Sentences with phrase «bobsled world»
«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.
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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.
Seven Russian bobsled and skeleton athletes banned by the IOC were cleared to compete in World Cup events, the CAS confirmed Thursday.
# 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
In 2017, Governor Cuomo announced that Lake Placid was chosen to host the 2019 International Children's Games, and the 2021 Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships.
Although a lot of time and effort goes into competing that I wasn't expecting when I first got into bobsledding, I wouldn't change it for the world.
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.