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      <title><![CDATA[US Olympic bobsledder to work on Japan's recovery]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1328492610" delta="12 hours ago"><![CDATA[2/5/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Just as he did when he was part of the U.S. bobsled team, Brock Kreitzburg is packing energy bars, meal supplements and a week's worth of clothes into a duffel bag for a journey to a foreign land.For this trip, he's also got some new accessories: an earthquake kit and a radioactivity detector.The 2006 Olympian and retired bobsled push athlete is leaving his Los Angeles home on Thursday for an ...]]></text>
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    <bigarticle id="17959">
      <title><![CDATA[Winter Olympics Hopeful]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1327783856" delta="1 week ago"><![CDATA[1/28/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Imagine driving a car one mile down a very steep, very narrow, very treacherous, very winding road. Now imagine that the road isn%u2019t made of asphalt but of ice%u2014and that you%u2019re not driving a car but riding a sled, one with no steering mechanism, no braking mechanism and no safety straps.Imagine if you did this while lying on your stomach, barreling head first downhill, and did it by choice and ...]]></text>
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    <article id="17738">
      <title><![CDATA[Whitehall bobsledder ends season on a high note]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1327281654" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/22/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Codie Bascue said he likes to finish his sports seasons strong.He certainly capped off his bobsled season on a high note at Lake Placid last weekend.Bascue, a 16-year-old junior at Whitehall, is a member of the U.S. bobsled development squad and one of the top-ranked juniors in the USA Bobsled & Skeleton Federation.In the final international competition of the season, the America's Cup series finale at Mt. VanHoevenberg, Bascue took ...]]></text>
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    <article id="17557">
      <title><![CDATA[Olympic spirit rallies with speedy trip around bobsled track]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1326921697" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/18/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Some kids get allowances, others are paid for their grades. Most of the time, I fall in neither category.However, thanks to the Ken Garff Keys to Success program, I recently got to do something that more than compensated for all the lost years of free cash -- winter bobsledding at the Utah Olympic Park.The auto company's program helps motivate and acknowledge high school students in their academic achievements. When I ...]]></text>
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    <article id="17297">
      <title><![CDATA[New display on offer at Warrington Museum]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1326653970" delta="3 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/15/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[EXPLORE the body beautiful at a new exhibition at Warrington Museum.The display, which runs at the museum until June 11, explores how different cultures have modified and decorated their bodies through history.From piercing to tattoing and foot binding to neck stretching, the exhibition looks at how some of these permanent changes are made and why.The exhibition is free and the museum is open Monday to Friday 10am until 4.30pm, Saturdays ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16820">
      <title><![CDATA[One trip down won't be enough on Calgary's luge run]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1321091618" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/12/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[WHAT'S THE DEAL? Hurtle down a tunnel of ice with minimal protection at about 60 kilometres an hour. WHERE'S IT AT? There's a saying in luge circles: Bobsled is like a semi, skeleton is a stock car, and luge is a Ferrari. That wasn't the word that came to mind when I saw the tiny frame I was supposed to put my not-tiny frame on with only a helmet and ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16656">
      <title><![CDATA[WCAP athlete wins World Cup gold on bobsled farewell tour]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1320490419" delta="13 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/5/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Team USA bobsled pilot Sgt. Shauna Rohbock is back in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program for what may be her farewell tour on the World Cup circuit.Rohbock teamed with brakeman Valerie Fleming to win the women's gold medal Jan. 14, at the World Cup event in Igls, Austria, where the U.S. duo prevailed by .09 seconds over Germany's Anja Scheiderheinze and Christin Senkel."If you ask anybody what track ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16496">
      <title><![CDATA[Germans take 1-2 finish at WCup 4-man bob race]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1320217487" delta="13 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/2/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Manuel Machata led a 1-2 German finish in the World Cup four-man bobsled race Sunday and Olympic champion Steven Holcomb of the United States took third.Machata's team of Richard Adjei, Andreas Bredau and Christian Poser posted the fastest second-run time for an aggregate 1 minute, 42.92 seconds.Thomas Florschuetz was in second-place 0.05 back and Holcomb trailed by another 0.05.Machata leads the four-man standings with 1,036 points followed by Holcomb with ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16336">
      <title><![CDATA[Alamo Rent A Car Jumps On Board With USA Bobsled/Skeleton Federation]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1319944205" delta="14 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/29/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation is getting a new partner for the European leg of the 2010-11 FIBT World Cup season. Alamo Rent A Car has signed up to support the USBSF and will be proudly displayed as the title sponsor of the four-man bobsled piloted by John Napier at the four remaining World Cup stops as well as the World Championships in late February.  "We are incredibly ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16173">
      <title><![CDATA[UPDATE: Olympic gold medalist joins Nat'l Guard]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1319618598" delta="14 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/26/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[In 2010, Justin Olsen's bobsled team took first place at the Winter Olympics - an athletes dream come true."You just get chills," Olsen says. "Everything I've done to get there was worth it."Thursday, standing before a smaller crowd, Olsen lived out another one of his dreams, joining the Army National Guard."When you take the athleticism away then who are you? I can be defined by this now," Olsen says. "This ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16010">
      <title><![CDATA[Olympic bobsledder Olsen joins National Guard]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1319250888" delta="15 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/21/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Olympic gold medalist Justin Olsen thought about becoming a soldier before becoming a bobsledder. He's now found a way to do both.Olsen is enlisting in the New York Army National Guard as a human resource specialist, becoming the latest in a long line of American sliding athletes who also have military careers.His National Guard commitment is not expected to disrupt his bobsled schedule, since he won't start basic training until ...]]></text>
    </article>
    <article id="15849">
      <title><![CDATA[Prince Albert II coming to Southwest Florida to support Art of the Olympians]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1318831724" delta="16 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/17/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Southwest Florida welcomes royalty, on March 5, with the arrival of Prince Albert II of Monaco. The prince will be on hand to support the grand opening celebration of the Art of the Olympians Museum and Galleries at the Al Oerter Center for Excellence'.Prince Albert II is a five-time Olympian in the bobsledding and a member of the International Olympic Committee. Prince Albert's mother was Princess Grace, the 1954 Academy ...]]></text>
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