(via FIBT – World Championships 2011)   As you all lay around stuffed to the gills with Thanksgiving’s feast, your thoughts might turn, as they do this time of year, to sports.  However, what if you’re tired of the usual season’s sporting fare? Glad you asked.  There is an entire winter smorgasbord of sports going on this weekend and here’s… [read article]

  It looks like Lolo Jones is a star in a new sport – and she says she wouldn’t be there without some help from her friends.  Pilot Jazmine Fenlator and brakewoman Lolo Jones had an incredible performance driving the USA-3 sled into second place at the first FIBT Bobsled World Cup of the season today in Lake Placid, NY…. [read article]

(via Wikipedia)   It’s official.  Olympic gold medalist Tianna Madison and Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones are two-sport athletes.  Madison and Jones have both been named to the US Bobsled world cup team and will be competing in Lake Placid, NY this weekend for the start of the FIBT World Cup. The two sprinters, along with rookie phenom Aja Evans, will… [read article]

(via Facebook)   You might have heard already that (infamous?) track and field star Lolo Jones was trying out for bobsled at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center.  It appears that Jones is one step closer to that goal. Jones, along with Olympic gold medalist Tianna Madison, are two of the six women named to the Bobsled National Team as… [read article]

(Picture via USA Bobsled’s Facebook Page) No. At least, not this year.  The track and field media star joined Hyleas Fountain and Tianna Madison at the 2012 US Bobsled push-start championships in Lake Placid last week after being invited by US women’s coach (and Olympian) Todd Hayes. While Jones might have been the most recognizable member of the T&F contingent competing… [read article]

  USA Bobsled just linked to this video on their Facebook page and we had to share it with you.  The man in question is taking a ride down the La Plagne Olympic bobsleigh track in France and he screams like a Frenchman running from the Germans the entire way down the track (Boom! Get it? Because it’s in France! *Sigh*).  Seriously… [read article]

  Steve Holcomb has firmly established himself as the greatest bobsled driver the US has ever fielded.  With yesterday’s win in the 4-man event, Holcomb swept the top podium at the 2012 FIBT Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships – winning every event that he entered. Holcomb and the rest of the ‘Night Train’, Super Steve Langton, Curt Tomasevicz, and Justin Olsen won… [read article]

  We’ve been awed all week at the history-making US Bobsled team.  The bobsled and skeleton athletes from the good ol’ US of A have won medals so far in every event – including the first-ever gold medal in the men’s 2-man won by Steve Holcomb and Steve Langton. Maybe you at home are sitting there thinking “Hey, that doesn’t… [read article]

(Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images)   Just days after Steve Holcomb‘s history-making run to become the first ever American to win the 2-man world title, his sled – the ‘Night Train’ (ver. 2.0) is in position to win the 4-man title as well.  The 2012 FIBT World Championships of Bobsled and Skeleton saw the start of the marquee sliding event… [read article]

  This weekend, at the 2012 FIBT Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships, Steve Holcomb and ‘Super’ Steve Langton made history by becoming the first US team to win the two-man bobsled world championship title.  Now, thanks to Universal Sports, you can watch the duo’s final world-beating run. Holcomb and Langton were monsters on the start, winning several of their 4-race… [read article]