Jamaica's bobsled team aims to make history in Lake Placid Almost 40 years after a Jamaican bobsled team charmed Olympic viewers, the country's program is climbing the ranks and prompting hopes of ...

The US Olympic and Paralympic Training Committee will allow the two-time world champion in two sports into the facility July ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — The latest addition to the list of amenities available to athletes at the bobsled and skeleton world championships is a room inside a lodge just down the hill from the finish ...

Such as in Lake Placid, New York, site of the World Bobsled and Skeleton Championships that run from Thursday through March 16. These are the first bobsled and skeleton worlds to be held in the U.S.

Before the Jamaican bobsled team made its world debut in 1988, its dream of Olympic glory began with a makeshift sled and an unconventional training ground on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid.

Lake Placid would play host to bobsled, luge and skeleton events for the 2026 Olympics if a track currently being rebuilt in Italy isn't finished in time for the Milan-Cortina Games, officials ...

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced Thursday that authorites in Lake Placid have officially submitted a proposal to host the sliding events − bobsled, skeleton and luge − for ...

They don’t really give you a whole lot of the 411 before you jump into your first bobsled ride,” she told several hundred ...

DAVID ESCOBAR, BYLINE: Before that first Olympic race in 1988, the Jamaican bobsled team had just six months of training and barely enough money to get by. They practiced at the former Olympic complex ...

Almost 40 years after a Jamaican bobsled team charmed Olympic viewers, the country's program is climbing the ranks and prompting hopes of winning Jamaica's first winter Olympic medal.

The Jamaican bobsled team's underdog story became a sensation at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, inspiring the Hollywood film "Cool Runnings." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "COOL RUNNINGS") DOUG E DOUG: (As Sanka ...