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Usolympicteam.com history of Skeleton The early details of the history of skeleton Women's skeletonwill debut at the 2002 Winter olympic Games. Timeline of bobsled and Skeleton http://www.usolympicteam.com/sports2/skl/az_hist.html
Extractions: The first steel skeleton was introduced to the winter resort scene of St. Moritz, Switzerland, by an American tourist, Stephen Whitney. The first steel bobsled was created in Winchester, England. Possible birth of the sport of skeleton, when all participants used the head first method during a race. The St. Moritz (Switzerland) Bobsled Club was founded, the first such club in the world. Bobsledding and skeleton sliding increase in popularity around winter resorts in Europe, particularly in Switzerland. Founding of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT) in Paris, France, to oversee the competitive development of the sport..
Usolympicteam.com The fourman race was the first olympic bobsled event in will debut at the 2002 Winterolympic Games in The early details of the history of skeleton sliding http://www.usolympicteam.com/sports2/bb/az_hist.html
New Page 1 and civilian brakeman Vonetta Flowers from Alabama into the pages of olympic history.The unheralded duo's tworun total time in their bobsled USA 2 of http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/SoundOFF/archives/SO2002/Feb28/html/02-28Sports-bobs
Extractions: Army News Service Spc. Jill Bakken holds flowers aloft and enjoys her moment of triumph after winning the gold in the first-ever women's Olympic bobsled race. Her brakeman Vonetta Flowers is also being lifted by teammates on the left. The race held Feb. 19. - Photo by Robert Trubia A soft-spoken National Guard soldier steered her two-woman bobsled to a gold medal Feb. 19 by winning the first women's bobsled competition ever featured in the Olympic Games. Spc. Jill Bakken, 25, of the Utah Army National Guard and a member of the U.S. Army's World Class Athlete Program drove herself and civilian brakeman Vonetta Flowers from Alabama into the pages of Olympic history. The unheralded duo's two-run total time in their bobsled USA 2 of 1 minute, 37.76 seconds at the Utah Olympic Park easily beat the two German teams that walked away with the silver and bronze medals. The better-known American team of driver Jean Racine and brakeman Gea Johnson, in USA 1, finished fifth. Johnson was hobbled by an injured left hamstring and could not push that sled as hard and as fast as she needed to for that team to gain the gold or any other Olympic honors.
United States Bobsled And Skeleton Federation It conducts championships for its 48 affiliated national bobsled federations. Championshipsas well as participation in the olympic Games. FOR MORE history. http://www.usbsf.com/bobhistory.htm
Extractions: Past How did it start? - in the late 1880's in Albany, New York racing lumber sleds. At that time, the sport also became popularized in Swiss winter resorts. The first sleds had rope steering and no brakes. They were stopped by using a garden rake. Bobsled first appeared in the Olympics in 1928 when Billy Fiske of the USA won a gold in the five-man race. The last U.S. Olympic medal was won by Art Tyler in the 1956 Cortina, Italy Games. He took a bronze in four-man. A Kodak engineer, he designed, built and raced his own sleds, the first sled ever to use an articulated front and back. The last World Championship medal won by the U.S. was a bronze in the four-man by Brian Shimer, Chip (Mr. World Class) Minton, Randy Jones, and Robert Olesen at the 1997 St. Moritz World Championships. Brian Shimer and Robert Olesen also won the bronze medal for the 1997 World Championships in two-man. Present In Olympic competition, there are two-man and four-man races with 1300
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Brian Shimer Bobsledding Four years ago, Shimer became the only man in olympic history to be disqualifiedfrom a fourman bobsled race for having sled runners that were warmer than the http://www.geocities.com/paris/cafe/4117/brianshimer.html
Extractions: World Cup season. (AFP) After Shimer's four-man sled was literally left in the sun too long, his team was disqualified for having runners that were too warm (heated runners make the sled faster). Shimer, 35, has been among the leading drivers in the two- and four-man competitions during this World Cup season. If these Olympics have a trap door, it would seem to be the two uphill portions of the Spiral bobsled and luge track. Said the wary Shimer: "Nobody seems to be able to do that part right two times in a row." Saturday, February 21, 1998 Brian Shimer fails again to medal by two-hundredths of a second NAGANO, Japan (AP) Nobody should have to endure this much pain. A decade ago, Brian Shimer watched Brent Rushlaw lose an Olympic bobsled medal for the United States by two-hundredths of a second. Four years ago, Shimer became the only man in Olympic history to be disqualified from a four-man bobsled race for having sled runners that were warmer than the rules allowed. On Saturday, Shimer lost an Olympic medal that was within his grasp. Incredibly, it, too, was by two-hundredths of a second.
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Park City Visitors Bureau - Press Room - Winter Press Kit Traveling in the same track as the bobsled, the Ice Rocket is a selfsteering, luge-typesled that can Fly through the same air where olympic history was made. http://www.parkcityinfo.com/press/winter/winter_top25.html
Extractions: Top 25 Park City Winter Activities PARK CITY, UTAH 1- Skiing: 2- Snowboarding: 3- Helicopter Skiing: 4- Bobsled: 5- Rocket Ride: 6- Ski Jumping: 7- Snowmobiling: Take a guided snowmobile tour across the breathtaking Rocky Mountains. You'll learn to ride safely and have fun, while being mindful of the beautiful surrounding environment. 8- Snowshoeing: 9- Cross-Country Skiing: Before there was the thrill of alpine skiing, there was the serenity of cross-country skiing. Park City offers several options for this demanding and fulfilling sport. Try the groomed trails or take a custom tour under the Rocky Mountain skyline. 10- Hot Air Ballooning: See Park City from a birds-eye view in a hot air balloon, sure to take your breath away. Take a 1/2 hour, 1 hour or Wasatch Mountain adventure flight, with continental breakfast, champagne and flight certificate. 11- Sleigh Rides: 12- Dog Sledding: 13- Tubing: For people of all ages and abilities, Gorgoza Park, a lift-served tubing park, is an ideal activity dedicated to the young and the young-at-heart. 14- Ice Skating: 15- Fly-Fishing: 16- Ski/Snowboard Races: 17- Sundance: Robert Redford's annual Sundance Film Festival opens in Park City Jan. 16 and runs through Jan. 26, 2003. Highlighting films from independent filmmakers, Sundance is a favorite Park City tradition for locals, visitors and celebrities.
Bakken's Gold drove herself and civilian brakeman Vonetta Flowers from Alabama into the pagesof olympic history by winning the first women's bobsled competition ever http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/2002/02/20/bakkensgold.shtml
Extractions: "Specialist Bakken is an Olympic inspiration to the entire National Guard family and to our entire country," said Lt. Gen. Russell Davis, Chief of the National Guard Bureau. "That is especially true at this time when so many of our military people are engaged in the serious business of the war against terrorism at home and abroad.
VNIS Veterans General Information Newsletter 19 in the first women's bobsled competition featured in the olympic Games. brakemanpusher Vonetta Flowers of Alabama drove into the pages of olympic history. http://www.vnis.com/vetnews/veterans/veterans2002/veterans2002-008.htm
Extractions: VNIS Veterans General Information Newsletter (#2002-8) - Topics This Issue: 1) National Guard Bobsledder Jill Bakken Wins Olympic Gold 12 Feared Dead in Chopper Crash in Philippines DoD Provides Resident School for Teens at Remote Sites Veterans Poems ... Back to top ============================================= Get your free personal E-Mail address at http://mail.users.vnis.com/
ABC News.com: Ride Bobsleds At Old Olympic Sites in olympics history. The California olympic Commission was looking to cut any costthey could, and when only nine nations had entered the bobsled competition http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/sports/olympics/bbbobruns.html
Extractions: Every host city since 1980 has had to build a brand new track. The bill for Nagano's Spiral track ran to $79 million, and it could cost as much as $2.5 million annually just to keep it from becoming a total writeoff. Since it's hard to fill a high school stadium with bobsled fans, it's unlikely they'll bring in that kind of cash hosting future competitions. Not all Olympic tracks have survived. Since bobsledding is not a popular sport in Scandinavia, the committee planning the 1952 Games in Oslo decided they didn't want to inflict a huge concrete eyesore on the city for decades after the games left. So the Norwegians carved a channel from ice that melted away.
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Vonetta Flowers Takes Gold! olympic Worksheets Flowers. United States bobsled Skeleton Federation. you canaccess all sorts of cool information on the team members and their history. http://www.classbrain.com/artholiday/publish/article_69.shtml
Extractions: Printer friendly page Vonetta Flowers Vonetta Flowers became the first African-American to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, as part of a two-woman bobsled team. On February 19 th , 2002, Flowers and her partner, Jill Bakken, became the first American women to win a gold medal in the bobsled competition. This is also the first bobsled medal for any American since 1948. Bakken and Flowers, driver and brake-woman respectively, had a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 37.76 seconds. At the age of 28, her goal was to make the Summer Olympics but she said that God had other plans. Flowers was a track star from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, but had two knee operations and ankle surgery. Never in her wildest dreams did she think that after answering an ad for bobsledding, she would become one of the most highly recognized athletes in the sport.
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The History Of Luge The history of Luge Imagine putting on a skin tight jump suit, a helmet on numberof athletes who were relegated to training on the 1932 olympic bobsled run in http://www.efit.com/servlet/article/snowsports/9640.html
Extractions: Nutricise Although the sport is sometimes thought of as being relatively new, sled racing is actually one of the oldest of all winter sports. The word luge comes from the French word for sled. In Germany the sport is known as rodel, and it is in the alpine countries of Europe that the sport began. References to sled racing first appeared in chronicles from Norway in 1480 and the Erz Mountain area in 1552. The first international luge race took place in 1883 with 21 competitors representing seven nations, including the United States. The race was organized by hotels in the Swiss resort of Davos and took place over the 4-kilometer (2.5 mile) road from St. Wolfgang to Klosters. At the turn of the century, luge was actually governed by the International Bobsled Federation, which administered all ice-track sports. In 1953 the sport gained its own international governing body with the formation of the Federation Internationale de Luge de course (FIL), and in 1964 luge was inaugurated as an Olympic sport at the IX Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria. Having no formal luge program at the time, the United States' first Olympic luge team consisted mainly of American soldiers who were stationed in Europe at the time of the Games. Back in the United States, luge attracted a small number of athletes who were relegated to training on the 1932 Olympic bobsled run in Lake Placid, New York. With no formal national organization to support, develop and promote luge, American sliders remained in relative obscurity over the next couple of decades.
KIAT.NET - Winter Olympic Games St Moritz 1928 olympic gold medals. The US bobsled team took both gold and silver inthe only fiveman competition in olympic history. Once again the http://www.kiat.net/olympics/history/winter/w02stmoritz.html
Extractions: IInd WINTER GAMES February 11 - 19, 1928 Mascot - none 25 countries, 464 athletes (26 women) 5 sports, 13 events Opening - President Edmund Schulthess Torch lit by - none The Swiss got the Games due to Holland backing out Another famous tourist resort, St. Moritz in Switzerland, played host to the second edition of the Winter Games. With the first Olympic Winter Games an enormous success, it was no surprise that the St. Moritz Games attracted an 84 percent increase in the number of participants including a 100% increase of female athletes. The Games started poorly due to extremely mild temperatures caused by the "fohn", the warm wind that sweeps the Swiss mountains from the south. The 1928 Winter Games in St. Moritz marked the first time Germany was allowed to participate in any Olympic competition after World War I; the Soviet Union was still notably absent. The Germans won a disappointing one bronze medal. Bobsledding was in the news at the 1928 Games. A new event, the skeleton sled, was upgraded from a demonstration sport and added to the program. In addition, teams in the four-man bobsled event had an option to include a fifth member. They all took up that option.
