14 hours ago · How does bobsled work at the Olympics? Winter Olympic bobsled races take place over four heats across two days. All four runs are added together for a total time.

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh.

Jul 22, 2025 · Learn how Olympic bobsled works — explore the competition format for all events (2-man, 4-man, 2-woman, monobob), how races are timed, how teams qualify, and the rules …

Bobsledding, the sport of sliding down an ice-covered natural or artificial incline on a four-runner sled, called a bobsled, bobsleigh, or bob, that carries either two or four persons. Learn more …

Jan 6, 2026 · What to know about bobsled at the Winter Olympics: The Germans vs. everyone else Fun fact: If a team crashes, they stay in the competition if the sled crosses the finish line.

Explore news, results, and updates about the Milano Cortina 2026 Bobsled Team. Learn more about Team USA's competing athletes and their Olympic Games experience.

Bobsleigh was invented by the Swiss in the late 1860s. A sport in which athletes must have nerves of steel, pilots must navigate high-tech sleds down a narrow, winding track carved into …

American bobsledder Kris Horn avoided serious injuries after surviving a solo ride down a track during a World Cup race in Switzerland.

By 1914, bobsled races were taking place on a wide variety of natural ice courses. The first racing sleds were made of wood but were soon replaced by steel sleds that came to be known as …

USA Bobsled/Skeleton (USABS) is the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sports of bobsled and skeleton in the United States, representing Team USA on the world stage.