Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled
Francesco Friedrich's four-man German bobsleigh team won gold on Sunday with their victory at the Olympic Sliding Centre completing Germany's sweep of the bobsleigh gold medals. The German unit, piloted by ...
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Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled
A second Russian athlete failed a doping test at the Pyeongchang Games, a day before the IOC's executive board is to decide whether to reinstate the country for Sunday's closing ...
Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled
U.S. bobsledders pay emotional tribute to late teammate Steven Holcomb
United States bobsledder Steven Holcomb's untimely death last year shocked the fraternity and brought them closer, members of the team said on Friday. Holcomb, 37, who came back from a suicide ...
Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled Feb 6, 2018
Jamaica's national bobsled team has decided not to use bobsleds supplied by a group of craftsmen mainly in Tokyo's Ota Ward, known as a shitamachi working-class area, in the upcoming Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea. The promotion committee for the Shitamachi Bobsleigh Project said ...
Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled Oct 5, 2016
Jamaica's Japan-made 'Shitamachi Special' bobsleigh unveiled
A new bobsleigh model developed by about 60 small factory operators in Tokyo for the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation was unveiled Wednesday in the Japanese capital. A committee promoting the "Shitamachi Bobsleigh" project showed the new "Shitamachi Special" for two riders, painted green, yellow and black ...
Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled Feb 19, 2014
A U.S. bobsledder who was not chosen for the Sochi Games calls the selection process "corrupt" and questions why Lolo Jones received a spot on the women's Olympic roster. Chuck Berkeley, who made the 2010 Vancouver Games team and was on the World Cup roster ...
Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled Feb 18, 2014
Winless in the last three years in two-man bobsledding, Alexander Zubkov picked the perfect time and place to put that streak to an emphatic end. At the Olympics. On home ice. No one was even close, either. The 39-year-old Russian — who carried his nation's flag into ...
Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled Feb 11, 2014
Amanda Bird, the U.S. bobsled and skeleton spokeswoman, is seeking to adopt a puppy from a shelter established by aluminum billionaire Oleg Deripaska in the Russian city hosting the Winter Olympics. Bird, who was a competitive bobsled and skeleton athlete for more than 10 years, ...
Olympics / Winter Olympics / Bobsled Feb 8, 2014
The website of Canadian bobsled racer Justin Kripps has been blocked in Russia. When viewed in Russia, including at the Sochi Games, the site displays a notice in Russian saying access has been restricted and that it could be for a range of reasons, including ...
Bobsled Feb 6, 2014
Everything's cool and running with Jamaica's bobsled team. They're back inside the Olympic rings, and back on the track. After their equipment was delayed in arriving to the Sochi Games, driver Winston Watts and his teammates got in their first two runs down the Sanki Sliding ...
Bobsled Feb 4, 2014
Lolo Jones is telling the story about how she became a bobsledder, her words becoming difficult to decipher as she tries to keep herself from crying. So she wraps the tale up quickly, her eyes welling with tears. She shouts the four words: "They had ...
Bobsled Jan 28, 2014
Lauryn Williams and Lolo Jones have been selected for the U.S. bobsled team that will compete in next month's Sochi Olympics. They are now positioned to join a group of eight other Americans who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Games. Williams is ...