Bobsleigh

New Zealand skeleton racer Katharine Eustace has broken into the top 20 in the International Bobsled Federation (FIBT) women's world rankings following a World Cup race in Lake Placid, United States, on Saturday.

Serious injuries threatened to end Tom Davie's sporting ambitions but instead they changed his approach to life.

Pumped up by the inclusion of three former track sprinters and a rugby player, the New Zealand bobsleigh team have the potential for a top 10 finish at next month's world championships in the United States.

The New Zealand bobsleigh campaign is gathering momentum with an announcement due next week on the final make-up of the crew.

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I see quite a good chance to get the guys competitive for the GamesTHE equipment might be a bit rudimentary, and the athletes mostly novices, but the New Zealand bobsleigh team is getting top coaching.

Leading coach Gerd Grimme will live in Dunedin for three months to help guide the New Zealand bobsleigh squad to the 2010 Winter Olympics.

They might look like nine oversized boys pushing a trolley at the moment, but the prospective members of the New Zealand bobsleigh team intend to be flying in 2010.

The New Zealand bobsleigh team will be looking for a podium finish in the Winter Olympics at Vancouver in 2010, project co-ordinator and three-times Olympian Dr Angus Ross says.

Olympic sprinter Chris Donaldson might be in the twilight of his running career, but the pin-up boy of New Zealand athletics hopes a switch to bobsledding will yield a Winter Olympics medal.