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Pierre Lueders still has something to prove
He may be the defending Olympic champion in two-man bobsleigh, but Edmonton's Pierre Lueders is still fighting to be taken seriously as a contender in 2002. But after solidifying his equipment and personnel, Lueders' Canada 1 sled is on the upswing again.
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Women's bobsleigh - A league of their own
Christina Smith chuckles when she thinks about the early days of women's bobsleigh in the mid-1990s. Back then, Canada's top female bob pilot and a handful of die-hard bobsledders paid their own way overseas to ride the world's best tracks.
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No sport has been through as many technological changes as bobsleigh. And while the Swiss, Germans and Italians have dominated the sport, few sports have seen such an eclectic collection of competitors, including Jamaicans -- not to mention an unlikely Canadian champion in Vic Emery and a Canadian prodigy in Pierre Lueders. |
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Bobsleigh is auto racing on ice -- fibreglass and steel vehicles fuelled by gravity and muscle whip around ice-covered concrete tracks, reaching speeds in excess of 150km/h. Every hundredth of a second is crucial and difficult to shave off, even with the wide array of variables in equipment, athletes and track conditions. Find out how technology, explosive starts and expert driving whittle away those fractions of a second.
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Kreisel: A type of bobsleigh run curve that forms a circle by having the track cross itself; it is the German word for circle.
Find out more about the language of Bobsleigh.
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Two-man
Is Lueders hot enough to hold off Hays?
Two-woman
Another powerful team of German sliders against Americans in turmoil
Four-man
Hays has been the man this year, but Langen wins the big ones
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