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Follow your little grom on their tree line and you may find yourself on a tight point-’em-or-die bobsled track.

There aren’t any bobsled or skeleton tracks in Africa, Australia, or South America.

This year in Beijing there are 15 sports ranging from bobsled, to ice hockey, to snowboarding.

Gravity is what powers the sleds down the ice-covered tracks in bobsled, luge and skeleton events.

Like Formula One car racing, traditional bobsled teams spend huge sums to build custom sleds that adhere to equipment standards handed down by the IOC.

And Vladimir “Vladi” Putin was fascinated by the two-man bobsled event.

The Jamaican Bobsled team is back, having already won about twenty-three golds in Kickstarting.

With that kind of dough, he could almost buy a ticket to watch the Jamaican Bobsled team.

It has been 12 years since Jamaica has entered a team in a bobsled event.

"I knew it would be hard, but it was definitely difficult, for sure," Jones said of her segue from track to bobsled.

She was thrown from Short and Longs bobsled one night and had to be helped home.

There we bought a bobsled and put the wagon box on it, adding a strong canvas top.

But at the top, when the bobsled had been turned for the next trip, he took the forward position.

Halfway down the slide, round the first bend, the long bobsled spun into a straightaway that was partially blocked.

They found Bert and Charlie busy making a bobsled in the back yard.