81. Usnews.com - Winter Olympics 2002 - Sport-By-Sport Guide BENJAMIN Jean Racine, America s golden girl of bobsled, finally has a chance foran olympic medal. For the first time, women will compete in the sport at the http://www.usnews.com/usnews/olympics/winter/articles/bobsled.htm

document.write(''); Best Colleges Best Grad Schools E-learning Auto Reviews ... Market@usnews Former champ Matt Roy looks for a fast first 50 meters (4.8 seconds for men, 5.3 for women) and a smooth exit out of curve 4. Drivers will be deep in thought before the race, imagining the path down the 1,300-meter, 15-curve track for a perfect run. Driver Brian Shimer, who turns 40 in April, shocked sledders by qualifying for Olympics No. 5. Will he finally medal? Every run has its own records. In Park City, top women's speed is 48.92 seconds. Men's is 47.58 for 2-man, 46.57 for 4-man. The women's competition is on Feb. 19. The men's 2-man finals are on Feb. 17. The 4-man finishes up on Feb. 23. BOBSLED At long last, women can sled at the Olympics. But it won't be a smooth debut. The U.S. team is caught up in a real soap opera BY MATTHEW BENJAMIN J ean Racine, America's golden girl of bobsled, finally has a chance for an Olympic medal. For the first time, women will compete in the sport at the Salt Lake City games. Critics, however, say she's already embarked on a cold course to a potential victory. In December, Racine made a move that bitterly divided the once blissful women's bobsled community. Just days before Olympic trials began, the 23-year-old hotshot driver replaced longtime teammate and best friend Jen Davidson with another brakeman, splitting up the two-woman team on which the United States had pinned most of its medal hopes and leaving Davidson without a team.

82. NPR : The Sports, 2002 Winter Olympics, A Special Report NPR News looks at the sports of the 2002 Winter to these games skeleton returnedto the Olympics after a absence, and women made their debut in the bobsled. http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/olympics2002/sports/

Skip Navigation Programs and Schedules All Programs A-Z All Schedules MOST VISITED PROGRAMS All Songs Considered All Things Considered Car Talk Day to Day The Diane Rehm Show Fresh Air with Terry Gross Morning Edition The Motley Fool Radio Show Performance Today Talk of the Nation The Tavis Smiley Show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Weekend Edition Saturday Weekend Edition Sunday SCHEDULES NPR Stations' Schedules NPR.org Program Stream NPR Worldwide NPR on Sirius Satellite Radio archives transcripts discussions stations ... help var SA_ID="nprpix;npr"; News Politics Iraq Books ... Program Stream 24-Hour schedule Contact NPR Sponsor NPR Press Room ... Ombudsman The 2002 Winter Olympics The Sports Reuters Limited NPR News looks at the sports of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Among the additions to these games: skeleton returned to the Olympics after a half-century's absence, and women made their debut in the bobsled. Women's Bobsled Tuesday at the Winter Olympics, women will race down bobsled ice for the first time ever. NPR's Howard Berkes reports for All Things Considered.

83. Press Box - Week In Review: U.S. Olympic Sport Highlights - 10/23/2002 in the form of complete stories on this web site (search by sport). The world’sbest bobsled and skeleton athletes will make an olympic encore at http://www.usocpressbox.org/usoc/pressbox.nsf/0/6574cfdf73edee3187256c5b0055764a

84. Winter Olympics - 2002 USE THE MENU BAR BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT olympic sports. Select a sport. http://cfapp.rockymountainnews.com/winterOlympics02/index.cfm?view=sportevents&e

85. Winter Olympics - 2002 USE THE MENU BAR BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT olympic sports. Select a sport. http://cfapp.rockymountainnews.com/winterOlympics02/index.cfm?view=sportevents&e

86. Women's Sports Foundation After seeing an ad for the twowoman bobsled team, my dreams changed first African-Americanwoman to win a gold medal in the winter Olympics. I chose sports. http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/sports/ggg/article.html?recor

87. What Happens To Sports Venues After The Olympics Leave Town?: 2/2/97 But for taxpayers, Nagano s bobsled course and several other brand new Olympicsports facilities promise to gobble more gold than they will ever offer up. http://www.s-t.com/daily/02-97/02-02-97/c06sp161.htm

Foreign markets - Import/Export from New Bedford What happens to sports venues after the Olympics leave town? By Eric Talmadge, Associated Press writer NAGANO, Japan For the athletes, it's a thrilling, 4,488-foot-long, 15-turn chute of ice with the promise of Olympic gold at the finish. But for taxpayers, Nagano's bobsled course and several other brand new Olympic sports facilities promise to gobble more gold than they will ever offer up. Though the Winter Games are still a year away, the post-Olympic future of the bobsled course known as "The Spiral" for its twists and turns and a half-dozen other venues has already become an issue of major concern. Officials fear Nagano and other local host sites will suffer a fate similar to Lillehammer, which organized one of the best games ever three years ago but whose Olympic venues are now running at a $1.5 million annual deficit. "It's not so hard holding an Olympics because you have this big organization to work with," Nagano city official Kazuhiko Ichikawa, who oversees Olympic facilities, said during a recent visit to the course. "But finding ways to utilize the facilities afterward is a challenge." The bobsled run is particularly sensitive because of the tiny number of competitors likely to benefit from it after the games.

88. Whatsonwhen.com - Global Events Guide The olympic Centre at Lake Placid offers you the chance to experience one of thefastest bobsled tracks in the sport, with both a summer and a winter season. http://www.whatsonwhen.com/partners/freeserve/viewevent.asp?id=46631

89. Observer Newspaper - Sports Vol XXXV No. 97, Friday, February 22, 2002. bobsled 2001 ND graduatecompetes in Olympics By NOAH AMSTADTER sports Editor Two weekends http://www.nd.edu/~observer/02222002/Sports/8.html

Daily Index Advertise Contact Us Submit a letter to the Editor ... Breaking News from the Associated Press at the New York Times Vol XXXV No. 97 Friday, February 22, 2002 Bobsled: 2001 ND graduate competes in Olympics By: NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor Two weekends ago, the Notre Dame track and field team had just stepped off the bus and was checking into their hotel in Windsor, Canada, where they had a meet the next day. As the athletes waited for their room assignments, somebody flipped on the television to watch the Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Olympics. The camera scanned the athletes, showing faces from countries spanning Nepal to Cameroon. All of the sudden, a face from Hungary appeared on the screen, a face quite familiar to the Irish athletes. It was Marton Gyulai, a 2001 Notre Dame graduate who competed in the sprints for the Irish the previous four seasons. "The Opening Ceremonies were going on and for some reason they kind of zoomed in on Marton," Notre Dame sprint coach John Millar said. "That was kind of the talk of the meet for a little while there." Gyulai, whose father and brother have both previously represented Hungary in the Olympics, is carrying on the family tradition as a member of his country's four-man bobsled team. Competition begins today at 5:30 p.m. EST at Utah's Olympic Park.

90. Olympics: Bobsled Win Elates '68 Medalist was also a veteran member of the US Navy bobsled team, which with the impressive displayare many books about Olympics and winter sports, assembled by the http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/25/Olympics/Bobsled_win_elates__6.shtml

The games Feb. 8-24, 2002 Olympics Coverage Photo Galleries Feb. 9, 2002 Opening night Feb. 10, 2002 Day one events Feb. 11, 2002 Day two events Feb. 12, 2002 Day three events Feb. 13, 2002 Day four events Feb. 14, 2002 Day five events Feb. 15, 2002 Day six events Feb. 16, 2002 Day seven events Feb. 17, 2002 Day eight events Feb. 18, 2002 Day nine events Feb. 19, 2002 Day 10 events Feb. 20, 2002 Day 11 events Feb. 21, 2002 Day 12 events Feb. 22, 2002 Day 13 events Feb. 23, 2002 Day 14 events Feb. 24, 2002 Day 15 events Feb. 25, 2002 closing ceremony Special links Salt Lake 2002 U.S. Olympic Committee International Olympic Committee NBC Olympics Interactive Forums: Follow your sport at our message boards Times sites Sports Bobsled win elates '68 medalist By JORGE SANCHEZ, Times Staff Writer published February 25, 2002 Today's Olympic photo gallery Complete Olympics coverage INVERNESS Former Olympic medalist Bob Huscher said this year's gold medal-winning U.S. women's bobsled team has done a lot to change the perception that the Winter Olympics is primarily a European showcase. "They proved that America can compete with anybody in the Winter Olympics," Huscher said. "They won the gold medal the first time out. They proved you don't have to be in the sport too many years to have a good team."

91. Bobsled - Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games Coverage 75 years, men have competed in olympic bobsled. But 2002 will be the first timeever that women will race in the olympics. Learn about the sport, the athletes http://deseretnews.com/oly/bobs/0,3987,,00.html

Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsled Cross country skiing ... Prince says Games will go on About Bobsled: Schedule/results Bobsled photos Bobsledding slides into Olympic history with high speeds, low times Traditionally the darling of sliding sports, bobsledding dates back to the 1880s in Albany, N.Y., born of lumbersled races. Today's world-class U.S. bobsledders are generally track and field and/or football converts because a rare union of strength and speed are essential to jumpstarting the mammoth sleds, which can weigh a maximum of 858 pounds (for the two-man) and 1,386 pounds (four-man). Up Close: Women's bobsled For more than 75 years, men have competed in Olympic Bobsled. But 2002 will be the first time ever that women will race in the Olympics. Learn about the sport, the athletes, the venue, and more. Up Close: Bobsled Sleds rip down the course at over 85-miles-per-hour. From top to bottom, this competition run is over in well less than a minute. Learn more about Bobsled and U.S. contenders. Olympic highlights Utah connections Bobsled medalists in Nagano August 2, 2002 WinterSports2002.com

92. Many Believers Now In U.S. Bobsledding - 2002 Winter Olympics Coverage Bonny Warner of Discovery Bay, Calif. — an airline captain and bobsled pilot— worked tirelessly to make women s bobsledding an olympic sport. http://deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,70001583,00.html

Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsled Cross country skiing ... E-mail a copy of this story Many believers now in U.S. bobsledding By Joe Bauman Deseret News Olympic specialist For the first time, the sport of bobsled racing is truly gender-blind, with women from around the world dazzling spectators with their swift runs and sharp-edged driving. The International Olympic Committee wisely opened the event to women, and they proved how thrilling competition can be. With the gold medal going to Jill Bakken, Park City, and her driver Vonetta Flowers, Helena, Ala., (first black athlete to medal in the Winter Games), women's bobsled made a great advance. The sport seems likely to start winning the kind of support that women's ice hockey earned in 1998, when Team USA beat Canada. The silver and bronze medals the American men bobsledders won Saturday erased the pain of a 46-year "medal drought" and vastly boosted interest in the sport. "In the end, bobsled is a real, true sport. And I think more people will come into it. That'll be good," Warner said. The Salt Lake Winter Games made a lot of people believers in women's bobsledding, according to Warner. "We held a beautiful race. I mean, nobody crashed. It was a very tight and very exciting race."

93. Skeleton Barrels Back Into Olympics careening down the swerves and straightaways of a bobsled track, head IntoxicatingRide In skeleton racing, the newest olympic sport, sledders may accelerate http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0221_020221_wireskeleton.html

Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter Also see: Today's Top Stories This Story E-mail this story Sponsored in part by Skeleton Barrels Back into Olympics Mark Sappenfield Christian Science Monitor February 21, 2002 Sitting in a room with America's five Olympic skeleton sliders, the question inevitably arises: So what is it like careening down the swerves and straightaways of a bobsled track, head first, feet flailing? Intoxicating Ride In skeleton racing, the newest Olympic sport, sledders may accelerate to the speed of a locomotive as seen above with Maya Pedersen from Switzerland competing in the FIBT Women's World Cup Skeleton at the Olympic Park in Park City, Utah. More News Kids News The Environment Travel National Geographic Channel Special Series Emerging Explorers TravelWatch National Geographic Out There Oceans ... Pulse of the Planet Finally, Lincoln DeWitt, last season's World Cup champion, offers a colleague's assessment: Imagine driving down a highway at 85 mph., then opening the door and sticking your head out so it nearly skims the asphalt. There is Lea Ann Parsley, the 1999 Ohio firefighter of the year, who saved a mother and daughter from a burning building and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in nursing. There is Chris Soule, who worked as a stuntman in the film

94. ACS :: Determination And Courage Drives A Bobsled Full Of Hope In order to get more nations involved to ensure the sports’ acceptance into theOlympic games, a women’s bobsled driving school was formed in Utah in 1998. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/FPS/content/FPS_1_Determination_and_Courage_Drives

95. Vonetta Flowers - 2002 Olympics be one of the first American’s to compete for an olympic medal in a sport shehelped She came to bobsled by way of a track competition in California, an http://www.vonettaflowers.com/2002olympics.asp?record_no=614

96. Coloring Page: Bobsled Title Coloring Page bobsled. Homework Reminder Notecards olympic Events AquaticsOur olympic Event pages each highlight a popular olympic sport and briefly http://www.abcteach.com/docs/1700.html

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97. Dickinson College - The Dickinsonian to withstand the pressures of the sport. As I got older however I realized I wasn tgoing to have the size needed for bobsled and put the olympic thoughts on http://cfserv.dickinson.edu/dickinsonian/detail.cfm?59

98. Women's Bobsled Ready For Olympic Debut: U.S. Program Arises From Simple Whim To be an olympic event, a sport must be contested in more than 24 countries andon several Women s bobsled fell far short of the requirements in 1995. http://news.theolympian.com/specialsections/TheGames/11732.shtml

The Olympian Olympia, Washington BACK 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="TheGames" var prop3="" var prop4="" var prop5="" var prop6="news" var prop7="" var prop8="" var prop9="" var prop10="" var s_code=' ' /* 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="The Games" var prop2="" var prop3="" var prop4="" var prop5="" var prop6="news" var prop7="" var prop8="" var prop9="" var prop10="" var s_code=' ' The Games Friday, February 8, 2002 The Associated Press The U.S. two-woman bobsled team of Jean Racine (right) and Gea Johnson is among the gold-medal favorites in the first-time Olympic event. Women's bobsled ready for Olympic debut U.S. program arises from simple whim PAULINE ARRILLAGA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

99. Spotlight Sport - Bobsledding bobsledding The bobsled was developed in Switzerland in 1897 A part of the WinterOlympic games since their in 1924, bobsledding is a sport of exhilarating but http://www.edgate.com/wintergames/design/spotlight_sport/bbsled.htm

Bobsledding The bobsled was developed in Switzerland in 1897 when a group of vacationers put runners on a toboggan to get greater speed down the famous Cresta Run at St. Moritz. The sport of racing bobsleds down the mountain quickly became popular among British and American visitors. The first sleds were made of wood but were soon replaced by steel sleds, which were much faster. A part of the Winter Olympic games since their inception in 1924, bobsledding is a sport of exhilarating but dangerous speed. Competition Interesting Facts Learn More Other Sports ... Links Competition The first organized competition in the sport was held on the Cresta Run on January 5, 1898, with five-passenger sleds with two of the passengers being women. For better steering, they were equipped with four runners, positioned on axles much like the four wheels of a car. With the new design, speeds on the mountainside became dangerously fast, so an artificial bobsled run with a gentler slope was built at St. Moritz in 1902.

100. ThinkQuest : Library : Unusual Sports In The Olympics Moritz, there were more than a hundred bobsled runs in year, bobsledding was introducedinto the Olympics at Chamonix By 1950 the sport we know today had taken http://library.thinkquest.org/J002862/bobsled.htm

Index Olympic Games Unusual Sports in the Olympics Everyone has heard of figure skating and gymnastics, but how many people know the thrill of racing down an ice covered track on a sled or the beauty of water ballet? This web site explores the "unusual sports in the Olympics:" the ones that may not get much press attention, but that have dedicated athletes just the same. After visiting this informative and interactive site, you won't see the Olympics in the same light again. Visit Site 2000 ThinkQuest USA Awards Gold Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world. Click here to learn how you can build a ThinkQuest site. Privacy Policy

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