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Bobsleigh
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Lange defends bobsleigh crown
Canada's Pierre Lueders proclaimed before the Christmas break that the driver to beat in both the two- and four-man bobsleigh events at the Torino Olympics would be German Andre Lange.
- Bobsleigh gold for Germany's Kiriasis
- Lueders takes on Lange in bobsleigh
- Lueders slides to Olympic silver
- Brazilian bobsledder tests positive
- Lueders nabs 2nd World Cup title
- Lueders captures World Cup title
- Bobsleigh, skeleton teams named
- Lueders captures bobsleigh silver
- Germans rally for bobsleigh victory; Canada 4th
- Bobsledder now a Canadian
- Upperton makes bobsleigh history
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Crib Sheet
Year world’s first bobsleigh club was formed: 1897, St. Moritz, Switzerland
First European Bobsleigh championships: 1914, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Year Canada’s first bobsleigh run was built: 1911, Montebello, Que.
Year the Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT) was founded: 1923
First Canadians to win Olympic bobsleigh gold: Vic and John Emery, Peter Kirby, Douglas Anakin, four-man event, 1964 Innsbruck
First Canadian duo to win bobsleigh gold: Pierre Lueders and Dave MacEachern, 1998 Nagano
First athlete to win three straight world championships in the four-man event: Andre Lange, Germany (2003-2005)
Maximum combined weight of sled and team in two-man event: 390 kg
Maximum combined weight of sled and team in four-man event: 630 kg
First country to win Olympic gold in four-man event: Switzerland, 1924 Chamonix
First Olympic gold medallists in two-man event: J. Hubert Steven and Curtis Stevens, U.S., 1932 Lake Placid
Most Olympic bobsleigh gold medals: 2, Wolfgang Hoppe, East Germany/Germany (1984-1988) and Eugenio Monti, Italy, 1968 Grenoble
Most Olympic bobsleigh medals: 7, Bogdan Musiol, East Germany/Germany (1980-1992)
Olympic women’s two-man event debuted: 2002 Salt Lake City
First women gold medallists: Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers, U.S., 2002 Lake Lake City
First black gold medallist in Winter Olympics, Vonetta Flowers, U.S., 2002 Salt Lake City
First person to build all-steel sled, which allowed shock absorbers to increase speed: Bill Linney, U.S., 1946
Minimum length of an Olympic bobsleigh track: 1,500m
Minimum numbers of curves of an Olympic bobsleigh track: 15