Paris (AFP) – Anglo influence is on the increase in Olympic sliding events after decades of domination by the German-speaking nations. That domination largely continues in luge and bobsleigh – but in skeleton the Americans, Canadians and the British are making a name for themselves as they hurl themselves down icy, twisting, banked tracks in [...]
PARIS (AFP) – French winter sport chiefs have called a halt to a bid by their women’s bobsleigh team to qualify for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics after disappointing results and a no-show at a competition last week. Double world athletics champion Eunice Barber had been hoping to join a team whose driver was Canadian-born Lesa [...]
Lake Placid (AFP) – American bobsledder Todd Hays, a 2002 Olympic silver medalist who had been seeking a bid to his fourth Olympics, has been forced to retire, the US Bobsled Federation announced. Hays was diagnosed with an intraparenchymal hematoma following a CT scan after a training crash last Wednesday in Winterberg, Germany. An MRI [...]
Paris (AFP) – Anglo influence is on the increase in Olympic sliding events after decades of domination by the German-speaking nations. That domination largely continues in luge and bobsleigh – but in skeleton the Americans, Canadians and the British are making a name for themselves as they hurl themselves down icy, twisting, banked tracks in [...]
Lake Placid (AFP) – Steven Holcomb and John Napier, the world’s top-ranked four-man bobsled drivers, were among the Olympic squad announced Sunday by the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation. Holcomb and his push team of Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curt Tomasevicz will drive the USA I sled at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter [...]
