bobsled
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Flav was an official sponsor of the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams at the Milan-Cortina Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Most of the Jamaican team in Cortina is made up of sprinters who couldn’t catch Usain Bolt, so they climbed in a bobsled instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 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
After the Dutch team’s out-of-nowhere success in Vancouver, other countries began calling Eurotech about making their bobsleds, and by the 2014 Sochi Games, the company was working with both the Netherlands and Canada.
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
Bodine helped create the “Bo-Dyn” project, one where the same principles that went into auto racing were turned into ways to build faster bobsleds.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
Bobsleigh, luge and skeleton are among the fastest of Olympic sports, with bobsleds reaching speeds in excess of 150kph.
From Reuters ● Jan. 8, 2018
I hate winter for all the fun with skates and bobsleds.
From The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by Lieut. Howard Payton
But it’s also realistic to believe that Trinidad, just by being in the competition, is furthering something of a revolution in the Winter Olympics in general, and in bobsledding in particular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
While all share the commonality of being unconventional competitors in a space where they’re considered to be a rarity, bobsledding and ski jumping originated as European sports.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2024
Kaysha Love is trying to pull off perhaps the most difficult transition in bobsledding, the one where a push athlete tries to become a driver.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
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
That adventurous afternoon on Pendragon Hill was the last chance the girls of Lakeview Hall had that term for bobsledding.
From Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways by Annie Roe Carr
