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	ESPN.com - Fan Guide
		The four-man bobsled was in the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
		Bobsled tracks are typically about 1,200 to 1,300 meters and drop about 120 meters from start to finish.
		As in bobsled, gravity takes over, and the racers try to maintain momentum by taking a smooth line through the turns and staying away from the sides in the straightaways.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/winter02/bobsled/feature?id=1301776 (958 words)

	Bobsled, skeleton have had long ride through history - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		At first, bobsleds were steered by pulling on ropes, and the sleds had no brakes.
		The world's first bobsled club was founded in St. Moritz in 1897, and the FIBT says that spurred the growth of the sport in winter resorts throughout Europe.
		Bobsled and skeleton runs are the same length for both genders.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,50000294,00.html (772 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Bobsledding Works"
		Bobsleds have the same basic components whether they are built to hold two or four athletes.
		The FIBT has standards for all new bobsled runs, which must also be usable for luge and skeleton races.
		Most of the first bobsled runs were snow-covered roads, and for years it was a popular recreational sport, particularly for the wealthy.
	entertainment.howstuffworks.com /bobsled.htm/printable (2553 words)

	Bobsleigh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Luge, Skeleton, and Bobsled all originated in the mid-late nineteenth century as a indirect result of boredom by the well-to-do English tourists crossed with the successful marketing and vision of hotelman Caspar Badrutt in the mineral spa town of St Moritz, Switzerland.
		Bobsleighs (Bobsled) so they could carry along a loved one; longterm, after a couple more years of happy pedestrian peril, he built them a special track for their activities—the world's first natural ice half-pipe in about 1870.
		United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, the national governing body for the sports of bobsled and skeleton in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobsled (1193 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Everything You Need to Know About Bobsled
		The first racing sleds were made of wood but were soon replaced by steel sleds that came to be known as bobsleds, so named because of the way crews bobbed back and forth to increase their speed on the straightaways.
		The exploits of the Jamaican team became the gist of a movie, "Cool Runnings," and their training was financed by a beer company and a "secret admirer." At Lillehammer, the Jamaicans finished 14th, their best finish and ahead of both sleds from the United States.
		Shimer was the defending World Cup champion in the four-man, but finished a disappointing 13th-place finish in the two-man, and his four-man sled was disqualified because the bobsled's runners were too warm, the first time in Olympic history that a team has been disqualified for such a thing.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/bobsled/articles/bobsled.htm (1179 words)

	Famous Bobsled Teams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The world of bobsledding claims unprecedented fame in that the sport’s most famous bobsled team is a losing team: the Jamaican bobsled team.
		The Jamaican bobsled team didn't garner gold but did speed ahead of the United States, Russia, Italy and France to 14th place in the four-man race, and past Sweden to 10th place in the two-man race.
		If this bobsled team can edge its way past teams that have competed in the sport since the first Winter Olympics, then that says something: it says trying – not so much winning – is all the more worth it.
	www.bobsledrecords.com /History/Famous-Bobsled-Teams (334 words)

	Bobsled or Bobsleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bobsleds were raced on icy grounds and passes.
		The bobsled team's success is depends on four factors: the speed of the start, the pilot's ability to drive, the condition of the runners, and the aerodynamics of the sled.
		Bobsled got its name because riders had to "bob" forward and backward to get the bobsled started down the track.
	2002.uen.org /html/sports/lessons/bobsled.html (1942 words)

	Israeli Bobsled Team
		The Israeli Bobsled Federation is proud and honored to be part of this movement and its goals.
		In addition to a passion for excelling in bobsled, John and Aaron and David are committed to providing the youth of Israel the opportunity to train and compete in this sport.
		In 2003, IBT was sanctioned by the international governing body of bobsled, the Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT) and officially recognized by the Israel Olympic Committee.
	www.israelibobsled.com /about/summary.html (339 words)

	Thredbo \| Things to Do \| Summer \| Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Thredbo Bobsled is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
		With 700m of luge style track the bobsled twists and turns its way down the mountain whilst you control the speed with a brake on your cart.
		The bobsled is open from 10am to 5pm* 7 days a week weather permitting.
	www.thredbo.com.au /thingstodo/summer/activities.asp?ref=1 (152 words)

	Mt. Lebanon native faces uphill battle on Israeli bobsled team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But a two-man bobsled with a Star of David on its side, racing down the track and negotiating the turns at the next Winter Olympics, appears to be a very real possibility.
		The bobsled eventually hits a speed of about 90 mph and serious injuries are a regular occurrence.
		If the bobsled team qualifies in 2006, it would be the first sport other than ice skating in which Israel was represented at the Winter Olympics.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04011/260154.stm (2023 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Nagano@ugusta: US fails in bobsled quest 02/21/98
		He had the medal in his hands and was memorizing the fine print when he forgot to drive the sled through the end of the run Saturday.
		This was the closest the U.S. bobsled team has come to ending a 42-year medal drought.
		This was France's first bobsled medal ever and the first four-man medal for Great Brittain since 1936.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/022198/nag_bobsled.shtml (696 words)

	Bobsled: Kiriasis wins gold medal for Germany - Sports - International Herald Tribune
		CESANA, Italy Sandra Kiriasis steered her Germany 1 sled to the gold medal in the women's bobsled on Tuesday, tightening her country's stranglehold on the sport.
		Bobsled's superpower, Germany, had won gold already in the two-man on Sunday and could complete a hat trick of titles in the four-man event.
		Weissensteiner, gold medalist in luge at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, recovered from an error on the lower section of the track in her last run and ended 1.03 second off the pace.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/02/21/sports/olybobsled.php (333 words)

	OLYMPIC PARKS - Bobsled & Skeleton
		In bobsled, athletes use aerodynamic sleds to race against the clock on an ice-covered, serpentine course.
		Both men's and women's bobsled competitions include a two-person race, consisting of a driver and a brakeman.
		The mission of the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, Inc. is to establish and maintain global pre-eminence in all aspects of bobsled and skeleton competition, as defined by sustained Olympic and other elite international medal results by multiple competitors.
	www.utaholympicoval.com /uop/winter_bobsled_skeleton.asp (308 words)

	NPR - All Things Considered - Howard Berkes Tries the Olympic Bobsled
		So Berkes had fair warning when he was stuffed like a sardine into a blue four-man bobsled, just so he could experience what it's like to hurtle down nearly a mile of ice in 52 seconds.
		As part of a series where NPR reporters attempt some of the games to be featured at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City next month, Berkes took a nighttime bobsled ride at Utah's Olympic Park.
		In fact, we were close to world-class speed and time, faster than any bobsled at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/jan/bobsled/020116.berkes.boblsled.html (643 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Bobsled
		Brian Shimer, trying to break a 42-year Olympic bobsled drought for the United States, just missed a bronze medal in the four-man event, finishing two-hundredths of a second behind France and Britain, who tied for third.
		For the first time, there was a tie for the gold medal in bobsled.
		Oakton's Michael Kohn and his bobsled teammates won't be in Nagano, but the fact they even got to the U.S. Olympic trials in Utah was a minor miracle.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/bobsled.htm (279 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Bobsled
		The German four-man bobsled piloted by Andre Lange won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics, and in doing so has equaled a record held by only four others.
		He was a bobsled medal hopeful three weeks before those games opened, then was suspended for a positive steroid test and banned from the sport in which he was becoming a star.
		There are three bobsled events spread out over six days during the final week of the Games.
	dwb.newsobserver.com /24hour/olympics/winter_games/bobsled (239 words)

	2006 Winter Olympics, Bobsled - Bobsleigh Events, News, Athletes, Teams, Pictures
		Teamwork, agility and breathtaking speeds best define the sport in which two or four-member bobsled teams push together to start down the straights - only to face some of the sharpest turns in sport at speeds of up to 135 km/h (84 mph).
		Bobsleighing (or bobsledding as it is known in the U.S.) began in Switzerland as a gentleman's pursuit among the rich at 19th century ski resorts - the most famous of them at St. Moritz where the first bobsled club was formed in 1897.
		Further development of the sport came with the imposition of weight limits on individual bobsled team members, and as fiberglass replaced the wooden sleds to increase speeds.
	www.chiff.com /olympics/olympics-bobsled.htm (470 words)

	Nebraska Olympian hopes bobsled track leads him to medal stand \| The-Tidings.com
		The four-man bobsled competition was scheduled for Feb. 24-25.
		There was also the possibility Tomasevicz would compete in an earlier two-man event, as bobsled drivers were free to pick the teammate they felt would give them the best speed on the day of the run.
		It's an expensive sport, especially since there are only 16 bobsled tracks in the world, and the closest ones to Nebraska are in Lake Placid, N.Y., and Calgary, Alberta.
	www.the-tidings.com /2006/0217/bobsled.htm (835 words)

	U.S. Bobsled Team
		Due in part to improvements made by Bodine and Cuneo’s non-profit Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project, the U.S. team earned a gold in the woman’s two-person event, and silver and bronze in the men’s four-man event in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
		The pair was armed with decades of racing knowledge they quickly adapted to bobsled racing, but they needed to go beyond old-fashioned hand methods – creating shapes based on their expertise and experience, building a prototype out of foam and plastic, then making the final sled.
		With motorcycles and bobsleds, people are part of the unit since they are exposed to the air.
	www.geomagic.com /en/solutions/us_bobsled.php (1630 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Sports : Winter Sports : Sledding : Bobsled
		Initially just a four-crew event for men, the two-crew sled was added in 1932 and women's bobsled made its Olympic debut at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
		As of 2005 bobsleigh is split into men's and women's events, women compete in two-crew and the men in both two- and four-crew competition.
		United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation The national governing body for the sports of bobsled and skeleton in the USA.
	directopedia.org /directory/Sports-Winter_Sports/Sledding-Bobsled.shtml (992 words)

	CNN/SI - 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games - Bobsled
		He tossed his helmet into his bobsled and gazed in stunned disbelief, then put his head in his hands.
		Christoph Langen of Germany stretched his lead in the four-man bobsled Saturday, laying down the fastest first heat to move 68-hundredths of a second ahead of Marcel Rohner in Switzerland 1.
		Pierre Lueders and Guenther Huber gave their bobsled runners one last check, then looked up at each other thinking the same thought.
	www.cnnsi.com /olympics/events/1998/nagano/sports/oly_bobsled.html (489 words)

	Olympic Bobsled Links
		Bobsled has been part of Olympic competition since the first Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924.
		Bobsled races begin with team members pushing together to achieve maximum speed.
		Everyone then leaps in, and the pilot controls the trajectory into the curves and through the straights reaching speeds of 80 mph over the ice.
	www.sirlinksalot.net /bobsled.html (244 words)

	Winter Olympics Memorable Moments: The Jamaican Bobsled Team
		That was naturally people's first response to the news that the Caribbean nation of Jamaica, best known for reggae and dreadlocks, was sending a bobsled team to the Olympics.
		But despite their seemingly oxymoronic existence, the Jamaican bobsled team made its Olympic debut in 1988 at Calgary.
		Jamaica, after all, has a proud tradition of sprinters, and the four-man bobsled requires some swift feet to get off quickly in the all-important push start.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/winter-olympics-jamaican-bobsled.html (233 words)

	Bobsled
		The beginning of the Bobsled is steep and wash board.
		There's a sign facing the Bobsled trail that tells you that no bikes, dogs, etc. are allowed.
		For a good climb, don't take the bobsled turn off on your way up, but continue to Twin Peaks or further along the trail, catching the bobsled as the final stretch of downhill.
	www.mtbr.com /trails/Utah/Bobsled.html (2141 words)

	Temple Times: LeRoy Alaways’ virtual reality bobsled helps U.S. athletes train for the Winter Olympics
		The VRB simulates everything in a 90-second bobsled run except the lateral G-forces and the cold, said Alaways, who once beat Monaco’s Prince Albert, an Olympic bobsledder, in the VRB.
		Much of their time is spend transporting the bobsled, standing in line, and then waiting for the track to clear and officials to get into place — all for a 90-second run.
		But as the Olympics were starting about three weeks ago, at the request of the USBSF, he dismantled it and moved it from the USBSF to a sports high school in the Lake Placid area so they could train on it and use it in physics experiments.
	www.temple.edu /temple_times/3-2-06/bobsled.html (744 words)

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