Meet her and learn how fast she sped down an icy
bobsled track!!
That sort of attitude has led to him whipping down
a bobsled track, running several marathons and entering a local qualifier for the infamous Nathan's hot dog eating contest (he missed the mark by three dogs).
Gov. David Paterson is in Lake Placid today to sign DWI prevention legislation into law and attend the addition of
the bobsled track to the National Register of Historic Places.
Not exact matches
«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.
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.»
All three women are former
track and star athletes who banded together to become founding members of Nigeria's first
bobsled team.
Switching to
bobsledding gave me a different perspective, which in turn restored my love for
track and my desire to compete.»
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.