The Journalist's Toolbox 2002 Winter Olympic Games Events Washington Post 1998 Winter olympic bobsled Com petition. USOC 30Second Guide tobobsled and Skeleton. com Many helpful links to news, history, results, tracks http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/olympics2002events.html
Winter Olympics - 2002 For the first time in olympic history, women will compete in bobsled,which hurtles sledders down the track at more than 90 mph. Next . http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/360/oly1/
Extractions: Journalists and Salt Lake Olympic officials tour the bobsled, luge and skeleton portions of the Utah Olympic Park. The blue tarp covers the section between turns 11 and 12 of the bobsled run. For the first time in Olympic history, women will compete in bobsled, which hurtles sledders down the track at more than 90 mph. Next >> Click and drag on image to navigate. Click 'a' to zoom in, 'z' to zoom out.
Extractions: PARK CITY, Utah With two U.S. men's bobsled teams within striking distance of a medal today, times were tight and words were few Friday at Utah Olympic Park. Todd Hays of Del Rio drove the USA 1 four-man sled to the two fastest times of the day Friday, taking a lead of six-hundredths of a second into the final two runs today over the Switzerland 1 sled driven by Martin Annen and the Germany 2 sled driven by Andre Lange. The second Swiss sled, driven by Christian Reich, was .38 seconds off the lead, one-hundredth of a second ahead of Brian Shimer's USA 2 sled. But Hays' team of Randy Jones, Bill Schuffenhauer and Garrett Hines was short on emotion and even shorter on words after adding three-hundredths of a second to its lead in the second heat. All four left the finish line loading dock without talking to reporters. "We have to concentrate on tomorrow's races," Hays said through a spokesman for the park. "I feel great. This is a four-heat competition, and we have two heats to go."
Harvard University Athletics: Olympics in four sports at the Winter olympics bobsled, figure skating 1996 Harvard OlympiansAllTime Harvard Olympians Harvard's olympic history Harvard's Connolly http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~athletic/olympics.html
Extractions: A Harvard athlete won the first gold medal of the modern Olympic Games. James B. Connolly 1898 , of South Boston, was victorious in the hop, skip, and jump (now known as the triple jump), the first event of the 1896 Games in Athens. He took a silver medal in the high jump and a bronze in the long jump at the same Games, and also competed in the 1900 Games.
Olympic Hall Of Fame - Class Of 1983 Detail is that he is the only athlete in olympic history to have in the first round of theolympic heavyweight boxing as a member of the US fourman bobsled team in http://www.olympic-usa.org/about_us/programs/halloffame/1983detail.html
Extractions: Track and Field, 1968 (1 gold) Beamon set the Track and Field world on its ear at the 1968 Olympic long jump in Mexico City, when he jumped 29 feet, two-and-one-half inches to win the gold medal. Beamon's jump was a world record that eclipsed the previous record by 21 3/4 inches. The jump still stands as an Olympic record, and stood as a world record until Mike Powell leapt 29' 4 1/2" at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. Figure Skating, 1948, '52 (2 golds) In 1948, Button became the first U.S. figure skater to win an Olympic gold medal, enthralling spectators in St. Moritz with never-before-attempted maneuvers such as the flying sitspin, flying camel, double axel, double lutz and double flip. He followed that performance up with a second gold in 1952 in Oslo. In both performances combined, only one of the 18 judges did not award Button a first-place vote.
Olympic History Page- ON-ICE Magazine Spectators were thrilled by the ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other eventsinvolving a total of six sports. olympic history of Medals in Hockey http://www.on-icemagazine.com/national_teams/Olympic_hist.htm
Extractions: News Releases ORIGINS OF HOCKEY, CLICK HERE 1924 First Winter Olympics On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by the ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of six sports. The "International Winter Sports Week" as it was known, was a great success, and in 1928 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially designated the Winter Games, staged in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as the second Winter Olympics. Five years after the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896, the first organized international competition involving winter sports was staged in Sweden. Called the Nordic Games, only Scandinavian countries competed. Like the Olympics, it was staged thereon every four years but always in Sweden. In 1908, figure skating made its way into the Summer Olympics in London, though it was not actually held until October, some three months after the other events were over.
WESH.com - Olympics Dispatcher's Diary Dispatcher's Diary Watching The bobsled Mary Jo Secor attendsthe fourman bobsled competition, but the reserved seats olympic history. http://ia.newschannel2000.com/olympics/
Extractions: Parra along with USA II Men's Bobsled Team COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 12, 2002The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announced today the recipients of the February 2002 Athlete and Team of the Month awards. All the honorees earned their nominations for results achieved at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the U.S. enjoyed its most successful Games in history by winning 34 medals. Speedskater Chris Witty (West Allis, Wis.) won Female Athlete of the Month honors. Having been diagnosed with mononucleosis a month earlier, Witty went out and set a world record and earned the gold medal in the women's 1000-meters with a time of 1:13:83. Before she took the ice, no woman had ever broken the 1:14 barrier. Witty also set personal bests in the 1500m and 500m. Witty just missed the podium in the 1500-meters with a time of 1:55.71 to place fifth. In the 500, Witty placed 14th.
Winter Olympics Coverage For Austin From Austin360.com just two months before the olympics, she decided to abandon her bobsled partner in Itwas the first time in olympic bobsleigh history that there were http://www.austin360.com/shared/sports/olympics/winter/bobsled_pre.html
Sledding A Winter Sport history of Sleds. Two to four people maneuver a bobsled down a winding track ofice. Most bobsled races are in the Alps or at Winter olympic sites. http://members.aol.com/rmguerra/christmas.htm
Extractions: Luge The luge is a small sled used for one and two-man competitions. Lugeing is a type of tobogganing. The luge's shell is made of fiberglass and two runners. The runners, have attached steel blades touching the ice. Riders lie on their backs, feet first, and steer using subtle movements of the body and feet. In competition, luge speeds can exceed 121-129 km/h. A luge track is covered with ice averaging about 3.8 cm in thickness. The luge probably was developed in the Alpine regions of Europe and was popularized by tourists in the late 1800s. The first European lugeing championship was held in 1914. The Luge has been a Winter Olympic since 1964.
SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Winter Games Leave Mixed Legacy Shimer has a positive drug test in his past (it was later overturned) and in 1994was part of the only bobsled team in olympic history to be disqualified for http://www.uniontrib.com/sports/olympics/20020225-9999_1n25olympics.html
Extractions: UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER February 25, 2002 The athletes danced and laughed and hugged, and Salt Lake organizers high-fived after turning a profit that could exceed $100 million. The five-ringed flag was lowered, the flame was extinguished, and International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge invited the world's winter athletes to assemble again in 2006 in Turin, Italy. In many ways, these were fabulously successful Games. There were no traffic jams, no technological glitches, no security breaches. There were thrilling performances and poignant moments, the usual cocktail of triumph and tears that the Olympics seems to stir together like nothing else. The United States won 34 medals, 21 more than it had in any Winter Games, and sent forth its most multiracial team yet into sports traditionally as white as the snow and ice they are played on. Bobsledder Vonetta Flowers became the first black athlete to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics, and speed skater Derek Parra the first Mexican-American to do so. Germany won 35 medals, the most in the history of the Winter Games.
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Hickok's Sports History: Bobsledding Index to bobsledding history; bobsledding in America; Conduct of Competition;olympic Champions. Related Subject Luge. Governing Body US bobsled and Skeleton http://hickoksports.hypermart.net/bobsled.htm
Extractions: Refinance now homeowner even if you have bad credit. 185 loc Bobsledding Table of Contents History T he bobsled was developed in Switzerland late in the 19th century when someone 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 new sled got its name because early racers thought they could get even more speed by bobbing their bodies backward and forward. They soon realized it didn't work, but the name stuck. The first organized competition in the new sport was held on the Cresta Run on January 5, 1898, with five-passenger sleds. (Two of the passengers had to be 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. Bobsledding spread rapidly to other Alpine countries. By 1914, when the first European championships took place at St. Moritz, there were more than a hundred bobsled runs in Europe.
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.
American Skandia - US Women Bobsledders Bakken And Flowers Make When US Women Bobsledders Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers raced down the bobsledtrack in Park City, Utah this week, they slid into olympic history and brought http://www2.americanskandia.com/aboutus/mediacenter/pressreleases/archive2002022
Usolympicteam.com The USOC's general bobsled information webpages. http://www.usolympicteam.com/sports2/bb/az_news.cfm?spID=7
Olympics 2002 - CBS.SportsLine.com (AP), Instead of just one sled, two US teams end the American 46year medal droughtin men's bobsled. Related Links , Photo Gallery. , olympic Highlights. http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/olympics/2002/bobsled/
Bobsled Track A sad reminder of Sarejevo's wartorn present and olympic past. http://www.richardhurtado.com/jb/bobsled.html
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/
Canada Olympic Park Home of Canada's only refrigerated bobsled track. Provides events schedule, information on museum and hall of fame, and job opportunities. http://www.coda.ab.ca/COP/
