Extractions: National Guard Bureau Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 A soft-spoken National Guard soldier steered her two-seat bobsled to a gold medal Feb. 19 in the first women's bobsled competition featured in the Olympic Games. Spc. Jill Bakken, 25, of the Utah Army National Guard and the Army World Class Athlete Program and civilian brakeman- pusher Vonetta Flowers of Alabama drove into the pages of Olympic history Bakken's One of 12 Military Athletes at Olympics American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 Gold medal-winning bobsledder Spc. Jill Bakken is just one of a troupe of soldiers competing in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Spc. Shauna Rohbock is an alternate in women's bobsledding. Spcs. Doug Sharp and Mike Kohn and Sgt. Dan Steele are three-quarters of a U.S. four-man bobsled team. Steele is a veteran of 1998 Nagano Winter Games in Japan and is competing in his second Olympics. All three men are in the National Guard. 2nd Lt. Garrett Hines was a brakeman for the two-man bobsled event. His sled missed a bronze medal by .03 of a second. Hines, a member of the Individual Ready Reserve, is also competing in his second Olympics.
Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Bobsled is a winter sport A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter, usually a sport played on snow or ice. See also fall sport, spring sport, summer sport, Winter Olympic Games. See also team sports. Click the link for more information. , also known as bobsleigh (the official name used in the Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games , or Winter Olympics are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. They feature winter sports held on ice or snow, such as ice skating and skiing. The Winter Olympics are held every four years. The most recent celebration was in Salt Lake City, United States in 2002. The Italian city of Turin (Torino) will host the next Winter Olympics in 2006.
Bobsleds Making bobsled and olympic history, Canadian driver Pierre Lueders and Italian driverGuenther Huber tied to the onehundredth of a second at the end of their http://www.cncmagazine.com/archive01/v2i06/v2i06f-bobsleds.htm
Extractions: CNCMagHome Summer 1998 Volume 2, Number 6 story by Scott Rathburn shop photos by Paul Wodehouse Theres the signal. Only 50 feet separate you and the electric eye that starts the timer. You must break the beam within 60 seconds or all is lost, and four years of training will be for naught. To complicate matters, youre standing on ice, and you have to break the beam with a two-man bobsled weighing about 400 pounds. Fortunately, youre not alone. Adrenaline surges as you and your teammate rock the sled back and forth. The clock ticks toward zero. As you sprint for the line, needle-sharp spikes on the bottoms of your shoes dig into the ice. Close on your heels, your colleague urges you on. Once the beam is broken you have 164 feet to build up momentum before jumping into the cramped cockpit of the sled. After a short sprint, you dive in and grab the steering ropes. Your colleague follows quickly and tucks in behind, almost invisible to those looking on.
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Women Already Up To Olympic Speed: The grievance also said the US bobsled federation didn t follow its own rules in 19,olympic history will be made when two women step up on the awards podium http://news.theolympian.com/specialsections/SaltLake2002/20020129/6968.shtml
Extractions: Homepage /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName="" var server="" var channel="" var pageType="" var pageValue="" var prop1="Special Sections" var prop2="SaltLake2002" var prop3="" var prop4="" var prop5="" var prop6="news" var prop7="" var prop8="" var prop9="" var prop10="" var s_code=' ' Salt Lake 2002 Tuesday, January 29, 2002 Women already up to Olympic speed THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Originally published Tuesday, January 29, 2002 Arbitrators. Grievances. A messy breakup. Shattered dreams. Enough story lines to fill a TV soap opera. No, Tonya Harding is not making a comeback. Rather, the U.S. women's bobsled team is in the middle of a messy spat just weeks before making its long-awaited debut at the Salt Lake City Games. Not since Nancy Kerrigan's knee got whacked eight years ago has there been this much pre-Olympic buzz about a women's competition. This time, though, it's without the thugs and telescoping baton. Shortly after the Olympic flame arrived in the U.S. and 10 days before the Olympic bobsled trails, American driver Jean Racine sent a chill through the bobsledding community by dumping her longtime teammate and best friend, Jen Davidson.
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Guard Bobsledder Wins Olympic Gold 19 in the first women s bobsled competition featured in the olympic Games. pusherVonetta Flowers of Alabama drove into the pages of Olympic history. http://www.dcmilitary.com/airforce/andrews/2_09/national_news/14807-1.html
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SIKIDS | NEWS Electric Slide US bobsledders Make history The team nobody talked about before thefirst women s bobsled competition in olympic history was the team everyone http://www.sikids.com/news/olympics2002/archives/feb20_3.html
Extractions: The team nobody talked about before the first women's bobsled competition in Olympic history was the team everyone asked about afterward: the U.S. second team of driver Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers, who won the gold medal with a total two-run time of 1:37.76. Vonetta became the first African-American ever to win gold at a Winter Olympics. "Hopefully, this will encourage other African-American boys and girls to give winter sports a try," Vonetta said. The win was the first American bobsled medal in 46 years . . . all it took was to let women compete in the sport! "A lot of people saw us as the other team,' " Vonetta said. "We wanted to prove them wrong." Vonetta was referring to the U.S. first team of driver Jean Racine and brakewoman Gea Johnson. Before the Olympics, Jean received more press than an ultra-wrinkled shirt. Jean and her former brakewoman, Jen Davidson, had reeled off 23 straight "W's" and won the World Cup titles in the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 seasons. But after a poor start in 2001-2002, Jean blamed Jen for their lousy performances and dumped her like an old video-game system. She added Gea, a powerful pusher, just months before the Olympics. But Gea pulled her left hamstring days before the race and was visibly limping at both of their starts.
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Vonetta Flowers - Welcome Vonetta Flowers of Birmingham, Alabama and her women's bobsled partner Jill Bakken compete in the XIX Winter olympic Games in Salt Lake City. http://www.vonettaflowers.com/
Usolympicteam.com The USOC's general bobsled information webpages. http://www.usolympicteam.com/sports2/bb/az_news.cfm?spID=7
Bobsledder.com - WELCOMES YOU Information regarding the 2002 olympic Armenian bobsled Team, the schedule, and a store where shirts, hats and pins are being sold. http://www.bobsledder.com/
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CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Sport Explainers - Bobsled History - Monday F John Gichigi/Allsport. history. Sleds have been used for centuries as a way to travel on snow, but bobsledding didn't emerge as a sport until the late 19th century, when the Swiss attached a steering http://cnnsi.com/olympics/2002/sport_explainers/bobsled_history
Extractions: John Gichigi/Allsport HISTORY Sleds have been used for centuries as a way to travel on snow, but bobsledding didn't emerge as a sport until the late 19th century, when the Swiss attached a steering mechanism to a toboggan. Bobsled races take place on many natural ice courses throughout Europe. The Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT) is founded. The four-man race takes place at the first ever Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix, France. At the Games in St. Mortiz, Switzerland, five men compete on each four-man team for the only time in Olympic history. The two-man event is added at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. American Eddie Eagen becomes the only person to win a gold medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics (four-man bobsled, light heavyweight boxing). An important rule change limits the total weight of crew and sled, ending the era of the heavyweight bobsledder. The rule helps make the sport a highly athletic event. Early 1990s: Women's bobsledding debuts at events in Europe and North America.
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