"Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR," said Elana Meyers Taylor, 33, the senior-most member of the U.S. women's Olympic bobsled team. "You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you ...

Imagine a Winter Olympics with no ice and no snow. That's the future that Jan-Anders Mansson, a chemical engineer from Purdue University, sees—particularly for bobsledding tracks.

In Olympic bobsledding, hundredths of a second can mean the difference between winning and losing. For the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the U.S. team might be just that much faster thanks to new ...

The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing ... D.C. on a softball scholarship and had Olympic aspirations, but she failed to make the 2008 U.S. Olympic softball team. She began bobsledding in 2007 ...

Age: 36 Previous Olympics: 2010, 2014, 2018 Events: Monobob, two-woman Facebook | Instagram | Twitter. Kaillie Humphries, a two-time Olympic champion from Canada, switched to representing the United ...

The 2012 Olympics don't begin until July. And the next winter Olympics? 2014. But you can get your fix this winter by planning a vacation to one of 6 Olympic parks, from Lake Placid, New York, to ...

For the first time since the 1998 Winter Games, Jamaica has a four-man bobsled team in the Olympics. Skip to content Skip to site index. ... His journey in bobsledding began in 2019, ...

If the weight of the sleds hasn’t discouraged you from taking up bobsledding, the cost most certainly will. An Olympic-sized bobsled starts around $30,000, with some reports indicating sleds can ...

Women weren't invited to participate in bobsledding competitions until the 2002 Winter Olympics, and 20 years later they now have their own sledding event. The argument in favor of monobob is that ...

Winter Olympics 2014: Bobsled, luge and skeleton sleds get high-tech tune-up 02:24 The Canadians won their second straight gold medal in women's Olympic bobsled, rallying in the final two heats ...

Lolo Jones hasn’t returned to China since 2008, since one bad step in what was then the biggest race of her life cost her an Olympic gold medal. She’s never wanted to go back. Her stance might ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Eddie the Eagle.The Jamaican bobsledding team. Great underdog stories are part of the Olympics’ fabric, giving TV audiences supplemental heroes to cheer on.