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.
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Featured Stories
- Todd Hays: Bobsled Driver Never Dreamed of Olympics
Todd Hayes has been the top U.S. bobsleigh driver over the past three seasons. He's a big strong guy from Texas, who says he never dreamed of being in the Winter Olympics.
- Brian Shimer: Fifth Olympic Experience
Brian Shimer has been a force in American Bobsled for more than 20 years. This will his fifth Olympics, likely his last, and hopefully his best.
- Bobsled Track Venue
January 10th, 1997, Olympian Jon Owen got on a luge sled and rocketed down the track at the Utah Olympic Park, becoming the first person to make a run. Since that day, over 80,000 runs have been made on this icy track.
- Torchbearers in Alaska
When the Olympic torch traveled through Alaska recently, it stirred extraordinary emotion among torchbearers and spectators. News Specialist Jed Boal tells you about some of the torchbearers.
- Aerodynamics of Ski Jumping
Our weather specialist, Len Randolph, explains the aerodynamics of Nordic jumping and how man can indeed fly.
