Bobsledding News

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The Canada I two-man bobsleigh team of driver Pierre Leuders and brakeman David MacEachern and the Italy I two-man bobsleigh team of driver Guenther Huber and brakeman Antonio Tartaglia celebrate their joint gold medal win at the Nagano Olympic Games, Feb.

Handout photos from VANOC of Day 7 on the Olympic Torch Relay of sled dogs, Wednesday, November 5, 2009.

Canadian bobsledders, driver Helen Upperton and Jenny Ciochetti, raced their sled to a first-place tie with Germany's Cathleen Martini after the first heat of the Viessmann Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary in November 2007.

There's an old Burmese proverb that says: In time of test, family is best. Kaillie Humphries - Canadian World Cup bobsled pilot - can wax as eloquently about those closest to her as any philosopher.

The official name for the most terrifying patch of track at the Whistler Sliding Centre is Corner 13.

Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse celebrate their second place finish at World Cup bobsleigh at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, B.C., last season.

More than two decades later, the story hasn't changed for the fabled Jamaican bobsled team.

The sixth day of the Olympic torch relay was spent in the most remote native community in all of Canada, a famous town so far north and so far west in the Yukon that it's almost off the map.

Canada's best bobsleigh athletes were in the spotlight this week at the Whistler Sliding Centre, feeling the eyes of the international teams in town for the designated training weeks upon them as they take to the Whistler track.

The Jamaican bobsled team has yet to qualify for next year's Winter Olympics, but they're in Canada this week, hoping to learn the secrets of the Whistler Sliding Centre in the lead up to the Games.

The Jamaican bobsled team has yet to qualify for next year's Winter Olympics, but they're in Canada this week, hoping to learn the secrets of the Whistler Sliding Centre in the lead-up to the Games.

Britain's top sports body has turned to the International Olympic Committee to resolve a dispute with Vancouver 2010 organizers over what the U.K. officials consider unfair restrictions on video cameras to be used by their athletes for analyzing tactics and ice conditions during February's Winter Games.

ABOUT T.J. BURNS ... My name is T.J. Burns and I am an Olympic hopeful for the 2010 Olympics.

For most people who grew up riding Flexible Flyers, the true value these wooden sleds offer is a key back into childhood memories and nostalgia for a simpler time.

John Napier will be representing his country abroad soon enough. One of the locations could be Vancouver.

So far in 2009, the number of South Carolinians wanting to pack heat nearly has doubled over the previous year as people worry about violent crime and feel threatened by partisan politics.

The Canadian World Cup teams in bobsled and skeleton were unveiled Wednesday morning in a ceremony at Calgary's Old City Hall.

Individual tryouts are complete for U.S. bobsled and skeleton Olympic hopefuls. Starting Monday, it's about becoming a team.

Edmonton bobsled star Pierre Lueders poses with a group of school kids at Canada Olympic Park yesterday.