![]() ![]() Also, while lugers and skeleton people control their sled just by angling their bodies in different ways, the bobsled has a steering mechanism, controlled by the driver. While there is a two-man luge, bobsled is the only one of the three that is exclusively a team sport, with two- and four-man teams. After a sprinting start, competitors hop into the sled. Unlike the luge/skeleton sleds, which fit entirely under the racer, bobsleds are basically sliding snowcars. Skeleton features a similar sled to luge, but the racer sprints for about 40 meters before jumping head-first onto the sled. The racer, lying feet-first, yanks themselves forward off a pair of rods at the start of the track. Luge is the only one of the three where the racer starts on the sled. However, the types of sleds used in each are different, apparently a large enough difference to classify the three categories as different disciplines. ![]() All three events use the same course, an ice-covered run that drops the sleds several hundred feet with huge banking turns that the sleds must navigate at progressively higher speeds. You can further break this category into a large subcategory: "Which of us is fastest at getting down the mountain on a sled," also known as "sliding." This subcategory is luge, skeleton and bobsled. Here's why: Erin Hamlin will be participating, but, yeah, expect some German to win. He finished fifth at this last year''s world championships. The men skeleton people are less decorated, but its worth pointing out that one of them is named John Daly. Pikus-Pace's fourth-place finish in the 2010 Games was somewhat miraculous - her first sled was wrecked by a stray bobsled, and her backup was damaged in transport to the 2009 world championships, so had to build her a new sled before the Games. In skeleton, Noelle Pikus-Pace took silver at this year's world championships, and Katie Uhlaender took gold in 2012. The pairs of Elana Meyers with Lauryn Williams and Jamie Greubel with Aja Evans should both make pushes for the podium. But of America's three sleds, she's the third-most likely to medal. She'll be competing in the two-woman event. The lady sledder you know about is Lolo Jones, the Olympic hurdler who earned a lot of publicity before the last Summer Olympics because she is a very pretty lady. The four-man unit took bronze at the last world champs, while Holcomb and Langton were fourth in two-man. He's also a threat to win in the two-man, where he's joined by push athlete Steven Langton. They're led by driver Steve Holcomb, who nearly had to quit the sport due to a degenerative eye disease that almost blinded him. You might want to read SB Nation's feature about the men's four-man bobsled team, who took gold in 2010. 'Murica? The United States has really really good chances of hitting the podium in bobsled and skeleton, whereas luge is totally dominated by Germany for reasons I can't possibly comprehend. ![]()
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