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German bobsledders close dominant Games with four-man gold, silver
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Germany's Johannes Lochner collected his second bobsled gold of the Milan Cortina Olympics in the four-man event on Sunday, completing a hugely dominant week for the sliding superpower.,Compatriot and double-defending champion Francesco Friedrich took silver but Germany's...
Super-vet and rookie combine for US in search of bobsleigh gold
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Medal-laden Elana Meyers Taylor is in her fifth Olympics while Jadin O'Brien had barely seen, let alone touched, a bobsleigh until late last year, but this week that unlikely U.S. pairing will be targeting gold in the Two-Woman event in Cortina.,Meyers Taylor, 41, arrived...
Another Empty Congressional Hearing About Sexual Abuse In Sports Came And Went
With many of the cameras and reporters gone, the fourth Senate hearing about sexual abuse in Olympic sports took on a different tone. There was no yelling. There was no demanding of answers. CEOs of the organizations that oversee Olympic sports had a few chuckles. The grandstanding was gone, just th...
Jamaican Bobsled Team's Olympics In Jeopardy Over Sled Drama And Coach Quitting
The Jamaican women’s bobsled team is set to make their Olympic debut next week, 30 years after the Jamaican men’s bobsled team made their historic debut at the Calgary Olympics. That’s the hope, anyway. Just a week before their first heats, the team has been engulfed by drama, and may not even have ...
Curve 9 Has Begun Claiming Its Victims
There are 16 turns on the track at the Alpensia Sliding Center, used for luge, skeleton, and bobsled at the 2018 Olympics. And for a full year now, since the track was first used for World Cup events, riders have been warning that medal chances (and bodies) would be made or broken in Curve 9. It has...
Thirty Years After <i>Cool Runnings</i>, Jamaican Women Qualify For Olympic Bobsled
Thirty years after a team of Jamaican bobsledders inspired a Disney movie with their unlikely appearance at the Calgary Winter Olympics, the country will send its first female bobsled team to compete in Pyeongchang....
Nigerian Women Become First African Bobsled Team Ever To Qualify For Olympics
Three women representing Nigeria became the first-ever African bobsled team to qualify for the Olympics, and the country’s first-ever representatives at the Winter Olympics, when they finished their required fifth qualifying race in Calgary today....
Bobsledding Gold Medalist Steven Holcomb Found Dead At Olympic Training Center
Bobsledder Steve Holcomb was found dead in his room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., yesterday at the age of 37....
Two Teens Die After Sneaking Onto Olympic Bobsled Track And Trying To Sled On It
Last night, eight teens snuck into Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park (where the 1988 Winter Olympics were held) with a sled, and crashed while trying to take it down the bobsled track. According to emergency services personnel, they crashed into a wall separating the luge and bobsled tracks, and two twi...
Canada 3 Sled Flips Upside Down, Slides Across Finish Line On Its Side
The Canada 3 sled lost control coming out of turn 11 on its second run of the four-man bobsled competition, getting slightly airborn as it headed into the next turn. It then flipped and slid to the finish with the crew wedged between the sled and the ice. The whole team eventually walked away from ...
Brazilian Bobsled Goes Airborne
Sometimes, Winter Olympians from the tropics don't give us a heartwarming (and maybe overrated) tale of overcoming adversity. Sometimes, they simply inspire wonder, as in, how did this pilot not die?...
Jamaican Bobsled Theme Song Apparently Syncs With Course Length
The Jamaica Tourist Board claims that "The Bobsled Song" will sync up with the length of the course when the Jamaican bobsleigh team does its run. The two-man event starts at 11:15 a.m., so test it out for yourself....
Track Worker Struck, Injured By Bobsled
A worker on the track at the Sanki Sliding Center was struck by a sled just before the start of two-man bobsled training, and taken away in an ambulance. Hospital officials said the worker is alive, and in a statement the IOC's president said he suffered "a broken leg and maybe a concussion." ...
Bobsledder Who Got Stuck In Sochi Bathroom Is Now Stuck In Elevator
Damn, Johnny Quinn just cannot catch a break. Just two days after having to Incredible Hulk his way through a bathroom door that wouldn't open, the American bobsledder has once again found himself victimized by the jankiness of the Sochi Olympic facilities. ...
U.S. Bobsledder Gets Locked In Bathroom, Destroys Door To Escape
What is going on with these Sochi bathrooms, man? Johnny Quinn, a pusher on the U.S. bobsled team, had an appearance on The Today Show this morning but before that, he had to take a shower. The door somehow locked or got jammed while he was in there so he was trapped inside the bathroom without a ph...
Why USA Bobsled Needs Lolo Jones
Earlier this week, to the surprise of many, Lolo Jones was named to the Olympic bobsled team, despite having only been in the sport for a few years. The teammates she beat out and many independent observers believe it's a conspiracy on the part of USA Bobsled and NBC. Jones is there not because she'...
Jamaica's Bobsleigh Savior Could Be The Olympics' Best Story
The Jamaican team is one good weekend away from qualifying a two-man sled for the Sochi Olympics, in what would be the island nation's first appearance since the 2002 games. They just might not have the money....
Lolo Jones Live-Tweets Getting Drug-Tested During Her Birthday Party
Lolo Jones turned 31 last night. She also got a surprise visit from the PED police, which wasn't supposed to be part of the celebration. But Jones refused to let that spoil her good time, so she brought 'em along!...
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Source: Lolo Jones Fights With Daughter Of Bobsled Official [Updates]
According to one athlete with knowledge of the situation, Olympic hopefuls Lolo Jones and Aja Evans were involved in a fight at a Lake Placid bar last Friday night that pitted the two against the stepdaughter of a US Bobsled and Skeleton Federation hall of famer....
Lolo Jones Won A Gold Medal (In World Championship Bobsled)
Lolo Jones still has yet to win a gold medal in the Olympics, but today, she added a new and extra random addition to her small pile of world championship medals—she now has two golds for 60m hurdles, and one for the combined bobsled-skeleton team event at the Swiss winter world championships. She w...