Bobsleigh debuted at the 1924 Winter Games in Chamonix. There was one event in those Games. Strangly enough, the event allowed teams to run a four or five man sled down the course. Switzerland won the gold medal with a four man team of Alfred Neveu, Eduard Scherrer, Heinrich Schlappi, and Alfred Schlappi.
The object of the bobsleigh event is to make it to the finish line in the lowest time.
Bobsled, known in the Olympics as 'bobsleigh', has been an Olympic event since the first Winter Games in 1924.
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A world champion has won first place at their sports "World Championships". An olympic champion has won first place, a gold medal, in their sports olympic competition. While the World Champion can change every year, olympic champions can only be toppled off their perch once every four years.
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Bobsledding was created in Switzerland in the late 19th century when a Swiss resident attached a steering mechanism to a toboggan. The first bobsleigh club was created in 1897.
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