Bobsledding News

Since starting her mushing career in 2006, Mariah Ahlert has raced in places like Montana, Wisconsin and Minnesota races in Frazee and Bemidji.

Knowing plenty of eyes will be on their sleds during the Olympic season, the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams have come up with a way to capitalize.

Which form of bobsledding is best for spectating? This weekend, northern Utahns have the opportunity of seeing the world cup of bobsledding/skeleton in Park City for free .

Germany's Cathleen Martini has won the women's bobsled World Cup season opener, driving her way to victory on the 2002 Olympic track for the second straight year.

Alex Gough of Canada takes part in a luge training run at the Olympic Sliding Centre in Whistler, British Columbia November 12, 2009.

Neary, Kathleen Seiler. "How Sled Dogs Work." 14 January 2008. HowStuffWorks.com. 09 November 2009.

If you've never seen a game of sled hockey, you're about to get your chance. The St.

Conger, Cristen. "Are sled dogs a help or hindrance in the Alaskan wilderness?." 14 April 2008.

A U.S. Olympic skeleton competitor at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, Utah in 2001.

Michelle Kelly's quest to reach the Olympics has resumed. An appeals panel voted unanimously Tuesday to reinstate the Canadian skeleton racer after she was disqualified last month for using improper sled runners.

Wilson, Tracy V. "How Bobsledding Works." 13 February 2006. HowStuffWorks.com. 09 November 2009.

The Canada I two-man bobsleigh team of driver Pierre Leuders and brakeman David MacEachern and the Italy I two-man bobsleigh team of driver Guenther Huber and brakeman Antonio Tartaglia celebrate their joint gold medal win at the Nagano Olympic Games, Feb.

Handout photos from VANOC of Day 7 on the Olympic Torch Relay of sled dogs, Wednesday, November 5, 2009.

Canadian bobsledders, driver Helen Upperton and Jenny Ciochetti, raced their sled to a first-place tie with Germany's Cathleen Martini after the first heat of the Viessmann Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary in November 2007.

There's an old Burmese proverb that says: In time of test, family is best. Kaillie Humphries - Canadian World Cup bobsled pilot - can wax as eloquently about those closest to her as any philosopher.

The official name for the most terrifying patch of track at the Whistler Sliding Centre is Corner 13.

Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse celebrate their second place finish at World Cup bobsleigh at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, B.C., last season.

More than two decades later, the story hasn't changed for the fabled Jamaican bobsled team.

The sixth day of the Olympic torch relay was spent in the most remote native community in all of Canada, a famous town so far north and so far west in the Yukon that it's almost off the map.

Canada's best bobsleigh athletes were in the spotlight this week at the Whistler Sliding Centre, feeling the eyes of the international teams in town for the designated training weeks upon them as they take to the Whistler track.