Sentences with phrase «olympic bobsled»

When the first trailer for Eddie the Eagle debuted back in December, the lighthearted biopic of British ski - jumper Eddie «The Eagle» Edwards immediately drew comparisons to Cool Runnings, Disney's 1993 film about Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team.

Glaser spoke about the «Labor for Your Neighbor» events held over the long weekend, in which about 1,000 volunteers from around the state — including an Olympic bobsled team — pitched in on the recovery effort.

I went around asking NBA All - Stars who they would put on their Olympic bobsled team, but leave it to Stephen Jackson to actually have the best answer.

The Women's Olympic Bobsled Team, featuring Lolo Jones, showed off their skin - tight aerodynamic suits.

In the end, he had to put on the only completely crueltyfree film he could find, a comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, but I still managed to cry when they crossed the finishing line and wondered whether this transformation into a pathetic weepy female was permanent.

She and her teammates will constitute Africa's first Olympic bobsled team.

Advancements in science, piloting jets, performing neurosurgery, flying to the moon, authoring great novels, Olympic bobsledding and being our parents.

It was there, last March, that he drove his quartet to the first world championship for a U.S. team in 50 years and raised hopes that at the Vancouver Games next February, the U.S. men can win their first Olympic bobsledding gold medal since 1948.

In 1993, Disney's Cool Runnings put Olympic bobsledding in the spotlight with its tale of an underdog team from Jamaica that defied the odds to compete on the same track as the world's greatest athletes, and now Eddie the Eagle seems poised to do the same for ski jumping.

Not exact matches

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.

«Whether we rent or drive our own... we still haven't driven our sleds for this entire week and gotten used to the track,» said Elana Meyers Taylor, two - time Olympic medalist and bobsled world champion.

For those looking to push their boundaries on the mountain beyond sliding on one or two pieces of wood, head over to Olympic Park and take a fantasy camp in bobsled, skeleton, or luge.

While you and your guests celebrate the achievements of amazing Olympic athletes, celebrate the deliciousness of the Bobsled Brisket, Luge Lamb Chops or Speed Skating Salmon that you cooked on your Primo Ceramic Grill.

A self - described combination of «speed, violence and big guys in too - tight clothes,» the U.S. four - man bobsled team is on course to end a 62 - year Olympic gold medal drought

The closeness continued at the highest levels of the game when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, NHL Players» Association director Bob Goodenow and International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel hunkered down last Thursday in a four - man bobsled for a trip down the Olympic course at slap - shot speed.

Steven Holcomb, the longtime U.S. bobsledding star who drove to three Olympic medals after beating a disease that nearly robbed him of his eyesight, was found dead in Lake Placid Saturday.

The Olympic Village won the bids to host the Eighth Annual International Children's Olympic Winter Games in 2019, and the International Bobsled and Skeleton World Championship in 2021.

Seun Adigun (right) and Akuoma Omeoga, from the Nigerian women's bobsled team, wave after an Olympic heat on February 20.

Woodcliff Lake, NJ — February 9, 2018... BMW of North America and the USA Bobsled / Skeleton (USABS) are back together in an attempt to recapture the success they enjoyed at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games when the USA Bobsled Team brought home three medals in a BMW - designed sled.

You probably saw her work during the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia, as BMW designed the sled used by the U.S. bobsled team.

The 106 - room hotel is located in the picturesque Wasatch Mountains, just one mile from Utah Olympic Park (with alpine slides, bobsledding and more) and three miles from Canyons Ski Resort.

Today, visitors can tour Utah Olympic Park, where the international athletes competed, and even experience an 80 - mph bobsled ride.

Lyndon Rush, a commercial sales rep with Royal LePage in Red Deer, Alta., won a bronze medal in four - man bobsled at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.