Fountain To Try Bobsled

[aquille]

Evans pushed for Fenlator this week and they tied for the third-best start time across the two legs, pretty good considering that Fenlator is the weakest pusher of the three US drivers. Meyers/Eberling came away with the track-record start and finished second after two good rides.

Jones and Madison pushed for Meyers and Fenlator respectively in the team event, where each team gets one run on bobsled and skeleton of each gender. Meyers/Jones had the second-best start out of eight sleds while Fenlator/Madison were fourth.

CAN1 has won all for World Cup races so far--their rookie brakewoman Chelsea Valois was the 2011 CIS pentathlon champion and competed in the heptathlon at the Canadian trials earlier this year.

[guru]

Guru is full of it. She has a real chance to make that team. As does Tianna. Aja is a lock unless she bails out or gets hurt. Three sleds, three drivers, three breakmen.

Vets Azevedo and Eberling are almost guaranteed slots for 2014, which leaves one seat open(assuming the US qualifies three sleds).

You are half right. One vet is a lock for a slot, one is definitely not.

Azevedo and Eberling push to 2nd and 3rd place finishes at La Plagne World Cup. Jones/Fenlator 8th


http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Bobsled-and- ... d-Cup.aspx

[guru]

Aja Evans grabs first World Cup medal, teaming with driver Jazmine Fenlator for bronze at Igls, Austria. A razor-thin .01 out of silver, and .05 from gold.

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Bobsled-and- ... -Igls.aspx

[guru]

Azevedo, Eberling and Evans three brakemen named to World Championships team.

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Bobsled-and- ... oritz.aspx

[aquille]

Meyers/Eberling finished second after an exciting race that saw second through sixth place separated by just 0.17 seconds after four runs. Fenlator/Evans had good starts but only two good drives, finishing eighth. Greubel/Azevedo struggled to fifteenth, the worst finish for an American sled this year.

The season is not quite over as they go to Sochi for the Olympic test event in two weeks. Overall it's been very encouraging for the US.

[aquille]

Meyers/Evans finish second in the season's final event on the Olympic track in Sochi, putting down the fastest time on a second run where the track seemed to degrade and some of the other top competitors were well off the pace.