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I spent New Year’s Eve in St. Moritz — which is weird for me. I don’t like cold weather, I’m not an especially gifted skier (read: awkward-as-heck skier), and starting the new year off in ...
Traditional bobsledding tracks are expensive—the track built for the 2006 Turin Olympics cost $100 million alone and $1 million each year to maintain afterwards.
— -- SOCHI, Russia -- So you watch the bobsled on TV and you say, "Damn, that looks like fun. That looks easy. You jump in a sled and just let gravity do the rest. I could do that.'' Ummm ...
In Olympic bobsledding, hundredths of a second can mean the difference between winning and losing. For the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the U.S. team might be just that much faster thanks to new ...
Then the International Bobsledding and Tobogganing Federation chose Cortina’s twisting (twelve curves) Ronco run as the site for last week’s 1966 championships.
Age: 36 Previous Olympics: 2010, 2014, 2018 Events: Monobob, two-woman Facebook | Instagram | Twitter. Kaillie Humphries, a two-time Olympic champion from Canada, switched to representing the United ...
Athletes work seemingly uphill to have bobsledding accepted at the Paralympics Teams from a dozen counties are leaving blood on the ice in their quest to get bobsled and skeleton on the Paralympic ...
ALBANY — Although the good citizens of St. Moritz and Davos in Switzerland dispute it, Albany has staked a credible claim as the birthplace of bobsledding. With the sport due to receive its ...
Spend the night in The Lodge at Bryce Canyon, a historic Southwestern Utah landmark that began welcoming guests in 1925. Rest well before joining a guided snowshoe hike during which park rangers ...
Bobsledding, figure skating, hockey: See photos of the first Winter Olympics a century ago. Camille Fine. USA TODAY. The Olympic Winter Games are celebrating 100 years of sport on snow and ice ...
From rock climbing to jumping on a pogo stick, Snypes does it all today, including bobsledding! Oh, and by the way, he is missing his left arm. "I've always played sports, ...