Olympics Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh is a winter sport in which a two or four member team use a sled on an iced track. Bobsleigh is a high speed and risky sport in which a number of fatal accidents have taken place. This sport is exclusively played in Northern Hemisphere, specially in Europe, North America and Russia. Germany has been the most successful nation in bobsleigh.

Yes! At the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, UT, you can take a ride down the Olympic track in a bobsled. A professional driver can take down 3 passengers. You go about 80 mph and feel 5 g-forces! It's awesome!

Vonetta Flowers was the first African American to win gold in the Winter Olympics when she teamed with Jill Bakken to win the two-woman bobsled event at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Shani Davis was the first African American to win gold in a Winter Olympics individual event when he won the 1,000 meter speed skating event at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin.

Air resistance is extremely important in speedskating. A race can be decided on one one-hundredths of a second, so being as aerodynamic as possible is very important to reduce drag and skate faster.

You need to be good at balancing. Being able to shift your weight and not go too high.

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The team from Jamaica.

The exploits of the Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics inspired the making of the film "Cool Runnings".

The NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine. That is all I will tell you, but look it up. Geoff is probably one of the biggest innovators and at the least one of the US bobsled teams biggest supporters.

Or did you mean who in the bobsled is important? In that case every man is important on the sled.

The skeleton and bobsleigh are different. The skeleton is only ridden by one person laying on his stomach going down the track head first. The bobsleigh is ridden by one, two, or four people; one person rides the sleigh laying on his back going feet first; two and four people ride the bobsleigh sitting down.

A bobsled. A helmet. A lycra-spandex suit. An iced surface. Courage.

Before 1954, bobsledders were big and bulky. Now, bobsledders are supposed to be in between light and heavy, so they are muscular and agile

St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun, officially known as the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz-Celerina

Olympic bobsleighers are picked after they have meets to determine the best people in the group.

The back member of bobsled is in charge of brake controlling.

The shape of a bob sleigh is an long skinny oval with wheels and a hole on top for your body.

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