• The 62-year-old Italian, head of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, won a disputed election in Geneva in May when International Ski Federation (FIS) President Johan Eliasch disputed the validity of the election of the seven winter sports. (insidethegames.biz)
  • He is the President of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) since 2010, IOC Member since 2016 and President of the Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations (AIOWF) since 2020. (worldraftingfederation.com)
  • Prices fall in 1986, then recover in 1987 followed by a decline in 1988. (politifact.com)
  • From the addition of the ski jumping towers and bobsleigh, luge and skeleton track for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, to. (thereflector.ca)
  • From there he moved on to coaching and management before serving as the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton competition manager for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. (insidethegames.biz)
  • 3. Canada Olympic Park (now Winsport)- Host venue for the ski jump, bobsled and luge in 1988 and now a year round sporting destination for Calgarians. (rossaitken.ca)
  • Johnson returned for his 10th Olympic assignment with NBC Sports during the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, where he served as a bobsled, luge and skeleton reporter. (nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com)
  • A veteran of 10 Olympic Games, Johnson has served as an on-site reporter for various Olympic disciplines during his tenure with NBC Sports, including bobsled, luge and skeleton, marathon, track and field, alpine skiing and diving. (nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com)
  • He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers , with whom he recorded five studio albums, and of whom he was a member from 1988 until 1992 and again from 1998 until 2009. (radioswissclassic.ch)
  • It is quite an impressive moment for Jamaica, as they continue to develop in the sport of Bobsled which they first competed in, in the year 1988 then successively in 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, and then 2014. (yardhype.com)
  • After an All-American track career at the University of Cincinnati, Johnson competed professionally in Europe for seven years where he was ranked in the Top 10 in the U.S. at 800 meters and competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1988 and 1992. (nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com)
  • Stated Secretary General of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation and member of the 1988 team, Devon Harris from his office in New York. (jamaicans.com)
  • About the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation: The Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation (JBF) Ltd. is the governing body for the sport of bobsleigh and skeleton in Jamaica. (jamaicans.com)
  • Ferriani was first elected AIOWF President during an online meeting two years ago when he replaced Gian Franco Kasper, the former President of the International Ski Federation, who retired from the position having only served half of his last term. (insidethegames.biz)
  • As a way forward The Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (JBSF), are now looking to have new sleds in preparation for the 2022 winter Olympics that is set for Beijing and as such are seeking funding with a target of $194,000 to purchase two monobobs at $27000 for each one and $140,000 to get a four-man bobsled. (yardhype.com)
  • Ferriani was a bobsleigh athlete from 1982 until 1990 and participated in the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary. (insidethegames.biz)
  • Latvian bobsleighers picked up medals for the Soviet Union at the 1984 Games in Sarejevo and in 1988 at Calgary. (latviansonline.com)
  • Apart from Herschel Walker, the registry has included several other football players, with wide receiver Willie Gault, who was an alternate in 1988 in Calgary and is possibly best known for his role with the '85 Chicago Bears-as lead singer of the 'Super Bowl Shuffle'-as the most widely remembered. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The Olympic buzz has arrived in Calgary, and for some, it is stirring up memories from 30 years ago. (rossaitken.ca)
  • I recently saw a photo of my friends decked out in their best 1988 Calgary Olympic Games attire and posing with Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards (former Olympian, ski jumper and fan favourite at the '88 Games). (rossaitken.ca)
  • Seeing those jackets brought me back to 1988, when I was a 10 year old boy growing up in SE Calgary. (rossaitken.ca)
  • Calgary won the right to host the 1988 Games after a vote by IOC members in 1981, leading the vote over Falun, Sweden by a 48-31 margin. (rossaitken.ca)
  • Even before the opening ceremonies, the 1988 Olympics thrust Calgary into the spotlight on the world stage. (rossaitken.ca)
  • Since 1988, Calgary has played host to over 300 national and international sporting competitions, more than any other city in North America! (rossaitken.ca)
  • In Sochi (2014), Canada won 25 medals, placing 4th overall compared to 3 medals (16th place overall) in Calgary in 1988. (rossaitken.ca)
  • The men's European Skeleton Championships were held separately in 1981-1988 before resuming in 2003 when women's skeleton event was added as well. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other Latvian athletes have also been competing in the short-track, biathlon, women's skeleton, cross-country and downhill skiing but they have finished far from the podium. (latviansonline.com)
  • It wasn't what reigning world skeleton champion Martins Dukurs was hoping for but it was a silver medal for Latvia nevertheless. (latviansonline.com)
  • The members of the defending Olympic champion U.S. men's four-man team-commonly known as the Night Train because of its notorious primer black sled-which became the first American team to win a medal in more than 50 years when it took gold in Vancouver in 2010, all transitioned from other sports. (thedailybeast.com)
  • 6. Olympic Plaza - The home to medal presentations during the 1988 Games. (rossaitken.ca)
  • Since hosting the winter games in 1988, Canada's medal count has increased significantly. (rossaitken.ca)
  • A member of the Triple Gold Club, Jonathan Toews made his Olympic debut at Vancouver 2010 where he led Canada in scoring with one goal and seven assists en route to the gold medal on home ice. (olympic.ca)
  • As one Aboriginal gay athlete told me some years ago during the Gay Games in Sydney in 2002, "the white man came and destroyed our culture, our traditions and our history-including same-sexuality history. (globalgayz.com)
  • Solonas died of pneumonia at the Bristol Hotel in San Francisco in 1988 at the age of 52. (outinperth.com)
  • Eliasch then left the meeting and Ferriani was elected to a new four-year term, receiving all five votes, considering his own abstention. (insidethegames.biz)
  • Mr Ferriani begins his term as President immediately and will serve a two-year mandate, congratulating the outgoing President Raffaele Chiulli. (worldraftingfederation.com)
  • by Blaine Meller Over the years, Canada Olympic Park has undergone significant changes. (thereflector.ca)
  • For nearly 15 years now, insidethegames.biz has been at the forefront of reporting fearlessly on what happens in the Olympic Movement. (insidethegames.biz)
  • Our small and dedicated team were extremely busy last year covering the re-arranged Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, an unprecedented logistical challenge that stretched our tight resources to the limit. (insidethegames.biz)
  • Malcolm Arnold, who coached athletes to Olympic, World and Commonwealth titles during a 20-year career at the University of Bath, has been honoured at the IOC [International Olympic Committee] Coaches Lifetime Achievement Awards in Lausanne, Switzerland. (teambath.com)
  • The legendary track and field coach received the award from 1988 Olympic pole vault champion Sergey Bubka, now Chair of the IOC Athletes' Entourage Commission, during a ceremony at The Olympics Museum. (teambath.com)
  • This was the 1988 Olympic location, where the Jamaican team made their famous debut. (xsportnet.com)
  • Track and field star Lolo Jones may earn a spot on the Olympic bobsled squad after only one year of training. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Regardless of the outcome, after only a year of training and competing, both-Jones, a two-time Olympic hurdler, and Williams, the 100-meter silver medalist at the 2004 Games in Athens and member of the 2012 4x100 relay team that took gold in London-are making a strong case for being named to the team. (thedailybeast.com)
  • 2. The Olympic Oval - Home to the National Speedskating Team and used by hundreds of international athletes over the years. (rossaitken.ca)
  • It's also a bold statement, considering that the Graves Museum, the only natural history museum in South Florida, counts among its collection thousands of priceless pre-Columbian artifacts and one of the world's most important dinosaur skeletons. (browardpalmbeach.com)
  • The team selections will be opened to men and women of Jamaican descent, 18-23 years of age. (jamaicans.com)
  • World Rafting is delighted to announce the nominees for the World Rafting Athletes & Coach of the Year 2021. (worldraftingfederation.com)
  • The World Rafting Awards will recognise athletes who have performed at the highest level across the year, taking into account not only the Senior World Championships, but also the national events. (worldraftingfederation.com)
  • The best Athletes and Coach of the Year will be announced on 10 February. (worldraftingfederation.com)
  • Bobsledders, lugers, and skeleton athletes cruise down an icy track, in some cases with their faces just inches from the frozen surface, at upwards of 100 miles an hour. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The two are not nearly the first athletes from another sport who attempted to transition to this favorite event, also referred to as bobsleigh, of the Winter Games. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Built for the Games, these facilities have been used by Calgarians, visitors and training athletes for the past 30 years. (rossaitken.ca)
  • Back to the Future was written by Bob Gale and directed by Robert Zemeckis and became the highest-grossing movie in 1985, raking in more than $381 million. (listverse.com)
  • Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew. (radioswissjazz.ch)
  • The only science fiction story in Skeleton Crew has been "The Jaunt" which felt just like Rod Serling on an off day, all exposition and using a sting which felt more formulaic than new. (stephenkingaudiobook.net)
  • In 1980 the Soviet Union turned its attention to the bobsleigh and Latvian luger Ronalds Upatnieks was tapped as its first bobsleigh coach. (latviansonline.com)
  • Michael Fleisher by Bob Smith, 1980. (tcj.com)
  • I stayed there a year, and I vowed that I would never work again except as a writer," he told The Comics Journal in 1980. (tcj.com)
  • YOU BETTER WATCH OUT (1980): "You're blaming me for all the horrible things you've done because of something I said when I was six years old? (hudsonlee.com)
  • 4. Nakiska - Host mountain for the all events downhill skiing in 1988 and now owned by the Resorts of Canadian Rockies. (rossaitken.ca)
  • It was a weekend to remember for the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh squad as Brad Hall and Greg Cackett recorded the country's best World Cup 2-man bobsleigh result this millennium. (teambath.com)
  • In terms of the two-man-led bobsled team, Jamaica first entered the competition in the year 2018, in Pyeongchang, China. (yardhype.com)
  • The team is led by grizzled veteran and hockey legend Sandis Ozoliņš who despite being 41 years old logged lots of ice team and even though a defenceman, he was often in deep reminiscent of his thrilling play years ago while in his prime. (latviansonline.com)
  • Toews also appeared at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey where he served as Canada's alternate captain en route to gold. (olympic.ca)
  • The highly-rated 18-year-old from Devon is the latest homegrown talent to progress through the Team Bath Futures Pathway to the senior ranks having previously represented the Blue & Gold at U17, U19 and U21 level. (teambath.com)
  • Photo: Bob Hsiang. (cdlib.org)
  • Today the skeleton of a finely-cut stone church (photo left) with an elegant steeple stands as testimony to the degree of skill these young people developed. (globalgayz.com)
  • 1969). Después llegarían películas como The Cowboys (1972) -asesinando al personaje de John Wayne- y junto a Jack Nicholson en The King of Marvin Gardens (1972). (geneastar.org)
  • Uno de sus personajes más conocidos es el de Freeman Lowell, en la película de ciencia ficción Naves misteriosas (1972), pero también tiene otros papeles conocidos como el de Tom Buchanan en The Great Gatsby y el del capitán Bob Hyde en Coming Home, por el que recibió una nominación a los Óscar. (geneastar.org)
  • El rey de Marvin Gardens (The King of Marvin Gardens, 1972), de Bob Rafelson. (geneastar.org)
  • He had one four years ago at the Games in Whistler. (latviansonline.com)
  • There are many more options for you to enjoy other than bobsledding such as bob raft, skeleton, and gladiator styled battle games. (xsportnet.com)
  • Johnson twice joined Bob Costas in the studio to report on breaking news: first to report on U.S. shot-putter C.J. Hunter's pre-Games positive doping charge and again when French sprinter Maria Jose-Perec mysteriously fled Australia. (nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com)
  • Last year, nearly 25 million people read insidethegames.biz , making us by far the biggest source of independent news on what is happening in world sport. (insidethegames.biz)
  • The best thing about it is that you do not need to train for years before you attempt this incredible sport. (xsportnet.com)
  • Toews would go on to compete at the 2007 IIHF World Championship, where he became the first Canadian to win gold at the junior and senior world championships in the same year. (olympic.ca)
  • With his first Stanley Cup victory, he came the youngest ever member of the Triple Gold Club at just 22 years and 41 days old. (olympic.ca)
  • Some are sitting in open wooden shelving, others are in cardboard file boxes, and the rest are in old storage cases," says Bob Dundas , department chair and associate professor of vertebrate paleontology at Cal State Fresno, who led a major curatorial project on the fossils when he was a Ph.D. student at Cal in the early '90s. (berkeley.edu)
  • The following year both the women's bobsleigh and skeleton events were merged with the men's bobsleigh events at the European Championships. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since then, all bobsleigh and skeleton events are usually competes at the same time and venue (with few exceptions). (wikipedia.org)
  • The European Bobsleigh and Skeleton Championships are the main bobsleigh and skeleton championships in Europe. (wikipedia.org)
  • Santa Claus Worldwide" tracks the evolution of these figures from the tribal priests who presided over winter solstice celebrations thousands of years before the birth of Christ, to Christian notables like St. Martin and St. Nicholas, to a variety of secular figures who emerged throughout Europe following the Protestant Reformation. (midwestbookreview.com)
  • Latvia has two crews in the two man bobsleigh which takes place on February 16-17 and two in the four man on February 22-23. (latviansonline.com)
  • Three years ago the museum's board of governors parted ways with its eponymous director, Gypsy Graves, and severed ties with the Broward County Archaeological Society (BCAS), the organization of avid amateur archaeologists and paleontologists that owned the place until 1996. (browardpalmbeach.com)
  • I am very much looking forward to bringing my sporting experience to serve all GAISF's Members, Associate Members and Observers, and to support them over the next two years. (worldraftingfederation.com)
  • The back-row forward, who is in the first year of an Economics degree at the University of Bath, has been a regular for the Blue & Gold - sponsored by Fulkers Bailey Russell - this season and has previously represented his country at U19 level against England and Japan. (teambath.com)
  • You had critters wandering around the landscape for tens of thousands of years and getting stuck in the tar. (berkeley.edu)
  • Nothing is known about same-sex attraction among the Aborigines who inhabited Tasmania for thousands of years before the arrival of white prisoners, military guards and settlers. (globalgayz.com)
  • Birth year given as 1925. (msu.edu)
  • University of Bath-based Brad Hall and Greg Cackett made history as they recorded Great Britain's best World Cup two-man bobsleigh result since records began by winning silver at Igls, Austria. (teambath.com)
  • Corley represents the president in his personal matters, a job she assumed last year when Robert Bauer left Perkins Coie to become White House counsel. (typepad.com)
  • He told me around the end of last year, he had just got a twenty some year old tune cut, and was almost as excited as when we got our first one. (spoonercentral.com)
  • One could receive a sentence of seven years exile for petty theft or forgery or politcal activism. (globalgayz.com)
  • After seven years' service as a naval officer, Carter returned to Plains. (brookstonbeerbulletin.com)
  • Along with that thought, an old song from well over 50 years ago popped into my head. (spoonercentral.com)
  • After over 20 years, it requires three books to round up all of the Stephen King short fiction he feels is fit to print. (stephenkingaudiobook.net)
  • Many of the songs on this demo appeared thirteen years later as the record The Lost Cabin Sessions . (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to bobsledding, this location is near the Whiteface Mountain where you get to enjoy skiing, ice skating, boarding, zip-lining, mountain biking and of course skeleton which is only for the bold. (xsportnet.com)
  • In the past fifty years, shopping - and its associated carbon footprint - has grown exponentially. (midwestbookreview.com)
  • This rare and sensational artifact emblematic of the grunge icon's early years-his go to and favorite guitar the Fender Mustang played on Nirvana's first road tour that was smashed and signed by the future rock and roll icon-makes this one of the quintessential and important Kurt Cobain guitars in rock history. (juliensauctions.com)
  • The ping of our free daily email alert, sent every morning at 6.30am UK time 365 days a year, landing in their inbox, is as a familiar part of their day as their first cup of coffee. (insidethegames.biz)
  • A year later, Frusciante and his mother moved to Mar Vista, Los Angeles with his new stepfather who, he says, "really supported me and made me feel good about being an artist. (radioswissclassic.ch)