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From Women's Hockey to the First African Bobsledding Team: Five Stories to Watch During the PyeongChang Winter Olympics

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.

Seun Adigun decided to change that, as she explained to the New York Times Magazine in January, describing this revelation while she was training with the U.S. bobsled team.

«Crates are held up in L.A.,» a U.S.A. Bobsled & Skeleton rep said.

«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.

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.

Bobsledding is popular in southeast Asia, while Australia is more fond of snowboarding.

More recent projects include the design of the two - man bobsleds used by the U.S. team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

One thing to know: The Nigerian women's bobsled team is not just Nigeria's first - ever bobsled team, but the first African nation to have a bobsled team in the Olympics.

He was drawn to luge over bobsledding because the line was shorter and you could get more runs in.

Seven Russian bobsled and skeleton athletes banned by the IOC were cleared to compete in World Cup events, the CAS confirmed Thursday.

As the founder of Bobsled Marketing, she has helped dozens of crowdfunding campaigns on - board to Amazon after their funding...

we have a bobsled team?

While Elana Meyers Taylor is going to PyeongChang as a member of the women's bobsled team, her husband, Nic, will be there to play multiple roles: both an alternate for the US men's bobsled team, and Elana's trainer and biggest supporter.

After 10 years of trying and failing to qualify for the Summer Olympics in track and field, Adeagbo was inspired by watching the Nigerian bobsled team to try a winter sport instead, intrigued by the possibility of «making history.»

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

Hungry for athletic «redemption,» she then switched to bobsledding, building her own training sled from scratch.

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.

Yet Flowers became the first black American to win a gold medal for bobsledding in the Winter Olympics.

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

All sixteen of these people had interests that were typical of males, such as hunting, ice hockey, karate, and bobsledding.

Who would think that residents of a tropical island with nothing resembling snow, ever, could make it to the Winter Olympics on a bobsled?

Linda's Guinness Ice Cream in honor of the Jamaican bobsled team at Spicebox Travels (use Green's Discovery or whatever gf beer you like)

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.

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

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.

May need to check out bobsledding at this year's games.

# 24 Travis Bell CENTENNIAL Won gold medal in four - man bobsled at 1999 America's Cup; won silver in two - man; first rookie to place in top 10 at world snowmobiling championships.

While Lolo had success at LSU it has yet to translate into success in the Olympics and now she is trying her hand at making the U.S. Women's Bobsled team.

It was Nelson who taught the marquis how to bobsled.

BOBSLED — SWITZERLAND II, driven by Erich Sch √ § rer, won the world four - man championships with a four - run combined time of 3:16.28, in Koenigsee, West Germany.

Regazzoni, always a good drag racer, beat everybody down the 12 - degree bobsled run of Linden Avenue.

Edgar Seymour, the engineer, and Dr. Arthur Tyler, the physicist, brought their 360 - pound bobsled down from Rochester, N.Y. the other day and set it up in the wind tunnel at the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, College of Engineering, New York University.

The bobsled cowling may, therefore, be altered so that when they are streaking downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, during the 1956 winter Olympics a piece of string held between them will point in the proper aerodynamic direction, which is backward.

BOBSLEDDING — The West German team of HORST FLOTH and JOSEF (Pepi) BADER defeated teams from 12 other countries to take the world two - man bobsled title in 5:05.39 for four heats over the St. Moritz, Switzerland run.

Last Friday, Dean rode down the Sarajevo bobsled run on the British four - man sled.

Nine years removed from Jamaica, where he was as likely to see a bobsled run as an American football game, and 68 inches removed from the ground, Marley recorded 59 tackles last season while backing up senior Jessie Armstead at outside linebacker.

Up until now Cool Runnings, the 1993 film about the»88 Jamaican bobsled team, has been just about the lone touchstone of the sport for most Americans.

Watching the 1992 Albertville Games, Bodine was dismayed at the poor quality of America's sleds — the team would buy used ones from European competitors — so he started the nonprofit Bo - Dyn Bobsled Project.

That is especially true in bobsledding, a sport in which waiting for visual cues can hamper a driver's reaction time.

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.

It's a Monday night in mid-October, and bobsled season has just begun, so where else would the world four - man champions be but in Lake Placid, N.Y., swapping sledding stories at Lisa G's bar?

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

«It usually takes three years for an athlete to get to this level,» says U.S. Bobsled head coach Brian Shimer, a five - time Olympian.

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.

BOBSLEDDING — Italy's Eugenio Monti confounded experts at world bobsled championships at Cortina, Italy, by steering Italy's four - man team to.2 - second victory over favored German and U.S. teams with aggregate time of 5:04.75 for four heats.

Next thing you know, Jamaica will have a bobsled team.

It is about noon, and we turn up the next valley to La Plagne, where the bobsled and luge events will be held.

Could Salt Lake City have bobsled runs and ski races under the lights, in prime time?