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      <title><![CDATA[Olympic Bobsledder's Massage]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1280854497" delta="4 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/3/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[For those of you who watched the Olympic Bobsled events during the Winter Games, you saw the fastest track in the world. It made for incredibly exciting competition. I had lots of interest in the events because one of my clients was there and competed, a 28-year-old former Cornell University football player named Jamie Moriarty. Jamie just happens to live in Winnetka, Illinois, very close to my clinic in the ...]]></text>
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    <bigarticle id="13269">
      <title><![CDATA[Olympic bobsled track added to National Register of Historic Places]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1280854078" delta="4 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/3/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[LAKE PLACID - There are more than 80,000 properties on the National Register of Historic Places, but only one bobsled run. Built in 1930 and still in use, although no longer for international competitions, the 1932 and 1980 Olympic bobsled track on Mount Van Hoevenberg was added to the register Monday afternoon. This was at a ceremony attended by numerous state and local officials, including Gov. David Paterson, who said ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12612">
      <title><![CDATA[bobsled champ holcomb to light state games cauldron]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1278620550" delta="8 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Steve Holcomb, who piloted the 'Night Train' to the first U.S. Olympic gold medal in the four-man bobsled in 62 years, in Vancouver, has been selected as the official torch lighter for the 2010 Rocky Mountain State Games. The Colorado Springs resident, who paved the way for his gold medal run by training at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, will finish the evening at the opening ceremony July 30 at ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12611">
      <title><![CDATA[Pierre Lueders retires from competition]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1278620345" delta="8 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Pierre Lueders was interviewed for the job of Canadian bobsleigh team head coach, but he's happier to fill a role that's more his specialty. The country's most decorated pilot aims to coach the next generation of drivers to more success than he had during his 20-year career. Lueders announced both his retirement from competition and his new job as pilot coach for Canada's World Cup and Europa Cup teams Thursday. ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12402">
      <title><![CDATA[Two U.S. bobsled Olympians called to war]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1276728620" delta="11 weeks ago"><![CDATA[6/16/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Olympic bobsled teammates John Napier and Chris Fogt are changing uniforms for the next few months. The U.S. Army has summoned them to war. The Vermont National Guard members - and USA-2 sledmates during bobsled season - have received word from Army officials that they are needed overseas, a callup that neither was sure would ever happen.Napier is being sent to Afghanistan with the 86th Infantry Mountain Combat Brigade out ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11859">
      <title><![CDATA[Coaches resign from US national bobsled teams, take same jobs with Swiss team]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1273088810" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/5/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Sepp and Francois Plozza have resigned as men's and women's coaches for the U.S. national bobsled team to take the same roles in Switzerland. It's a move that makes sense for the Plozzas, who live not far from the Swiss team's headquarters in St. Moritz. U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation CEO Darrin Steele said the Plozzas 'did a great job for us over the last few ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11858">
      <title><![CDATA[Olympic gold medal winner jams]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1273088628" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/5/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[What is one way to make sure your life goals are reached? Apparently winning an Olympic gold medal helps. OK, maybe that's not the easiest route to take, but it sure seems to be working for Curt Tomasevicz. The Shelby native and 2010 Winter Olympics gold medalist in the four-man bobsled checked another life goal off his list on Monday night when he sat in with Pearl Jam for the ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11412">
      <title><![CDATA[Lyndon Rush signs on for Sochi]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1271119269" delta="20 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/12/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Lyndon Rush has committed to the Canadian bobsleigh program for the Sochi 2014 games. Rush, who won a bronze medal in the four-man race at the 2010 Vancouver Games, was one of the Olympians honoured before Monday night's Toronto Blue Jays home opener, as gold medal freestyle skier Alex Bilodeau threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Rogers Centre. Rush was part of a group of 13 that included ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10770">
      <title><![CDATA[PPG Automotive Refinishing Helps U Bobsled team Win Gold]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1268758030" delta="24 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/16/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[PPG Industries' (NYSE:PPG) automotive refinish business is pleased to congratulate the U.S. Olympic four-man bobsled team on winning the gold medal during the Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The victory, achieved in the PPG-painted Bo-Dyn Night Train bobsled, was the first four-man bobsled Olympic gold medal the United States has won since the 1948 games.  The U.S. team - led by driver Steve Holcomb, with pushers Justin Olsen ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10228">
      <title><![CDATA[Former Portland State volleyball player Bree Schaaf pursues medal in U.S. bobsled]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266943103" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[WHISTLER, B.C. - Bree Schaaf's trip to Vancouver, B.C., began eight years ago in front of her parents' television in Bremerton, Wash., with a brother's inspiration. It culminates Tuesday, in a sport in which she's a relative rookie, in a race in which she'll face the best in the world. Schaaf will drive the two-woman USA III sled in Day One of the two-day bobsled competition at the Winter Games. ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10227">
      <title><![CDATA[Bobsled team using Central Texan's footage to race better]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266943009" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[About a year ago, Scott McLean was on the side of a mountain in Utah, sitting in a bobsled and rather nervously awaiting the arrival of the driver who would take him for his first bobsled run. The 80 mph ride, piloted by 2002 Olympic bronze medalist and current U.S. coach Brian Shimer, was to be a partial reward for work that McLean, an associate professor of kinesiology at Southwestern ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10226">
      <title><![CDATA[Lange leads German 1-2]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Bobsled Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266942900" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Germany's Andre Lange won a record fourth Olympic gold medal in bobsleigh when he combined with Kevin Kuske to win the two-man event.  The duo, who led at the halfway stage, managed a combined time of three minutes 26.65 seconds for their four runs at the Whistler Sliding Centre.They finished 0.22 seconds clear of compatriots Thomas Florschuetz and Richard Adjei in Germany II, with Alexsandr Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda ...]]></text>
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