21. Jamaica National Bobsled Team - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The Jamaican bobsled Team first gained fame during its debut in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is also well known from its portrayal in the 1993 film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_national_bobsled_team

Jamaica national bobsled team From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search The Jamaican Bobsled Team first gained fame during its debut in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary Alberta Canada . It is also well known from its portrayal in the 1993 film Cool Runnings , loosely based on its exploits in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Contents Origins Olympics Team lineup Previous ... edit Origins George B. Fitch and William Maloney, Americans with family and business ties to Jamaica , were largely responsible for the founding of the Jamaican Bobsled Team. During a visit to the island they witnessed a pushcart derby and realized that pushcart racing is very similar to bobsledding Since bobsledding requires a fast start, Maloney and Fitch decided to use sprinters, who are plentiful on the island nation of Jamaica. They originally tried to recruit Olympic -class sprinters, but found little interest, so they presented their idea to Colonel Ken Barnes of the Jamaican military. The first four members of the Jamaican bobsled team were: Devon Harris , a lieutenant in the Second Battalion, Jamaica Regiment Dudley Stokes , a captain from the JDF Air Wing Michael White , a private in the National Reserves Samuel Clayton , a railway engineer They were coached by Howard Siler , of Malone, New York

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25. Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games: Bobsled - CSMonitor.com Feb 08, 2010 The recordfast Whistler track may favor the talented German team, but look for strong performances from the Americans and the Canadian women, who have two sleds ranked http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Olympics/2010/0208/Vancouver-2010-Olympic-Games-B

26. CNN/SI - 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games - Bobsled bobsled news from the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/events/1998/nagano/sports/oly_bobsled.

Message Boards Nagano Maps Olympic Records Time Conversion ... Was It Worth It? Despite the loutish behavior of the U.S. hockey team and the favorites' early ouster, the answer is, Yes, this was a dream of a tournament Golden Girls A talented U.S. women's hockey team showed its mettle by defeating favored Canada A Holy Tara While Michelle Kwan was all business, Tara Lipinski was determined to make friends and have fun, and she left Nagano with a cool keepsake Shimer's nightmare continues German 2 wins 4-man bobsled gold as U.S. finishes 5th The French went nuts, the British swigged champagne and the Germans celebrated in their calm, cool way. And Brian Shimer? He tossed his helmet into his bobsled and gazed in stunned disbelief, then put his head in his hands. By just two-hundredths of a second, the long nightmare for America's bobsledders was extended another four years. FULL STORY The German team celebrates its gold medal   AP Germany leads heading to 2-run race for gold This time the weather beat Brian Shimer. Despite a steady rain and temperatures in the mid-30s, Shimer guided USA 1 into fourth place after one run of the four-man bobsled on Friday. Then the second heat was canceled, making the run for gold a two-heat race on Saturday. FULL STORY Canadian gets pat on injury from U.S. chief

27. Bobsled - 2010 Vancouver Olympics - The New York Times Gold Medals in the Winter Olympics. Some countries have dominated Olympics events for years. Norway, Sweden and Finland, for example, have won virtually all the gold medals for http://2010games.nytimes.com/events/bobsled/index.html

Home Page Today's Paper Video Most Popular ... Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Olympics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... Autos Search Olympics Olympic Sports Select Sport Alpine Skiing Bobsled Biathlon Cross-country Skiing Curling Freestyle Skiing Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Nordic Combined Snowboard Ski Jumping Skeleton Speed Skating Short Track Rings Blog » Event Schedule » ... More Disciplines Bobsled News and Overview Results and Medals Events: View Event Results Men's Two-Man Men's Four-Man Women's Bobsled Featured Events GER GER RUS CAN CAN USA USA GER CAN Featured Athletes Steven Holcomb Andre Lange Shauna Rohbock Helen Upperton Multimedia Interactive Map Gold Medals in the Winter Olympics Some countries have dominated Olympics events for years. Norway, Sweden and Finland, for example, have won virtually all the gold medals for cross country skiing since 1924. BobSled Venues Whistler Sliding Centre About Bobsled Doug Pensinger/Getty Images It has been compared to going down a mountain in a garbage can, a ride so bumpy it can leave competitors scarred and bruised. Such is the sport of bobsledding, which has been a part of the Winter Olympics since its inception in 1924. The bobsled was developed in the late 19th century when a toboggan was outfitted with runners and a steering mechanism at St. Moritz in Switzerland. The first sleds were made of wood but were soon replaced by faster steel sleds. The sport took its name from the bobbing heads of the competitors as they tried to gain speed.

28. Ie 06/bobsled A bobsled run leads down a hill as sketched in the figure above. Between points A and D, friction is negligible. Between points D and E at the end of the run, the http://wug.physics.uiuc.edu/cgi/courses/shell/per/phys101/ie.pl?06/bobsled

29. BOBSLED - Vancouver 2010 Blog - NYTimes.com WHISTLER, British Columbia — The bobsleds came and they spilled over, one after another at the same treacherous curve in a recycling of pileups. http://vancouver2010.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/bobsled/

30. Bobsled@Everything2.com Introduction to bobsled. bobsledding is that crazy sport you see at the winter olympics, where either 2 of 4 men push a big sled like contraption along some grooves in the ice http://everything2.com/title/Bobsled

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Bulletin Boards Find an Old Friend Free Email Shopping ... Calendar of Events Jamaican Bobsleigh Home The Jamaican Bobsleigh team Buy our Jamaicans.com Bobsled T-shirt Now!!! Fourteen years ago the first Jamaican Bobsleigh team made history in the Calgary Olympics Winter Games. They warmed the hearts of many worldwide in their first attempt at Olympic glory and was even immortalized in the popular Walt Disney movie "Cool Runnings". Since then the team has been a mainstay in the Winter Olympics and now have their eyes focused on bringing back a medal to Jamaica. In the first games (1988) the team was seen as a novelty as they had many technically difficulties, injuries and crashes. In the second games (1992) the team had drastically improved. They had practiced hard for 4 years and were confident and focused. The 4-man team came in 14th ahead of the US, French, Russian and Italians teams. This was just the beginning. In the 2-man event the Jamaican team shocked the world by beating the Swedish national champions and coming in 10th place. The team has continued to improve and took in 2000, and took gold at the World Push Championships in Monte Carlo in three events and posting the fasted start time at the World Cup.

32. Bobsled - Training, Exercise, Strength, Muscle - World Of Sports Science Sleds and sleighs have been a part of the winter transportation used in cold climates for many hundreds of years. Two thin runners, first constructed of wood and later of steel http://www.faqs.org/sports-science/Ba-Ca/Bobsled.html

// nothing @import "../css/default.css"; Documents Homepage World of Sports Science Ba-Ca Bobsled Sleds and sleighs have been a part of the winter transportation used in cold climates for many hundreds of years. Two thin runners, first constructed of wood and later of steel, are an efficient device for travel over snow or ice. The downward force of the weight supported by the sled is applied over the entire length the runners, which reduces the friction. At the Swiss resort town of St. Moritz in 1897, the bobsled was used for the first time. Visitors rode the invention for fun and recreation, descending along a natural ice track that was available on a hill at the resort. The early machines were simply a crude steering device attached to the runners of a sled; the name bobsled (spelled bobsleigh in Europe) derived its name from the rocking or bobbing motion that the occupants of the sled made in their attempts to make the sled go faster. It is a footnote of history that the name was the result of poorly applied science, as the laws of physics support the proposition that when sliding downhill, the less motion inside the sled, the less deviation from the optimal path of travel. The modern bobsleds are a product of intense technological development, where science operates to the very limit of the prescribed rules of the sport. The two-man sleds are a maximum of 8.3 ft (2.7 m) long, and weigh 858 lb (390 kg); the four-man sleds are 11.8 ft (3.5 m) long, weighing a maximum of 1,386 lb (630 kg); the permitted weights are that of crew and sled combined. The steel runners must not be lubricated or heated in any fashion that would create less friction as the sled travels along the track.

33. Welcome To TeamHolcomb.com This site follows the career of USA bobsled Driver Steven Holcomb. Biography, the team, photographs, and links. http://stevenholcomb.com/

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35. Bobsled - Definition Of Bobsled By The Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus And Enc bob sled (b b sl d) n. 1. A long racing sled with a steering mechanism controlling the front runners. 2. a. A long sled made of two shorter sleds joined in tandem. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bobsled

36. Vonetta Flowers - 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/

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38. Bobsled — Infoplease.com Event Time; 2Man E. Ger. (Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer) 325.56 4-Man E. Ger. (Wolfgang Hoppe, Roland Wetzig, Dietmar Schauerhammer, Andreas Kirchner) http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0301132.html

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