Bobsled Track News Today

Claim a piece of skiing history as Perisher auctions off original chairs from its iconic double chairlift. Bids start at $1500.

Four decades after the 1984 Winter Olympics, Sarajevo is contending with what to do with its Olympic venues. Many are abandoned and crumbling.

The International Olympic Committee reiterated that the bobsled track for the Milan-Cortina Games has to be ready by March 2025 and that there will be no “compromise.” Italy is going ahead with a controversial, $90 million plan to rebuild the historic track in Cortina for the 2026 Winter Olympics, despite fierce opposition from the IOC. Aiming to avoid construction costs and potential white elephant venues, the IOC wanted Italy to use an existing track — with two nearby op...

The International Olympic Committee is still not impressed with Italy’s determination to spend about $90 million rebuilding a historic bobsled track for the 2026 Winter Games. The IOC’s latest statement Wednesday on the public rift came one day after local organizers of the Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Olympics moved ahead with a plan to revive a century-old sliding track in the Dolomites ski resort. Aiming to avoid construction costs and potential white elephant venues, the IO...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Organizers for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics are convinced that they can build a bobsled track in record time amid a standoff with the IOC, which wants an existing foreign venue used instead to cut costs. Italian luger Armin Zöggeler, who won medals at a record six consecutive Winter Games, said the International Olympic Committee’s suggestion of using tracks in nearby Austria or Switzerland doesn’t make sense because neither faci...

Does seem to be understanding it just a little bit anyway. whoa, whoa, we cant just force these things on a city or a country. so in the case of sweden, theyre looking out to another country, latvia, so that they dont have to build a bobsled track, and in the case of italy, they would, again, use a lot of existing facilities across that region. so thats where we are now, and i think there may be a little sanity, a little prudence coming into the conversation, although its certainly late to the g...

>>ing it just a little bit anyway and saying, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, we cant just force these things on a city or a country. so in the case of sweden, theyre looking out to another country, latvia, so that they dont have to build a bobsled track, and in the case of italy, they would, again, use a lot of existing facilities across that region. so thats where we are now, and i think there may be a little sanity, a little prudence coming into the conversation, although its certainly late to the ga...

Metal table. the race came down to this heart pounding sprint. a dramatic ending as alexander crossed the finish line .7 a second ahead. a one-two-three sweep for team russia. on the bobsled track russia piloted the four man team to the pop of the podium. russia clinching the lead by less than a .1 of a second. the race marked a historic victory for team usa as well. stephen holcomb stirred the americans to bronze securing the place by .300 of a second. the 33-year-old becoming the

That keeps skaters from staying in the low position. they need to achieve their maximum speed. the u.s. is threw half of its races and still hasnt medaled in that sport. a scary moment on the bobsled track at sochi yesterday. a worker on the track at the sliding center was struck by a four-runner sled on a test run. video revealing three men were working near the finish line before two jumped over the wall to escape and then the one is hit by that on coming sled and he suffered two broken legs...

The bobsled track in sochi. it was only two weeks ago but the memories are fresh. children stuck on school buses all night, drivers behind the wheel for more than 24 hours praying not to run out of gas, praying to get home. at least eight people died because of traffic problems in the northeast. and now another storm is roaring into the same region and officials say the region will not be caught with its snow pants down again. >> were not kidding. were not just crying wolf. it is serious busines...