{"id":8811,"date":"2018-01-16T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2018-01-14T19:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T23:23:48","slug":"winter-2018-olympics-bobsledding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2018\/01\/16\/winter-2018-olympics-bobsledding\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2018 Olympics: Bobsledding"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winter Olympics are getting closer and people are beginning to pay more attention to the sports that will be featured in them. \u00a0Most of these winter sports are only highly publicized every four years during the Olympics. \u00a0An example of this is the sport of bobsledding. \u00a0Bobsledding is a sport that most people have heard of and know the general concept of what it is without knowing many details about the athletes or logistics and scoring of the sport. \u00a0The sport gets minimal media attention, even throughout the Olympics because it is overshadowed by figure skating and snowboarding.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"There has only been one movie made about bobsledding, \u201cCool Runnings\u201d. \u00a0It is about the first Jamaican bobsled team and how they were formed, practiced, and eventually made it to the Olympics. \u00a0The movie shows the basics equipment, requirements, and skills needed to compete in the sport. \u00a0It also states the basic rules and possible qualifying times to make it into the Olympics around 1993. \u00a0It is more of a fun team building and friendship movie than an informative bobsled movie but it did help to expose more people to the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n

In all bobsleigh events there is one driver and at least one other person in the sled to help with the momentum of the sled as it travels through the course. \u00a0The driver has to turn the corners and lean the sled at the perfect angle for the sled to not lose momentum during the race, and the other members in the sled have to lean along with it to make the sled steady. \u00a0The driver of the team has to memorize each course and the angles of every turn to be prepared before he\/she even gets to the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are three different bobsleigh events: four man, two man, and two women. \u00a0The four men race can be man and\/or women. \u00a0The four man bobsleigh event has been a part of the Winter Olympics since the first one took place in 1924. \u00a0The two man bobsleigh was added in 1932 at the third Winter Olympics, and the two women bobsleigh was added in 2002 at the nineteenth Winter Olympic Games.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the 2018 Games the center that the race takes place is also the venue of the luge and skeleton races. \u00a0All three sports use the same track with the course length being adjusted per sport. \u00a0All of the bobsleigh events use a course length of 1,376.38m, or 0.86 miles. \u00a0The average slope of the track is 9.48%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bobsledding is only one of the many sports that are only in the spotlight during the Winter Olympics. \u00a0Even during the Olympics they are still overlooked and out shined\u00a0by other sports like snowboarding. \u00a0But throughout the years the viewership has risen thanks to the movie \u201cCool Runnings\u201d, and with time it will hopefully become more popular.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Winter Olympics are getting closer and people are beginning to pay more attention to the sports that will be featured in them. \u00a0Most of these winter sports are only highly publicized every four years during the Olympics. \u00a0An example of this is the sport of bobsledding. \u00a0Bobsledding is a sport that most people have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":8812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1074,776,1077,1078,321,198,1071,1072,1079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}