10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOBSLED»
Discover the use of
bobsled in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bobsled and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Yes, I Can!: The Story of the Jamaican
Bobsled Team
Retells the story of the first Jamaican bobsled team as they struggled against adversity to compete in the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary.
2
A Basic Guide to Bobsledding
Provides information on such aspects of bobsledding as the history of the sport, sleds, clothing and safety, training, nutrition and first aid, and more. Describes Olympic and bobsledding organizations.
United States Olympic Committee, 2002
3
Exercise and Sport Science
Table 4-12 presents complete statistics on athletes selected and not selected for
the world championship team in 1995. Dry-Land Simulated Push The National
Bobsled Push Championships take place in August on the Lake Placid push
track.
William E. Garrett, Donald T. Kirkendall, 2000
4
Head First Physics: A Learner's Companion to Mechanics and ...
Surely if that was happening, the bobsled would just fall straight down, off the
track. A: To make it around the loop, the bobsled must already be traveling very
fast horizontally when it gets to the top of the circle. So it couldn't possibly fall
straight ...
Just how cool the U.S. bobsled is will be determined February 12 through 27 at
the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. From an American standpoint, the
bobsled event is of particular interest. For the first time in many years, the United
...
Wallechinsky, sled pusher Geoffrey Mason showed up for practice a couple of
weeks before the Olympics, won a gold medal, then never rode in an
international bobsled race again. At the 1932 Games, defending champion Fiske
was back, ...
7
Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
As the bobsled became a more frequent sight, and specific roads were used on a
more regular basis, organized clubs developed, the first founded in 1896 by Lord
Francis Helmsley of Britain at St. Moritz, the spiritual home of the bobsled.
David Levinson, Karen Christensen, 1999
8
The Visual Dictionary of Sports & Games - Sports & Games
Sport that consists of racing down an icy track on a two- or four-person bobsled;
bobsleds reach speeds of over 85 mph. four-person bobsled Bobsled: vehicle on
runners that has steering and braking systems; the fourperson bobsled team ...
9
The Engineering of Sport 6: Volume 3: Developments for ...
Volume 3: Developments for Innovation Eckehard Moritz, Steve Haake.
Manufacturing of Bobsled Runners Michael F. Zaeh1 and Paul Gebhard2 1 TU
Munich, Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management, Michael.
Eckehard Moritz, Steve Haake, 2010
10
Exploding Disk Cannons, Slimemobiles, and 32 Other Projects ...
of mass Mb per unit area, and that the bobsled area is A. The effect of the balls is
equivalent to adding a mass of half the mass NAMb of the NA accelerated balls to
the vehicle mass M. The bobsled thus behaves like a vehicle of mass Meff, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOBSLED»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
bobsled is used in the context of the following news items.
Ken Dixon: Gambling with death on holiday roads
How about in that alleged 50-mph zone along Interstate-84 in Danbury that's kind of like as asphalt bobsled run? Or maybe the tight, 45-mph ... «CT Post, Jul 15»
Paige Selenski shares the tricks of the trade
A teammate and I have joked that we're going to try out for the bobsled team. But it's not really a joke. We're both really quick. We may give it a ... «ESPN, Jul 15»
Go beyond the bike with these weird vehicles
Velomobile: Picture yourself nestled in a three-wheeled bobsled, minus the track and breakneck speeds, and you get the idea behind a ... «San Antonio Express-News, Jul 15»
Malik Yoba on Cool Runnings, Arrested Development, and dying on …
For me, Cool Runnings was amazing because I always wanted to bobsled and go to the Olympics. So that was a trip, in terms of creative ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jul 15»
Olympic bobsled champion Kaillie Humphries leads annual Calgary …
CALGARY - Two-time Olympic bobsled champion Kaillie Humphries sported a gold-medal smile Friday as she presided over the kickoff to the ... «580 CFRA Radio, Jul 15»
Olympic bobsled, skeleton tryouts coming to Rockford
That's the price to register for a combine to be held July 12 at Guilford High School that will help find athletes for the U.S. bobsled and skeleton ... «Rockford Register Star, Jul 15»
Slovak Sprinter a Likely Force at Tour de France
While training in Park City, Utah, in May, Sagan, an adrenaline junkie, took a spin down the bobsled track at the Utah Olympic Park. “It was very ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Rec Report, July 4, 2015
Summer activities include the Comet Bobsled ride, zip lines, three adventure courses, an alpine slide, a drop tower, Flying Ace All-Star shows ... «The Park Record, Jul 15»
Top 10 roller coasters at Virginia's Kings Dominion
The 1988 ride is one of the last bobsled coasters still operating in the world, according to Roller Coaster Database. Such coasters first gained ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
Utah Olympic Legacy offers memberships
Home to Nordic ski jumping, bobsled, skeleton and luge competitions during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, the Utah Olympic Park has ... «The Park Record, Jun 15»
