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Following the decision of the IOC Executive Board to shortlist the four Candidate Cities of Harbi...
VANCOUVER 2010: IOC President discusses Games with local leaders
During his three-day visit to Vancouver this week, IOC President Jacques Rogge was able to discus...
VANCOUVER 2010: IOC President visits Games venues
The IOC President Jacques Rogge is in the 2010 Olympic Winter Host City of Vancouver this week an...
VANCOUVER 2010: IOC President and Commission to Visit
This week will see IOC President Jacques Rogge and the IOC Coordination Commission for the Vancou...
VANCOUVER 2010: With Two Years To Go, VANOC Launches Volunteer Programme
With only two years to go until the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the Vancouv...
Vancouver 2010: Whistler Competition Venues Completed
Construction has been completed on all three of the Whistler Olympic and Paralympic competition v...
IOC Executive Board Approves Vancouver Sports Schedules
The IOC Executive Board (EB) yesterday approved a number of decisions related to the Vancouver 20...
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Bobsledding:
Bobsledding, Bobsleigh, bobsled (United States and Canada) or bobsledge (Brazil) is a winter sport invented by Englishmen in the late 1860s in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks was built in St Moritz, where the original bobsleds were adapted upsized Luge/Skeleton sleds designed by the adventurously wealthy to carry passengers. All three types were adapted from boys delivery sleds and toboggans. Competition naturally followed, and to protect the working class and rich visitors in the streets and byways of St Moritz, hotel owner Caspar Badrutt, owner of the historic Krup Hotel and the later Palace Hotel built the first familiarly configured 'half-pipe' track circa 1870. It has hosted the sports during two Olympics and is still in use today.
International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT). National competitions are often governed by bodies such as the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation and Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton.
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