The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decided Tuesday that
Australia's women's bobsled team will be permitted to compete in
Vancouver, while Aoife Hoey and Claire Bergin of Ireland are expected to remain on
the Olympic team.
Germans swept the bobsled gold medals in Torino, but they'll have to hold off surging American and Canadian contingents in Vancouver.
NASCAR legend Geoff Bodine founded the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project in 1994 to build American-made bobsleds, and auto racing engineer Bob Cuneo is the brains behind each U.S. craft, including Steve Holcomb's world champion "Night Train."
In bobsled, there are good crashes and there are bad crashes, says U.S. driver and 2006 silver medalist Shauna Rohbock. A clean flip can be ridden out, but a bad crash is a different story. Just ask a brakeman.
Jamaica's bid to get its four-man bobsled into the 2010 Winter Olympics appears to have failed. "We've been in battles for many, many years," said Chris Stokes, a founding member of the Jamaican bobsled team more than 20 years ago.
Holcomb discusses winning a world title, naming a turn on the Olympic track and his top-secret sled.
The former collegiate heptathlete looks toward her Olympic debut as a driver after falling short of the Torino team as a brakeman.
There are three bobsled events on the Olympic program: the two- and four-man events and the women's event, which made its debut at the 2002 Salt Lake Games.
Friends and teammates call Swiss pilot Sabina Hafner "The Firecracker" because of her immense talent and fiery spirit.
Helen Upperton returns for her second Games as one of Canada's top medal prospects.
| Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 SUI | 9 | 10 | 11 | 30 |
 GER | 9 | 3 | 6 | 18 |
 USA | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
 GDR | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
 ITA | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Vancouver outlook 
Athletes to Watch: Women 
Holcomb's Night Train 
