Word: bobsledded
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The Winter Games are to that extent the eccentrics' Games, where athletes jump when they skate, and skate when they ski, and ski when they jump. Apart from the epochal Witt-Thomas confrontation in Calgary in 1988, what many people remember about recent Games are the Jamaican bobsled team, the...
The bobsled competitions in the last four Olympic Games were mostly free of suspense. That's because the sleds, not the athletes, were the stars. Designed with the help of wind-tunnel testing and built of advanced composite materials, the sometimes secretly developed high-tech sleds enabled some teams to...
The Winter Games, in any case, have always been the Cinderella Games, the odd Games out; a poor sister, it sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were...
BOBSLED
What is made of sleek composite fiber glass and rockets around a track like a wayward cruise missile? Not a race car or a bobsled. No, it's a high-tech chariot powered by two Arabian horses. Welcome to an ancient new sport. "Chariot racing is very fast, very colorful...