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Super-vet and rookie combine for US in search of bobsleigh goldCORTINA 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...

Jamaica's Bobsleigh Savior Could Be The Olympics' Best StoryThe 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....

Vladimir Putin Goes Bobsledding, <i>Almost</i> Makes It To The End Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is a manly sort, who's never met a sporting photo op he didn't like. Yesterday he visited a training complex outside Moscow to watch the Russian national team train, but couldn't resist hopping in the two-man sled for a ride, despite his fur-lined parka and complete...

Canadian Bobsleigher Almost Killed By "Wood In His Buttock"

Chris Spring, an Australian bobsleigher who currently pilots a four man crew for Canada, was recently involved in a nasty crash while training in Germany for the World Cup. Three of the four men were airlifted to the hospital after careening into a crash barrier due, it is believed, to a steering e...

Arrested Bobsledder Has Colorful, Checkered Past

American bobsledder Bill Schuffenhauer was arrested, after allegedly assaulting his fiancée. It's another sad episode in the life of a man who always seems to find trouble....