Jill Bakken power up in the push zone for their 80-mile-an-hour ride down the Winter Olympic bobsledding track.
-- does anyone have a complete listing of scenes in the movie? -->a bobsled hurtling down a steep ice track at the Quebec Winter Carnival, along with many other events and scenes iconic to the country.
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Three of the venues for these games (the bobsleigh run, indoor arena, and ski jump) would serve as film location for the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
In Grenoble, Romania won its first and so far only medal at the Winter Games, as Ion Panţuru and Nicolae Neagoe secured the bronze in bobsleigh's two-man event.
Rosenke was a member of the Lyndon Rush, Canada 2 crew on the World Cup Bobsleigh circuit in 2008-09, riding on the brakes position.
A professional bobsleigher since 2002, Voyevoda won silver in the four-man bobsleigh event with teammates Philippe Egorov, Alexei Seliverstov, and Alexandre Zoubkov at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Following the refusal of the Organizing Committee at Squaw Valley to construct a bobsleigh track for the 1960 Winter Olympics, he chaired the organization of the extraordinary event in Cortina d'Ampezzo that allowed bobsleigh to be held in spite of the 1960 Games.
The FIBT World Championships 2008 ran February 11–24, 2008 in Altenberg, Saxony, for the fifth time, having done so in 1991 (bobsleigh), 1994 (skeleton), 1999 (skeleton), and 2000 (men's bobsleigh).
Bobsleigh has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the first Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix, France, with the exception of the 1960 games in Squaw Valley when the organizing committee decided not to build a track in order to reduce expenses.
:Not to be confused with German bobsleigh athlete Bogdan Musiol.
The substitute on the Bobsleigh team, Claudinei Quirino, was a silver medalist in the Summer Olympic Games, where he finished second in Sydney with the Brazilian 4x100m relay team.
The only other bobsledder to compete at six Olympics is Italian Gerda Weissensteiner, although only two of her six appearances were in Bobsleigh (the other four were luge).
In 2000 she began competing in two-woman bobsled and, although she failed to make the 2002 US Olympic team, she served as Shauna Rohbock's brakeman at the 2002 World Cup in Calgary.
Originally a Muay Thai fighter, in 2006 he switched to bobsleigh to follow in his father's footsteps.
Count Renaud de la Frégeolière (29 April 1886 - 16 April 1981) was a French author who became the first president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT - International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation), serving from 1923 to 1960.
He was born in Chatham, Ontario and was selected by Vic Emery as a member of Canada's gold medal-winning four-man bobsleigh team at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Former Olympic venues including Utah Olympic Park and Utah Olympic Oval are still in operation for training and competition and allows the public to participate in numerous activities including ski jumping, bobsleigh, and speed skating.
Pensperger would be awarded a posthumous gold medal from the FIBT along with his surviving teammates Ludwig Siebert, Helmut Werzer, and Roland Ebert.
The FIBT World Championships 2015 will take place at the Winterberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Winterberg, Germany for the fourth time, after hosting the event previously in 1995 (Bobsleigh), 2000 (Women's bobsleigh), and 2003 (Women's bobsleigh).
She finished seventh in the 2-woman bobsleigh (with the former biker Antonella Bellutti, gold medalist in cycling) at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Four years later he was a member of the Italian bobsleigh team which finished 21st in the five man event.
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Giuseppe Crivelli (October 5, 1900 – November 17, 1975) was an Italian rower and bobsledder who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Winter Olympics.
Pensperger would be posthumously awarded the gold medal which Werzer and his surviving teammates Ludwig Siebert and Roland Ebert received.
His younger son, Márton Gyulai is currently member of the Hungarian bobsleigh team.
He won the first Olympic ski jumping gold medal in 1924, and became the third person (after Gillis Grafström who competed in one sport only and boxer/bobsleigh crew member Eddie Eagan) to medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics in 1936 as a member of the silver medal-winning Norwegian 8-metre sailing team.
Businessmen George B. Fitch and William Maloney proposed the idea of a Jamaican bobsleigh team after seeing a local pushcart derby in Jamaica.
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The story of the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics was turned into the 1993 movie Cool Runnings.
Saint-Calibre later was involved in the unsuccessful design for the bobsleigh course to be used for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, specifically with costs related to the course itself (USD300,000) instead of the course and its supporting area (grandstands, scoreboard, lighting, tramway, etc. which raised the cost to USD700,000).
After a distinguished athletic career she retired from running but wanted to become the first woman ever to win gold medals at both the summer and winter Olympics, by competing in and winning the inaugural two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Martins and Tomass' father, Dainis Dukurs, is a former bobsleigh brakeman, manager of the Sigulda sledding track, sled designer and coach of the Latvian skeleton team.
He also parcipitated in the bobsleigh competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where he was part of the Brazilian bobsleigh 4-crew that ranked 27th out of 29 finishing and 33 competing teams.
It also had a Matterhorn-type mountain (with a Matterhorn Bobsleds-type ride, called Bobsleigh), and the skyway running through it, as well as an Autopia-type ride and a monorail.
He is the son of Werner Delle Karth, a world championship medallist in bobsleigh and a Winter Olympian.
The bobsleigh ejected out of the end of the track and hit Pikus-Pace and teammate Lea Ann Parsley, narrowly missing three other team members.
Their bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track has hosted many world and European championships in luge.
Construction occurred between February and December 2007 on a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track which would officially open on March 10, 2008.
Pensperger would be posthumously awarded the gold medal while Ebert and his surviving teammates Ludwig Siebert and Helmut Werzer would received their golds as well.
Bill Schuffenhauer, 3x Olympian and Silver Medalist in Bobsleigh with Team USA.
Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track is a bobsleigh and luge track situated on Trebević mountain overlooking the City of Sarajevo, built for the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Serge Despres (born February 28, 1978) is a Canadian bobsledder from Cocagne, New Brunswick who competed from 2000 to 2006.
She is one of only two people to ever win a medal in both bobsleigh and luge at the Winter Olympics (Italy's Gerda Weissensteiner is the other.).
Tomass and Martins are coached by their father, Dainis Dukurs, a former bobsleigh brakeman, manager of the Sigulda sledding track and sled designer.
Pavle Jovanovic (born 1977), Bronze medal winner in the four-man bobsleigh at the FIBT World Championships 2004.
Innsbruck hosted its first Bobsleigh World Championships in 1935 in the two-man event, then hosted again in 1963 when the bobsleigh part of the track was used as a test event for the 1964 Games.