Sentences with phrase «for bobsledding»

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

Then it's time for a 20 -30-minute nap of no - REM sleep which primes my body and re-energizes it for bobsled training.

I like to use my lifting session as potentiation for the bobsled training session later in the day.

In bodybuilding, I periodized my training volume based on how far out I was from a show, and for bobsled I do the same thing.

For pre-season for bobsled I was at my strongest and lifting at heavy percentages.

There is a lot of stress that goes through your body for bobsled, so the main focus is to try and stay healthy and fuel the body as much as possible so it can have the energy to perform at its best, day in and out.

Although I don't have to be as lean as I do for a bodybuilding competition, I have to stay on top of my diet so that I'm not overweight for bobsled.

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 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.»

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

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.

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.

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 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.

From Victor Oladipo to James Harden, we got some interesting answers for the next great bobsled team.

«We'll even give pin «stock - market» reports» Bulgarian bobsleds are now trading for 16 Swiss downhills,» that sort of thing,» says Roy Fleming, who is a media - relations manager for Coca - Cola.

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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.

Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere, and Akuonma Omega make up the trio of Nigerian women who will be competing in the 2018 games as representatives for the first - ever African — male or female — bobsled team.

The nutrition aspect of both bodybuilding and bobsledding went hand - in - hand for me.

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.

Switching to bobsledding gave me a different perspective, which in turn restored my love for track and my desire to compete.»

And, after using baseball, football, basketball, hockey, horse racing, golf, bobsledding, and even cricket with last year's «Million Dollar Arm», I do give Disney credit for daring to greenlight a script about one of the least popular sports: High School cross country running.

February 23, 2018 • Nadezhda Sergeeva, a bobsled athlete, failed a drug test for a banned heart drug, the Russian Bobsled Federation announced on bobsled athlete, failed a drug test for a banned heart drug, the Russian Bobsled Federation announced on Bobsled Federation announced on Friday.

BMW is using its resources to build a two - man bobsled for the Olympics, however it's not for the German team.

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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).

From swimming with horses, to thrill seekers zip - lining, to bobsledding through the rainforest, viewers will be transported to the very heart of this diverse and adventurous Caribbean island for an unforgettable journey.

The following activities are covered to the lifetime maximum amounts listed below as long as they are engaged solely for leisure, recreation, or entertainment purposes: abseiling, BMX, bobsledding, bungee jumping, canyoning, caving, hang gliding, heli - skiing, high diving, hot air ballooning, inline skating, jet skiing, jungle zip lining, kayaking, mountain biking, parachuting, paragliding, parascending, piloting a non-commercial aircraft, rappelling, rock climbing or mountaineering (ropes and guides to 4500m from ground level), scuba diving (to 50m), skydiving, snorkeling, snow boarding, snowmobiling, snow skiing, spelunking, surfing, trekking, whitewater rafting (to Class V), and wildlife safaris, and windsurfing.

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.

... The coach of Jamaica's women's bobsled team has quit the squad and is demanding reimbursement for the team's sled, which she claims she owns.

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.

Lyndon joined the firm in 2005 when he needed to work eight months of the year in his off - season as he was training to pilot the Canadian Bobsled Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Lyndon played football for five years at the University of Saskatchewan before receiving a call from Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton urging him to give the sport of bobsled a try.