Sentences with phrase «of bobsledding»

«I basically got into the sport of bobsledding in 2015 after a little bit of a hiatus from athletics,» Onwumere tells People.

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

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.

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.

Essex County officials aren't releasing final toxicology and autopsy reports on the cause and manner of death of bobsled gold medalist Steve Holcomb, because the late bobsledder's family has threatened to sue the county coroner if he releases details.

Gravity is a big factor in the sport of bobsled.

In the end, the rankings look like the results of a bobsled race — some are separated by only a few tenths or even hundredths of a point.

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.»

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

All three women are former track and star athletes who banded together to become founding members of Nigeria's first bobsled team.

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.

She went from collegiate volleyball player, to becoming a member of the U.S. Skeleton team, to bobsledding where...

I met a lot of athletes there, including a good friend on the bobsled team.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

One of the many returning games from the original Mario Party, Bobsled Run...

A Walt Disney movie, Cool Runnings is based upon the true story of the Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

Occasional moments of humor do work, along with a few nice touches, including a reference to The ’88 Games» other unexpected media sensation, the Jamaican Bobsled Team.

Of the five 2v2 minigames in MP1, that's easily the worst one... Bobsled Run, Handcar Havoc (came back as a MP2 game), Deep Sea Divers, I mean... BOMBSKETBALL!

I let out a good old southern «Yahoo!» riding a toboggan down from the top of the Great Wall of China and again in Jamaica when my bobsled went airborne.

The Caribbean nation of Jamaica sent a bobsled team to the 1988 Winter games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada!

The rear - seat passengers sit in thin little buckets separated by a towering console — from above, a full Rapide S probably looks like a pair of two - man bobsled teams preparing to race.

While BMW was busy waxing their bobsleds at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the engineering team at Volkswagen was making history by crossing the treacherous glacier - covered Sredinny Range as part of a Polar Expedition to promote the Olympics.

What you have here is an $ 81,590 bobsled set at the top of the run.

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.

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).