Hear it from the Pros
Vancouver2010.com caught up with some of the top athletes from every sport of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Hear them here! >>>
VANOC continues operational testing with bobsleigh, skeleton and luge sport events at The Whistler Sliding Centre Spectator interest expected to be high as athletes get to know new technical track
WHISTLER, BC– Interest will be high this week as a brand new sport is introduced to the sea to sky region when the best bobsleigh and skeleton athletes in the world will take to the track for the first of two World Cups to be held at The Whistler Sliding Centre. >>>
Testing successfully complete at bobsleigh and skeleton sport event. Sold-out crowd cheers on sliding athletes from around the world
WHISTLER, BC – The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) successfully completed its operational testing today at the bobsleigh and skeleton sport events at The Whistler Sliding Centre, which ran from February 5 to 7. >>>
Canadian bobsleigh hero takes first test runs at The Whistler Sliding Centre
Vancouver, BC – Pierre Lueders, four-time Olympian and the most decorated slider in Canadian history, and brakeman Justin Kripps participated in the christening of The Whistler Sliding Centre track on the afternoon of December 19, 2007, making some of the first runs at the new venue. >>>
Training at The Whistler Sliding Centre
At the close of this year's sliding season, 2,217 test and training runs were taken on the new Whistler Sliding Centre track. Taking the majority of these first runs was the Canadian bobsleigh, luge and skeleton teams, who really took advantage of the first Canadian Team Training Camps at The Whistler Sliding Centre. >>>
In Their Words: Lascelles Brown
Lascelles Brown of Clarendon, Jamaica has been a competitive bobsledder since 1999. As a member of the Jamaican bobsleigh team, Brown became the first Jamaican-born athlete to win an Olympic Winter Games medal. At the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games, the Jamaican duo of Brown and breakman Winston Watt set the track push record. >>>
