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BMW's California design studio designs bobsled for U.S. national team
Usually, BMW doesn’t want its vehicles to slide freely on ice. But that’s exactly the goal of its latest project – developing a two-man bobsled for the U.S. men’s bobsled team. The sled raced for the first time at the FIBT...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Two Man Sled, Media Industry, 2010 Winter Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup
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Roller Coaster Capital: Cedar Point or Magic Mountain?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCedar Point and Six Flags Magic Mountain have been battling over the coveted title of Roller Coaster Capital of the World for years. The two parks were tied, with a record 17 roller coasters apiece, until the Six Flags amusement park in Valencia added...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Rivers, Six Flags Inc., Amusement and Theme Parks, Sports
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Flying Turns roller coaster: Will we ever get to ride this replica of a relic?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterReporting from Knoebels in Elysburg, Pa.-- Over the last five summers, the most anticipated roller coaster hasn’t been a towering, looping speed demon but rather a slow, squat and serpentine 1930s-era replica that disappeared from the amusement...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gardens and Parks, Theme Park Vacations, John Bartlett
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U.S. companies paying majority of Olympic freight again
L.A. Times Olympics BlogBy Philip Hersh News and comment: News: U.S. Olympic Committee sponsor Proctor & Gamble will announce Wednesday it has become an International Olympic Committee global sponsor as well. Comment: Another plus for the USOC in its efforts to regain... -
Philip Hersh: Women ski jumpers take foggy leap of faith toward Olympics
The Fabulous ForumThe fog in Oslo, Norway was so thick Friday that spectators at the bottom of the windswept ski-jump hill at the World Nordic Ski Championships could see little more than the moment the women athletes skied through the finish area....... -
Shawn Johnson (backflip over a bobsled) vs. Apolo Anton Ohno (skating down a bobsled track)
The Fabulous ForumWell, the latest viral videos to hit the Internet is here, and it features 2008 Olympics gymnastics gold medalist Shawn Johnson vs. 2006 short-track speedskating gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno. In the videos, Ohno challenges Johnson to backflip over a....... -
Bobsled: All aboard the Night Train
L.A. Times Olympics BlogThe U.S. will contend for medals in several Olympics sledding events, including possible gold for the four-man bobsled team led by driver Steve Holcomb, the current world champion. His No. 1 team uses a high-tech black sled known as the...... -
Mark Grimmette: "I'm still shaking" after being chosen to carry U.S. flag
L.A. Times Olympics BlogIt was only fitting that U.S. Olympic flag bearer Mark Grimmette learned about his selection from his doubles teammate, Brian Martin. Grimmette, of Muskegon, Mich., and Martin, of Palo Alto, have teamed to become the most successful luge duo in...... -
Controversy in, you guessed it, skeleton
L.A. Times Olympics BlogWhat would an Olympics be without a controversy in the sliding sports? For such relatively tiny sports that joined the Winter Games fairly recently, luge, a 1964 arrival, and skeleton, a 2002 addition, always manage to gin up a good...... -
Watch out, readers, Gary Hall Jr. is back
L.A. Times Olympics BlogI was fortunate to submit coverage of the Beijing Olympics to the Los Angeles Times website and it is my great privilege to be covering the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.In the world of journalism I'm known as a triple...... -
Germany's Andre Lange wins another bobsled gold medal
L.A. Times Olympics BlogGermany's Andre Lange has won the Olympic two-man bobsled, his record fourth gold medal. Lange and brakeman Kevin Kuske completed their four runs in 3 minutes, 26.65 seconds. Germany's Thomas Florschuetz finished second in 3:26.87 to win silver, and... -
Canada leads in women's bobsled; U.S. team in second place
L.A. Times Olympics BlogKaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse of Canada have the lead midway through the women's bobsled competition at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, but barely ahead of Erin Pac and Elana Meyers of the United States. Humphries and Moyse drove Canada-1 down......
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