Francesco Friedrich of Germany wins 16th world bobsled championship, taking 4-man in Lake Placid
Friedrich capped another year when he was the best bobsledder in the world, winning medals in all 17 of his major ...
Cortina's controversial Olympic sliding track slated for test runs by 60 athletes next week
The track's essential structure is done. Construction workers celebrated Sunday’s milestone by laying down a branch of an ...
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Shul runnings: The Israeli bobsled, skeleton racing teams with Olympic ambitions
At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Yanqing National Sliding Center, known as The Dragon, had a 40-story vertical drop over its length of 1,600 meters. In the bobsled (aka “bobsleigh ...
Francesco Friedrich adds to bobsled legend with another World Championships sweep
German Francesco Friedrich won a record-extending 16th men's bobsled world title, while Laura Nolte led a German medals sweep ...
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Germans hold 1-2-3 spots midway through 2-man world bobsled championship, with US in medal hunt
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Take the season's biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsled, skeleton and luge, meaning either the ...
At the bobsled and skeleton world championships, some moms might make their way to the podium
The latest addition to the list of amenities available to athletes at the bobsled and skeleton world championships is a room ...
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Jamaica's bobsled team aims to make history in Lake Placid
Perhaps you remember the underdog story of Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. Perhaps you at least remember the Hollywood movie it inspired. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “COOL RUNNINGS”) DOUG ...
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Friedrich wins 16th bobsleigh world title, taking 4-man in Lake Placid
It was Germany's 11th time sweeping the medals in a world championship or Olympic bobsleigh race. It also happened last week in the two-man competition. Germany claimed 73 of the 103 medals ...