bobsled
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The dangers of sliding sports took center stage at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics when 11 crashes occurred in two days of bobsled training ahead of the Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
Anschutz owns the Home Depot Center, where the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams train.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
At first she resisted, but last summer O’Brien decided she needed a rest from track “and bobsled seemed like a good alternative, so I took it up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
"I am aware of the diatribe the commentator directed towards the Israeli bobsled team on the Swiss Olympic broadcast today," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
A great delight it was to feel that certainty again, to know that I could steer my fortune and the world’s chance like a bobsled down the steep, dangerous hour.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
For all of Team USA’s success with the BMW bobsleds — including four medals in Sochi — the partnership only yielded elite World Cup-caliber sleds.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022
Cold-weather sports require gloves and goggles and helmets, duffel bags bulging with hockey sticks, rifles for biathletes and four-man bobsleds the size of grand pianos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
Canada has typically had three women’s and two men’s bobsleds in World Cup events this season.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
In November 2014, Meyers Taylor and Humphries each piloted four-man bobsleds in a World Cup race.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
And he stood up, at least three times, sled pressed tightly against his chest, and made imaginary dashes down the park toboggan, outspeeding even the long bobsleds as the ice flew beneath him.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely
She told Olympics.com she’s returned to bobsledding in a “very different body,” but she feels motherhood has given her a new level of strength.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
Indeed, Herschel Walker’s athletic record made him a state icon—he’s not only a former college football and NFL star, but he once also competed on the Olympic bobsledding team.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2022
And what she eventually realized was that her switch to track as a high school freshman was — unbeknownst to her — preparing her for bobsledding.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
There was yet another battle — this one within the sport of bobsledding — that she and Meyers Taylor waged together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
"I used to do a lot of bobsledding myself," said the professor, who was well liked by nearly all the cadets.
From The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer
