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Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, also known as FIBT from the French Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing. National competitions are often governed by bodies such as the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton, and the German Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton Federation.
Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled, down a frozen track while lying face down and head-first. The sport and the sled may have been named from the bony appearance of the sled.
Christopher Fogt is a United States Army Major, three time USA Olympian, and Olympic Silver medalist. He won a Silver Medal at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi as a member of the famed Team Night Train, in the four-man event. He also competed in the two-man Bobsled event in Sochi, earning 12th place with pilot, Cory Butner. He competed in the 2010 Vancouver Games as a member of USA-2, in the four-man event with pilot John Napier. After taking three years off after the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, he returned to the Sport in 2017 with long time friend and teammate Steve Langton earning a spot on his third USA Winter Olympic Team to compete in PyeongChang, 2018. He competed in PyeongChang with pilot Justin Olsen in the four-man event.
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The following are the criteria, rules, and final standings for qualification for the bobsleigh competitions at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
The following were the criteria, rules, and standings for qualification for the Skeleton competitions at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Alysia Rissling is a Canadian bobsledder. In 2015, she was the pilot for the first all-woman team in an official four-man bobsleigh race after the event became gender neutral. She competed in the two-woman bobsleigh event for Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics with Heather Moyse; the pair finished in 6th place.
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- 1 2 "Athlete Profile: Anthony Watson". PyeongChang2018.com. PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 2018-04-21.
- 1 2 3 4 Coppola, Anthony V. "Vineland native to compete in Winter Olympics", The Daily Journal (New Jersey) , February 5, 2018. Accessed February 21, 2018. "Anthony Watson was content knowing he'd miss the Philadelphia Eagles play in Super Bowl LII. After all, Watson, a Vineland native and 2008 Cumberland Christian graduate, had a decent excuse for missing the big game on Sunday.... Watson, 28, is set to represent Jamaica in the Winter Olympics as the country's first-ever skeleton competitor."
- 1 2 3 Team Archived 2019-09-26 at the Wayback Machine , Jamaica national bobsleigh team. Accessed February 21, 2018. "Anthony Watson was born on November 5, 1989 in Vineland, New Jersey. He participated in soccer, basketball and track and field while at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York.... After an injury slowed his times drastically, his dream of pursuing track and field seemed unreachable."
- ↑ Quota Allocation PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018 – Men's Skeleton - IBSF 14 January 2018, International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. Accessed February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Skeleton Men Official Results February 16, 2018, International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. Accessed February 21, 2018.