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Bobsleigh is an event in the Winter Olympic Games where a two- or four-person team drives a specially designed sled down an ice track, with the winning team completing the route with the fastest time.
Bobsled team members from Germany-2 (orange and white), USA-1, (center row in blue) and USA-2 wave to the crowd after receiving their newly awarded medals during a ceremony in Salt Lake City for the men's four-man bobsled event in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Women's bobsleigh competition began in the US in 1983 with two demonstration races in Lake Placid, New York, one held in February and the second held during the World Cup races in March 1983. Two-woman bobsleigh made its Olympic debut at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Bobsleigh is also contested at American, European, and World Cup championships.
The men's team debut in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games four-man bobsleigh in Calgary, Alberta, [1] was received as underdogs in a cold weather sport represented by a nation with a tropical environment. Jamaica returned to the Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsleigh in 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2014, and 2022; a women's team debuted in 2018. [2]
Lori Susan "Lolo" Jones [1] [4] [5] (born August 5, 1982) is an American hurdler and bobsledder who specializes in the 60-meter and 100-meter hurdles.She won three NCAA titles and garnered 11 All-American honors while at Louisiana State University.
The skeleton originated in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as a spinoff of the tobogganing sport pioneered by the British on the Cresta Run.Although skeleton "sliders" use equipment similar to that of Cresta "riders", the two sports are different: while skeleton is run on the same tracks used by bobsleds and luge (which are sufficiently 'closed' that a participant is highly unlikely to be ejected ...
A total of four bobsleigh events were held, between 4 and 20 February 2022. In July 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially added the women's monobob event to the program, increasing the total number of events to four. [1] The IOC also transferred six quotas from the men's events to the women's.
Three bobsleigh events were competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics, at Utah Olympic Park.The competition took place between February 16 and February 23, 2002. [1] [2]For the first time since 1932, Olympic bobsleigh added a new event, with the first ever women's competition, won by Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers of the United States.