Games, but did not compete as one of the athletes was ruled ineligible.
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Lolo's been doing double duty lately ... competing as a member of the U.S. bobsled team when she's not training on the track.
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"Part way down, the group hit a large gate used to separate the bobsled and luge tracks," police said in a statement.
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A generation of kids grew up watching Cool Runnings, the fun and very heavily fictionalized tale of the first Jamaican bobsled team.
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Jones represented the United States in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics (100-meter hurdles) and in the 2014 Winter Olympics (bobsled).
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Unlike the men, who have four-man and two-man competitions, there is only one bobsled event for women at the Olympics.
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Many women who compete in bobsled say their biggest barrier is a lack of funding for training and competing at international levels.
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He split his time between there and Lake Placid, the two places believed to have the only bobsled tracks in the nation.
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Holcomb's vision degenerated to the point that he was convinced that his bobsled career was ending, and his mood quickly turned bleak.
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Travelers can literally follow in the footsteps of Olympians and bobsled, ski, ice skate and more at Olympic venues around the world.
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Shauna Rohbock, a former Winter Olympian, current Team USA coach for the bobsled team and a member of the US National Guard.
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And just before the 2014 Olympics, the Jamaican bobsled team received a massive influx of dogecoin donations to cover travel costs to Russia.
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A track worker is incredibly lucky to have escaped injury after he nearly got run over by a bobsled mid-race this weekend.
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Women's bobsled team member Elana Meyers Taylor says she would prefer the single gold, and gave a heartfelt reason to explain her decision.
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Mr. Mather said the biathlon was surprisingly enjoyable during the 2014 Sochi Games, but you may want to steer clear of bobsled events.
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St. Moritz is also home to Cresta Run, a famous bobsled run and the only one in the world made of natural ice.
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Last night I was running while watching the Jamaica Bobsled team and I was embarrassingly loud person cheering them on in the gym.
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"It would be easy to focus on the loss in terms of his Olympic medals and enormous athletic contributions to the organization," said USA Bobsled & Skeleton CEO Darrin Steele in a statement, "but USA Bobsled & Skeleton is a family and right now we are trying to come to grips with the loss of our teammate, our brother and our friend."
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The bid from Sweden also includes participation from Latvia, across the Baltic Sea, which would host the bobsled competition on its track at Sigulda.
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That is until things once again took a turn for the worst as the bobsled came barrelling towards a worker standing on the track.
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The initial craft envisioned by Musk was the size of a bobsled, carrying three passengers in single file with almost no room to spare.
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There were plenty of references to the 24 film Cool Runnings, which was about the debut of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team in 20173.
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A group of at least eight teenage boys, Calgary police said, entered the premises after hours and attempted to go down the bobsled track.
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Adigun, who fell in love with the sport as a brakewoman in the U.S. bobsled program, estimated the Olympic bid to cost around $150,000.
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Two years later, she won a bronze at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in a two-woman bobsled piloted by Jamie Greubel Poser.
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In theory, the heavier bobsled might land about a quarter of an inch ahead of the lighter one — roughly the thickness of a cellphone.
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Even in a country like Canada, I don't know if I've ever met anybody who's been in a bobsled or has done the skeleton.
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The mile-long bobsled run, meanwhile, is about a 15-minute drive from the village, which gives you time to build up your courage.
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Here, she watches the bobsled competition final at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Sunday, where she represented the United States.
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The Jamaican women's bobsled team made their Olympic debut on Tuesday, becoming the first women's team from Jamaica to take part in the competition.
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Transneft, the huge state oil firm led by Mr. Tokarev, was one of Vneshprombank's core clients and was also a sponsor of the bobsled federation.
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Another feature film, based on the real-life efforts of the Jamaican bobsled team to qualify for the Winter Olympics in 1988, provided some inspiration.
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Their efforts mirror Cool Runnings, the 1993 film loosely based on the first-ever Jamaican national bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
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Now, the three are taking their athletic prowess to the snow, making history as the first-ever Olympic bobsled team from any country in Africa.
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It lent about 15 gold iPads and more than a dozen Apple watches to the U.S. bobsled team's coaching and support staff at the Olympics.
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Watching a bobsled team zip down an ice slide isn't as thrilling when you've just slipped and luged down a Brooklyn slope on your ass.
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The U.S. national bobsled team is in Germany for World Cup Olympic trials — but their bobsleds are stuck in customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
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If Mark dropped them nose-first, the aerodynamic shape of the bobsled would help it punch through the air more easily than the bowling ball.
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"We fully support the decision that bobsled made today," Scott Blackmun, the committee's chief executive, said after a meeting of the organization's board of directors.
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"The Russian Bobsleigh Federation has put a great effort in the preparation of the World Championships," the bobsled and skeleton officials said in their statement.
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All of this has complicated life for the bobsled federation, which has been prevented from paying its foreign trainers, including its Canadian chief coach, Pierre Lueders.
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Hell, even the Jamaican bobsled team can make a compelling case for the importance of chasing your dreams, no matter how far-fetched they may seem.
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German bobsledders Andreas Ostler and Lorenz Nieberl share a kiss after they scored in the two-man bobsled event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Oslo.
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Pengilly, a former world championship silver medalist, could now face further sanctions from the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, of which he is a vice president.
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It looks sort of like bobsled mounted on a couple of pontoons surrounded by a bunch of drone rotors — so, you know, totally safe I'm sure.
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A Nigerian bobsled team comprised of Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere, and Akuoma Omeoga is headed to South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics, The Independent reports.
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The United States women's bobsled team told her that she was too small to be a bobsledder, but that it was impressed by her athletic background.
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Other stories: Russia pushed back after confirming that one of its curlers failed a doping test, and women on the bobsled track are pushing for equality.
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In the 220-2500 Bobsled World Cup, which ended six weeks ago, Holcomb finished second in the two-man event and third in the four-man.
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His eyesight was saved in an operation that turned his 20-500 vision into something close to perfect, and his bobsled career took off from there.
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Uhlaender has faced Nikitina in competition several times in the last month alone, after bobsled and skeleton officials lifted a provisional suspension on implicated Russian athletes.
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Shauna Rohbock, a member of the Army National Guard who is also a former Olympian and now serves as a coach of the U.S. bobsled team.
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In the four-man bobsled, the driver Francesco Friedrich of Germany led his team to the fastest time in both heats to top the opening-day standings.
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She complained that her company, GRM Group, which sponsors her federation and was hired to help build the Olympic bobsled track, did not have any state contracts.
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Bobsled and skeleton sleds both ride the ice on runners while luge sleds have what are called "steels" which are blades of steel attached to the runners.
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"We are hoping Justin will recover quickly enough to compete in the two-man race," USA Bobsled and Skeleton chief Darrin Steele said in a news release.
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Olympic bobsled tracks are typically about twice as high as the Tower of Pisa, so the sleds reach much higher speeds, sometimes approaching 100 miles per hour.
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"Singapore is not typically associated with reggae, but if a bobsled team from Jamaica got to the Olympics, I think this is a small feat," she says.
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Allowing women's bobsled to expand at the Olympics might force some men's bobsledders to step aside because the I.O.C. limits the number of athletes in each sport.
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The Whistler Sliding Centre is open year-round, though winter bobsled, skeleton runs and Discover Biathalon are only offered from mid-December through the first of April.
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The bobsled and skeleton federation did not immediately respond to an email on Tuesday seeking additional details about its contract with Russian organizers regarding the Sochi event.
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The Swedish bid, for instance, planned to hold the bobsled, luge and skeleton events across the Baltic Sea in Sigulda, Latvia, where a refrigerated track already exists.
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With viral videos, trending topics and plenty of GIFs, the internet has crowned some of the early fan favorites as the American speedskater Maame Biney, the Jamaican women's bobsled team and, adding to momentum they built up long before the opening ceremony Friday, the Nigerian women's bobsled team (not to mention the shirtless Tongan competing improbably as a cross-country skier after flaming out in taekwondo at the 1503 Summer Olympics).
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Latvia, formerly part of the Soviet Union, has already announced its withdrawal from the world championships for bobsled and skeleton, slated to take place in Sochi in February.
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"I actually started doing a little bit more research and learned that Nigeria did not have, in history, a sports team that represent bobsled," Adigun told Okay Africa.
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But that's not all: According to The Washington Post, this also marks the first time in history that a bobsled team from Africa will head to the games.
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I tried to imagine a future where, after the world's top athletes had packed their bags, Seoulites would visit Pyeongchang in droves to luge and curl and bobsled.
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Getting to skate on the same ice as Olympians is an easy sell for locals and tourists, and braver visitors can ride a bobsled (no matter the season).
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"It's very unclear so far which products within those priority categories will be allowed through," said Kiri Masters, CEO of Bobsled Marketing, an agency that helps Amazon sellers.
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They make up the first African nation to compete in bobsled at the Olympics, and, win or lose, they said that they hope to make a lasting impression.
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In a lighter vein, Times Magazine writers explore how a top skier trains, how curling went subtropical, why Koreans excel at speedskating, and the Nigerian bobsled team, above.
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It gained fame during 2014 when it was used to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Winter Olympics in Sochi and it even sponsored a Nascar team.
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At the 1998 Games in Nagano, the British bobsled team repeatedly listened to Whitney Houston's anthem "One Moment in Time" to inspire them to a bronze-medal finish.
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Mr. Maleson, who piloted Brazil's first bobsled team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, said he had spoken with the authorities in Brazil and France.
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All but one sport in the program — bobsled, skeleton, boxing, canoe/kayak, cycling, rugby and weight lifting — wanted to see No. 319, Kayla Caldwell, test for their sport.
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For sports officials that have defied that guidance, the threat of boycott by global athletes has prompted them to move major events, including skiing, bobsled and skeleton competitions.
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They include Tour de France winning cyclists Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins, golfer Charley Hull, rower Sam Townsend and Heather Fisher, who has competed in the bobsled and rugby.
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The other three include: a velocity measurement system for long jumpers, a two-man bobsled, and a carbon fiber racing wheelchair for the U.S. Paralympics Track and Field Team.
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Tomlinson told CNN affiliate WACH that he and three other college students dressed up as characters from "Cool Runnings," a movie about a Jamaican bobsled team, a decade ago.
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"We fully support the decision that bobsled made today, it seemed like the right thing to do given how strongly the athletes felt about going to Russia," said Blackmun.
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A FIRST FOR WOMEN IN BOBSLED Kaillie Humphries of Canada became the first to drive an all-female sled against male competitors in a four-person World Cup competition.
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The African country has never competed in the Winter Olympics, but after the bobsled team qualified this week, Nigeria's green and white flag will be represented at the games.
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Today, Hamilton can laugh about his struggle to break into the business, comparing his journey to the plot in "Cool Runnings" -- a film about an underdog Jamaican bobsled team.
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Nigeria is in the Winter Olympics for first time, and its athletes Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga are the first African bobsled team competing in the games.
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"I had a bit of a chuckle thinking this was going to be like the movie 'Cool Runnings,' about the Jamaican bobsled team," he said in a telephone interview.
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Most of the venues are nearing completion, including a brand-new Alpine ski center, speedskating oval, figure skating arena and sliding track for the bobsled, luge and skeleton events.
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The new policy could also force sellers to become smarter with their cash, said Kiri Masters, founder of Bobsled Marketing, a firm that helps companies sell on the marketplace.
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International sports officials, facing a potential boycott by athletes upset over the Russian doping scandal, have decided to move bobsled and skeleton world championships out of Russia next year.
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Thorsten Margis and Francesco Friedrich of Germany react as they watch the final run by Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz of Canada during the men's 213-man bobsled Feb. 29.
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Women's bobsled team member Aja Evans previously announced her crush on Drake to the world in hopes that the rapper would reach out, but it didn't really go as planned.
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Police said in a previous statement that they believe the twins, along with six other boys, snuck into the park after hours and attempted to sled down the bobsled track.
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The German was preparing for Jamaica's first female bobsled appearance at an Olympics but her Pyeongchang Games adventure was cut short on Wednesday before the team even got to compete.
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The federation would purchase a fleet of standardized sleds, making bobsled a contest of strength and driving skill rather than an arms race for the best and most expensive engineering.
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Gronnemark, 42, is something of a sporting Renaissance man: He has competed for Denmark in track and field — generally as a sprinter — and been part of the national bobsled squad.
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Well, you might not have if you just had a tablet to stream it on during your flight (or bus ride, or bobsled trip — whatever your transportation method of choice).
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"Amazon can leverage it and charge more because it's a great marketing opportunity for brands and sellers," said Julie Spear, a manager at Bobsled Marketing, which advises Amazon marketplace sellers.
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The Germans Francesco Friedrich and Johannes Lochner were declared world champions in the four-man bobsled in Königssee, Germany, when the two pilots could not be separated after four runs.
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November 9, 228 - The Nigerian bobsled team qualifies for the 22018 Olympics, becoming both the first Nigerian team and the first African female competitors to be represented at the Winter Olympics.
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She was clocked in 8.37 seconds, three weeks after she was passed over for a spot on the United States bobsled team for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which begin this week.
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In addition to Lake Placid's Olympic-level bobsled runs, the public can skate on the 203-meter oval where Eric Heiden, an American, won five speedskating Olympic gold medals in 220.
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Some venues are more affordable than others — skating on the oval is $8, for example, while the bobsled experience costs $19303 for an adult (and includes a photo and T-shirt).
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Two years later, she was sipping tea in an office cafeteria at WeWork, a co-working office space in Manhattan, when she began a conversation with Lauren Gibbs, a bobsled athlete.
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First-time Olympian in bobsled Chris Kinney works remotely in a social media and marketing role for the Industrial Scaffolding Committee, an organization that provides training and certification for industrial builders.
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EUROPEAN TITLE FOR GERMAN Maximilian Arndt of Germany won a four-man bobsled World Cup race in St. Moritz, Switzerland, to extend his lead in the standings and take the European title.
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No African nation has ever competed in an Olympic bobsled event and for this trio of trail-blazing Nigerian women getting to the winter Games is where their journey begins, not ends.
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It was the first Olympic medal for the United States in the two-man event in 21 years — not the first Olympic medal for the United States in bobsled in 2800 years.
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It was the first Olympic medal for the United States in the two-man event in 62 years — not the first Olympic medal for the United States in bobsled in 62 years.
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Brewer Red Stripe, controlled by Heineken Holding, took its golden opportunity when Jamaica's women's bobsled team suddenly parted ways with their coach, who had also been helping to finance their Games campaign.
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"There are a lot of people trying to help us out, and it just shows the bobsled community really is one big family, even though we compete against each other," said Gibbs.
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Holcomb won 60 World Cup medals, along with 10 more medals at the world championships and three in the Olympics, making him one of the most decorated bobsled pilots in the world.
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The ESA image shows the location of the Olympic Stadium and Olympic Village, as well as where competitions in cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping, bobsled, luge and skeleton will take place.
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The 34-year-old will make his initial bid for a national team spot despite only pushing a sled for a "handful of days", according to the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation.
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The 89 competitors selected this year would compete for slots in one of eight sports, up from four sports in 2017: weight lifting, rowing, rugby, canoe/kayak, cycling, skeleton, bobsled and boxing.
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Russia's bobsled team was already enduring a rough patch, struggling to regenerate after the retirement of most of the athletes who had helped it win two gold medals at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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Taylor, a native of the Atlanta area, won a silver medal in bobsled at the 2014 Winter Games along with Lauryn Williams and an Olympic bronze four years before that with Erin Pac.
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Zubkov, who now serves as president of the Russian bobsled federation, was disqualified and barred for life from the Olympics, along with the speedskater Olga Fatkulina, who won silver in the 500 meters.
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"I saw a unique opportunity to apply my talent and serve my country in the sport of skeleton and haven't looked back ever since," she said on the Nigerian Bobsled & Skeleton Federation site.
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COOL RUNNINGS 2 Canada's team will be the hot favorite for the gold in the women's bobsled competition, but all eyes will be on the Jamaican women making their debut in the event.
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"It's believed at least eight teenagers, all males, entered the property after hours and used a personal sled/toboggan in an attempt to go down the bobsled track," police said in the Saturday statement.
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"The movie is about a Jamaican team that wants to compete in the bobsled event, but they don't have ice, so they train for the Olympics by practicing on a dirt hill," he says.
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Rocketing down an iced bobsled track at 2280 miles an hour, my first thought was not of the pageantry and festive spirit that will accompany the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea in February.
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Steven Holcomb, a three-time Olympian and gold medalist in bobsled, was found dead of an apparent drug and alcohol overdose at the United States Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., last year.
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That's because the ski-racing events, as well as sports like bobsled and skeleton, will happen elsewhere in Yanqing, at a new national alpine ski and sliding center called Xiaohaituo, about five miles away.
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There have also been attempts to turn Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Matterhorn Bobsled into film or TV properties, although all of those seem stuck in development hell at the moment.
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Keep Following PEOPLE's Complete Coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics "I've only been in the sport for two years, and my first season it wasn't that many women of color on bobsled teams," Jones says.
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But an investigation this summer found that government-sponsored doping had transcended any individual sport, touching disciplines as disparate as bobsled and weight lifting and corrupting the results of past Winter and Summer Olympics alike.
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Other events offer fewer spots for women than men on the Olympic roster, such as bobsledding, where the men have four-man and two-man teams and the women only have a two-woman bobsled team.
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Though early allegations of widespread doping in Russia had centered on Olympic track and field, recent investigations have concluded that the schemes transcended any one individual sport, touching disciplines as disparate as bobsled and weight lifting.
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The minimum weight for an empty two-person bobsled is about 375 pounds, so imagine that Mark dropped a pair of them from the tower, one of which had an extra 10-pound weight in it.
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"The fact the I.O.C. chose not to issue a blanket ban was a consequence of its efforts to reward clean athletes," said Stephen Hess, chairman of the Appeals Tribunal for the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation.
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But as our bobsled whizzed into a sharply banked turn that flipped me nearly upside down, my reaction was more primal: Am I still living an interactive Olympic experience if I close my eyes in fright?
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The Olympic bobsledding champion Steven Holcomb had prescription sleeping pills and alcohol in his system when he was found dead last month, according to a toxicology report provided to his family and U.S.A. Bobsled and Skeleton.
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American athletes who compete in bobsled and skeleton have circulated memos laying out reasons to avoid participating in the world championships in Sochi, the site of the last Winter Olympics and of elaborate, state-sponsored cheating.
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Russian athletes from biathlon, cross-country skiing and bobsled have been disproportionately disqualified from Sochi, and the database in question contains hundreds of hidden drug positives from those sports, according to people familiar with its contents.
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"The Bobsled Federation of Russia and the athlete herself understand the extent of their responsibility, and also understand that what has happened may impact the fate of the entire team," the Federation said in a statement.
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She has maintained that position as recently as Wednesday, judging by this quote Sergeeva gave Yahoo after she and her partner finished in 12th place in their two-woman bobsled event: Ah, the Treachery of T-Shirts.
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"Their hard work was inspiring and I hope Nigerians can appreciate what it took for them to achieve this," Solomon Ogba, president of the Bobsled and Skeleton Sports Federation of Nigeria said, as reported by The Independent.
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In 2002, Vonetta Flowers, a member of the bobsled team, became the first black athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics (Canadian hockey player Jarome Iginla would also win a gold medal that year).
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And if at some point in the future, somebody tries to invoke Wednesday's classic as a reason to consider using the shootout in the NHL playoffs, load them into a bobsled and slide them into a lake.
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These tracks are narrow and the trains are too, carrying only eight people total, and with riders sitting single file in bobsled-style cars that straddle the track and put you right in the middle of it.
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In addition to the bobsled, biathlon and skeleton, you can cross-country ski on the Olympic trails of Mt. Van Hoevenberg and downhill ski on Whiteface Mountain, the host of the 21992 Winter Olympics' alpine skiing competitions.
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Comprising of Seun Adigun, driver and founder, and two brakewomen, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga, the three athletes — all born in the U.S. to Nigerian parents — were previously successful track and field competitors before transitioning to bobsled.
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PYEONGCHANG (Reuters) - American pilot Justin Olsen is still hoping to compete in the two-man bobsled at the Winter Olympics despite undergoing an emergency appendectomy in South Korea on Monday, the United States Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.
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Atop Mount Trebevic, a bobsled track from the halcyon days of Sarajevo's 290 Winter Olympics was decimated by Serbs who used the peak as a sniper position; today, enterprising Sarajevan artists have reclaimed it as a graffiti park.
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Citing concerns about doping control, personal safety and information security, the newspaper said the athletes had circulated memos calling for a boycott of the bobsled and skeleton championships in the southern Russian resort, which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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"I definitely feel like I've taken on more of a role model case just from pursuing these Winter Olympic Games and my career in bobsled," Evans, who is also part of Procter & Gamble's "Love Over Bias" campaign, tells PEOPLE.
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Alexander Zubkov, a two-time bobsled gold medalist, was removed from the 2014 records in the latest round of verdicts from an I.O.C. panel prosecuting individuals caught in a program to cover up doping and tamper with tainted samples.
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And the man who first broke the news to the press that Sergeeva flunked the test — Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander Zubkov — is himself a former bobsledder who was stripped of two Olympic gold medals in the doping scandal.
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American Skeleton racer John Daly has been doing that competitively for 15 years, but his sled, which slides down an ice-covered bobsled using a pair of metal runners, can actually hit speeds of up to 90 miles per hour.
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As the bobsled continued to fly down the track sideways while the team did their best to protect themselves, it eventually zipped around a corner and flipped upright, where it charged down the rest of the icy path as normal.
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Disney's semi-true tale of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team features all the trappings of a classic sports comedy: an underdog story, a down-on-his-luck coach (the inimitable John Candy, in this case), and a sing-along theme song.
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They took a big step toward that goal this week in Calgary by completing the fifth of their required five qualifying races on the same track that the Jamaican bobsled team shot to global fame at the 1988 Winter Games.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — After all the news media interviews, after dancing on "Ellen" and attending receptions in their honor, it was time for the three women of the Nigerian bobsled team to get on the ice at the Pyeongchang Games.
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Driver Seun Adigun and brakewomen Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga, who are all track athletes born in the United States to Nigerian parents, successfully finished five qualifying races, putting a spot in the women's bobsled competition well within their grasp.
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The mounting political drama loomed over other Olympic story lines, including the participation of Russian athletes despite a ban after a doping scandal, and the appearance of the first Nigerian contingent in the Winter Games with a women's bobsled team.
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BASEL, Switzerland — Strapped into a cockpit-style seat, eyes peering through heavy black goggles, you can almost feel the G-force as you hurtle down the bobsled run, seat rattling and shoulders slamming as you tilt through violent twists and turns.
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Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga are expected to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, next year as the first-ever African representatives — male or female — to qualify for the Winter Games in the sport of bobsled.
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As Taylor, 33, later explained, she had raced in the women's bobsled event at the 2018 Winter Olympics while dealing with a "small tear" in her left achilles tendon that she sustained just days before traveling to South Korea for the Games.
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In April 2017, the trio had a major homecoming to promote the winter sport in the country, and show Nigerians what bobsled is and how they too can train for a cold-weather sport, even if they live in a warm-weather place.
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Check out the clip above ... you see Cynthia belting out a rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine," Taron and Sistine Stallone putting medals on the 2014 bobsled team and Matt Bomer presenting a cake to diver Greg Louganis for his 60th bday this month.
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Red Stripe, which is based in the nation's capital of Kingston, has supplied a sled for the Jamaican bobsled team to use in competition early next week after the dramatic departure of driver coach Sandra Kiriasis left the team without a sled.
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Widely credited with building Russia's bobsled program into an international contender after the team had been in decline for years, Mr. Bedzhamov is a prime example of how well-connected businessmen have been used to finance national teams under Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin.
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"I basically got into the sport of bobsledding in 2015 after a little bit of a hiatus from athletics," Adigun tells PEOPLE, noting that the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, the governing body for the sport, was looking to grow with more women's sports teams.
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Why, when I drop two bobsleds of unequal weights off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, do they hit the ground at the same time, but when I put them both at the top of a bobsled track, the heavier one gets to the bottom first?
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A low-slung rocking chair from 1962, carved from warmly stained oak and finished with stretched leather, looks as aerodynamic as a bobsled; a bench of stained black ash, with two swooping seats attached to intersecting cones, was made in 2015 with computer assistance.
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Steven Holcomb, a brawny three-time Olympic medalist who overcame a disease that threatened his vision, and then in 2010 piloted a four-man bobsled team to the United States' first gold medal in the event in 62 years, was found dead on Saturday.
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The Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations cited four major competitions that had been moved out of Russia for the 2016-17 season after an outcry from athletes, including the cross-country skiing World Cup finals and the bobsled and skeleton world championships.
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Russia's former antidoping lab director told The New York Times this year that cover-ups he participated in at Sochi affected more than a dozen competitors in bobsled and skeleton, a sport in which athletes race headfirst on a sled down an icy track.
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It was the latest in a set of major global sports competitions — including those in bobsled, skeleton and biathlon — to be relocated from Russia after athletes objected to competing there and threatened to boycott, out of dissatisfaction with official responses to the doping scandal.
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Sports Briefing | Winter Sports Jamie Greubel-Poser and Cherelle Garrett of the United States posted the fastest time in both runs to win the gold medal in a women's World Cup bobsled race at Lake Placid, N.Y. Greubel-Poser and Garrett finished in 1 minute 53.48 seconds.
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This year's Team USA Awards, which will air next month, featured a special medal reallocation ceremony for Holcomb and his teammates, who received bronze medals during the 2014 Sochi Olympics in both the two-man and the four-man bobsled events, both of which Holcomb participated in.
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Article of the Day Article: "Sand Between Their Toes, and Blades on Their Feet" Before Reading Watch this short video about the Jamaican bobsled team and their efforts to be the first team from a tropical country to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics.
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On the other hand, many emoji that do meet the search criteria have languished far below the median level of popularity since they were introduced, including scooter, pita with falafel, rhino, tin can of food, coat, fortune cookie, bobsled, pretzel, gloves, vampire, zebra, hedgehog, rockstar/singer, and astronaut.
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Elite Russian athletes have competed in several major sporting events in the United States, like the Boston Marathon and international bobsled and skeleton championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. The inquiry, which originated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, would have to clear several hurdles before charges could be filed.
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Three major global biathlon events are due to take place in Russia immediately after the Winter Olympics, in spite of the fact that the International Olympic Committee directed sports officials to halt their preparations for competitions there or relocate them, as sports like bobsled and skeleton have done.
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The result for 30-year-old Nadezhda Sergeeva, announced by the Russian Bobsled Federation on its website Friday, is a big setback for Russia, which is trying to move past scandalous allegations that its own government led a massive and complex doping program aimed at cheating in the Olympics.
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A new name may have been added to the list of plucky but noncompetitive winter sportsmen — a ledger that includes Eddie the Eagle (Michael Edwards) and the 1988 Jamaican Olympic bobsled team — after Adrian Solano wobbled his way onto and then around the course this week at the Nordic world ski championships in Lahti, Finland.
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Hamlin and Davis were two of eight nominees for flag bearer, each representing the eight winter sports federations (bobsled and skeleton, ski and snowboarding, figure skating, curling, biathlon, hockey, speedskating and luge.) With the final vote coming down to 22018-2244 between Hamlin and Davis, the U.S. Olympic Committee flipped a coin, and Hamlin was the winner, PEOPLE confirmed.
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"We've seen that with many nations, if they have a limited budget and they have to decide between expanding their men's program and starting a women's program, it's typically women that get cut out of the budget," said Darrin Steele, the chief executive of U.S.A. Bobsled and Skeleton and a vice president of the international federation.
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Mooch joins a mall-star cast that includes: O.J. Simpson pal Kato Kaelin, controversial Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, Blossom star Joey Lawrence(!!), Lindsay Lohan's mom and manager Dina Lohan, Mean Girls actor Jonathan Bennett, former wrestler Natalie Eva Marie, former NFL star Ricky Williams, track and bobsled star Lolo Jones, comedian Tom Green, and singers/reality personalities Tamar Braxton and Kandi Burruss.
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It may be perceived by many as blasphemous, but I have always had a difficult time in equating the demonstrated lack of athletic qualities in winter sliding sports, like bobsled, luge and skeleton, that depend more on technology and less on athleticism with those sports that reflect the epitome of strength, agility, endurance and strategy (nordic and Alpine skiing, speed and figure skating, and so on).
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With the arrival of women's bobsled teams from Jamaica and Nigeria, both the first women's teams in the event to qualify for their respective countries, as well as rising stars like the US's Maame Biney, the first black woman on the US speedskating team, and Jordan Greenway, the first black member of the US hockey team, black athletes at the 20183 games are making history before they even compete for medals.
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Anthony Scaramucci — Former White House director of communications/financier Jonathan Bennett — Actor/Producer Tamar Braxton — Singer/TV Personality Kandi Burruss — Singer/TV Personality Tom Green — Comedian Lolo Jones — Olympic track and bobsled star Kato Kaelin — Actor/Host Joey Lawrence — Actor/Producer Ryan Lochte — 12-time Olympic medalist in swimming Dina Lohan — Momager Natalie Eva Marie — Former WWE wrestler/actress Ricky Williams — Former NFL superstar Last season, Hairspray star Marissa J. Winokur defeated Ross Mathews by a shocking 6-3 vote.
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