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Bobsleigh
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Bobsleigh
Did you know
-Luge
-Skeleton
Brakeman
The last teammate to enter the bobsled at the start of the race. He/she is responsible for pulling the brake to stop the sled at the end of the run.
Driver
The first person to enter the sled at the start, this athlete sits at the front of the bobsled and steers.
G-Force
Gravitational force that holds the sled and athletes on the wall of a banked turn. A G is equal to the force of gravity.
Kreisel
From the German word for circle, this refers to a turn on a course that loops underneath or above to form a circle. The Whistler Sliding Centre track does not have a kreisel.
Labyrinth
A stretch of track made up entirely of a series of left and right curves with no straight sections in between.
aLine
The precise path or the optimum trajectory of the sled. The driver can achieve a good race time by keeping to the trajectory.
Lip
A protective barrier at the top of the sliding track.
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The process of athletes entering the sled after the push start.
Omega
A curve on the track shaped like the letter Omega in the Greek alphabet.
Push
The sled is pushed as hard as possible over a 50 to 60-metre stretch to provide momentum at the start.
Did you know
How bobsleigh works
bobseighing is a fast aerodynamic sport.The racers must push off as fast as they can for about 50 meter's.They have to jump into the bobseigh and get seated fast.The diver has to steer down the track and at the end of the run .The brakeman has to stop the sled.
- 150 years ago in the mid-19th century. A British tourists started to toboggan on the snowbound roads of the alps.in 2002 the woman were allowed to compete in the Bobsleigh at the Salt Lake Olympic winter games. the four man Bobseigh gamewas on of the first olympic winter games in 1924 in Chamonix,france.
The men compete with two or four- men in a bobsleigh and woman compete in a two-person format and the most combined time measured is 0.01 of a second.
Photogallery
That there is three Olympic bobsleigh event
-Bobsleigh
sport terms
The four heats are held over two days
History
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