Olympics-Bobsleigh-Weight limits exclude larger women, competitors say
By David Kirton
Bobsleigh Sport News
Bobsleigh-Weight limits exclude larger women, competitors say
YANQING, China : As the women's bobsleigh teams prepare to push to their limits in the Olympic competition starting on Friday, come competitors believe they are also pushing against a different kind of limitation - one placed on their weight.
Bobsleigh-Brazil's Bindilatti having a blast in training ahead of his final race
YANQING, China : Brazilian pilot Edson Luques Bindilatti is having a great time in training ahead of what will be the last race of his 20-year Olympic career, and is preparing to guide the next generation in the sport.
Montell Douglas column: Life at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
Montell Douglas is a Team GB bobsleigh brakewoman, set to race with Mica McNeill at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She is also a former sprinter for Great Britain, competing in the 100m and relay at the 2008 summer Olympics, also in Beijing. This is her fourth BBC Sport column.
Beijing 2022: Johannes Lochner part of history with two-man silver medal
No sooner had Johannes Lochner won silver in the two-man bobsleigh Beijing 2022, he started thinking about how to win gold.
Beijing 2022: Montell Douglas 'honoured' to becoming first British woman to compete at Summer and Winer Games
When Montell Douglas embarks on her first run in the two-women bobsleigh she will have achieved something no British woman has achieved before. Some 14 years after she lined up to run the 100m – coincidentally also in Beijing — Douglas is set to become the first woman to represent GB at both Summer and Winter Games. Ad/> Headline makers have been few and far between for Team GB thus far at these Games, so the 36-year-old’s place in the history books perhaps deserves to more of the spotlight.
Where can Team GB still win a medal at the Winter Olympics?
With just four days left of the Winter Olympics, Team GB are facing the very real possibility of leaving the Games empty-handed for the first time since Albertville in 1992.
Greg Rutherford says funding is a ‘major issue’ as scrutiny of Team GB’s dearth of Winter Olympics medals ramps up
London 2012 long jump champion Greg Rutherford believes Team GB have the potential to be a successful nation at the Winter Olympics, but not if the level of funding stays the same. Great Britain are yet to get on the medal table at Beijing 2022, after several chances came and went.