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Please check out the article that is posted on the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation web-site http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Bobsled-Skeleton-Federation/Athletes/Athlete-Blogs/Jesse-Beckom
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Monday, June 17, 2013
My article on the USBSF Web-site
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Second Summer Update 2013
During the week I lift Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and run Tuesday (Topless Tuesday), Thursday (Throw-up Thursday) and Saturday (Suck It UP Saturday) having Friday and Sunday off. I also work as a campus tour guide Monday-Saturday. Overall training is going great out here in Colorado Springs; we have a solid group of Bobsled and Skeleton athlete’s out here training. The sprints I do range in distance from 20-80 meters in length using bungee cords or parachutes for resistive and assistive sprints; along. With prints from 15-80 meters without any apparatuses. I do plyometric jumps onto boxes, over boxes, off boxes, over hurdles and up stadium stairs. As you can imagine all these of these sprints, lifts and exercises I do takes a toll on your body, so I take a down week every four weeks or so. Taking a down week allows my body to recover from the physical strains associated with several straight weeks of hard lifting and sprinting. During a down week of lifting I reduce my normal lifts anywhere from 40%-50%. Although the amount of weight I’m using reduces my effort does not. During my down week the intensity and volume of my sprint workout remains the same! Please copy and paste the following links in you web-browser to view video clips of my training. Pictures of my training will be posted on my web-site by Friday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtm6UAuI3zQ ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDUgXu9goTk,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOKal2BR3A,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zHFb6DNos,
Up Next!
As of this week I am seven weeks away from the USA Bobsled 2013 Push Championships that will be held in Calgary, Canada!!! This is the event that ranks me and all of the other bobsled brakeman as we head into the season. Push Championships helps to pair me with one of the top drivers on World Cup and is the first major event of the year that will propel me closer to my goal of becoming a 2014 Olympian. Prior to Push Championships and in addition to my current training regimen I’m planning on taking several self-funded trips, to Lake Placid, Ny, Park City, UT, and Calgary, Canada to train on their push tracks before Push Champs. After Push Champs I will head to Lake Placid to continue my push training with the team mates I will race with for National Team Trials. Team trials will be held in Lake Placid and Park City, Utah which are both self-funded trips!!! After team trials in October we will begin World Cup racing. Throughout the year our results on World Cup will determine who is named to the Olympic Team in January 2014!!
June 12th-23rd Lake Placid, NY Push Training
June 24th-June 27th Park City, UT Push Training
July 21st-27th Calgary, Canada Push Training
July 28th-AUG 4th Calgary, Canada Combine Testing and Push Championships
October (TBA) National Team Trials
November 18th World Cup Races Begin in Lake Placid
January 2014 Bobsled Olympic Team Named
It’s Olympic year and I’m ready to get this season going! It’s going to be a great season for me and #Team_USA_Bobsled_Super_Force!!!
Stories
Warrior Games
In May the OTC hosted the opening ceremonies for the Annual Warrior Games! The Warrior Games are for battle injured service members (male and female) who compete in Paralympic sporting events http://www.teamusa.org/warriorgames/ . These service members come from the Air Force, Army, Marines Navy/Coast Guard, and Special Ops; they compete against each other and their counterparts from Great Britain. The events are held here on the Olympic Training Center and the United States Air Force Academy. I was able to attend some of the Paralympic Basketball and Volleyball games here on campus.
Being a tour guide on campus allowed me to give a VIP tour to some of the main donors of the Warrior Games. This VIP group of sponsors included private families, BP Executives, and Deloitte executives. It was a great time showing these Ladies and Gentlemen around the OTC. After the tour Julia who works for BP as the Director of Government and Public Affairs in the Rockies invited me out to the BP Hospitality Event they were having for the soldiers the following day! During the event I was able to speak more in depth with some of the athletes/soldiers who had competed in the Warrior Games along with several employees from BP.
The next day after the BP event I had the pleasure of being the athlete speaker at the Volunteer Awards Luncheon Briefing for 50 plus USOC volunteers and select USOC and NGB staff. The volunteers at the luncheon accounted for more than 8,750 volunteer hours. I thanked the volunteers for their tireless dedication to the USOC and its athletes. I sharef with them my story on how I became a bobsled athlete and my goal of becoming an Olympian at the 2014 Winter Olympics in
Sochi.
A few days later while I was working at the visitor center my friend Alana Nichols, 3 time Paralympian and multiple Gold-Medalist stopped by with her friend and his family. Her friend was an eight year old boy named Jason who is suffering from cancer. This little guy was full on energy and life, just bouncing off the wall. Funny thing was that after I was introduced to him his parents were trying to tell him that I did bobsled but after he shook my hand, the little guy was over it, and was running to go sit in the mock bobsled we have in the front of the visitor center. He was like met that guy already, blah blah he is an athlete that’s cool now it’s time to play on something! Lol
eBay Executives Return
If you recall about a month or so I informed you all about the great group of eBay executives who I and some of the other athletes got a chance to meet. Those initials meetings went so well that now I and other athletes are in talks with eBay about internship opportunities with the potential of leading to permanent employment. Since its Olympic year I’m looking to take advantage of this opportunity after the Games. So please pray that it all works out.
United Way commercial
Training here at the OTC in Colorado Springs various opportunities occasionally come about. This particularly week in June I and my other team mates got the chance to be in a United Way commercial that will be shown on flights as you board the plane. My team mate Curt and another Winter Olympian were the stars of the piece while I and the other bobsled were more Atmospheric Specialist or background noise! Lol It was a fun experience but I was wishing that I was a well-known celebrity so I could ask for top dollar. Hopefully in the near future when you’re sitting down for you flight you will see my silhouette in the background on the screen in front of you.
Sponsorship
As I continue working and traning to achieve my goal in Sochi I am still in need of financial sponsors. If everyone who follows my updates donates at least $50 of sponsorship money I would have enough revenue that will ensure that I’m able to afford needed trips to Park City, Lake Placid, and Calgary for training and National Team Trials! To provide me with sponsorship money please follow this link http://www.jessebeckom3.com/5.html or select the PayPal donate buttons on my web-page and blog page.
God Bless,
Jesse
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
My interview with ATLXTV.com
Hello everyone please follow the links below to the interviews I did with The ATLX Channels very own Michelle Magnan!! It's a two part interview so please click on both links!
http://atlxtv.com/2013/04/18/olympic-bobsledder-jesse-beckom-making-the-jump/
Thank you and God Bless
Jesse
Thank you and God Bless
Jesse
Monday, April 29, 2013
First Summer Update of 2013
Greetings and Salutations BECKOM NATION, and a warm welcome to all of my new followers! To my new readers a cautionary note; my blog is written with a general conversation flow and not as to receive an A in an English Composition course. Oh and one more thing do tend to create new words that are easily found in the Becktionary! lol
I am your kind, humble, and gracious host THEE Jesse Beckom III. Thank you for tuning into another installment of my Bobsled life. WYLD STALLYNS Rule! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/
Training
I’m back out in Colorado Springs, Co. and the training is going great! Being that our annual Push Championships has been moved up from October to August, my timeline for training has been moved up as well. That being the case I’m currently entering my sixth week of intensive training here at the Olympic Training Center. For those of you who are new to my blog and are wondering as a bobsled athlete how and what I do to train for bobsled in the summer…I will tell you. I WORKOUT!! WIGGLE! WIGGLE! WIGGLE! Look at my body! I WORKOUT! Its ok, I know some of you are laughing!
Toward the end of the season I had a great talk with one of my bobsled coaches about off-season training and how to improve my performance. I have integrated those concepts into my training and, although it is early in the off-season, I do see the difference in my pushing. I am confident that with the information I received from my bobsled coach, along with the daily guidance of my strength and conditioning coach, I will be physically capable of achieving all my goals this season! Being that it is Olympic Year I won’t talk much about the changes that are being made because I know that someone I compete with might read my blog and be saying, "What new thing can Jesse be doing to get better that I don’t know about? " The answer is, you will see! I will build a better Jesse Beckom III the likes the World has ever seen! Boom! Yeah…that did just happen!
If you can’t tell, I extremely excited for the changes I’m making and I can’t wait to get after it this year! Please follow this link to view this year’s full Bobsled schedule http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Bobsled-and-Skeleton-Federation/Features/2013/April/03/Olympic-season-calendar.aspx
Although I have been unable to find a summer position in city planning I have started working at the Olympic Training Center as a tour guide to help me try and offset some of my training expenses. God willing everything will work out for me to acquire the resources that I need to make essential training trips out to Park City, UT; Lake Placid, NY; and Calgary, Canada this off-season. In order to streamline donations, I’ve added a PayPal donation button to my web-site and blog page, making it easier for potential sponsors to donate. I am definitely in need of sponsors so please feel free to direct those person(s) and or corporation(s) to this sponsorship link http://www.jessebeckom3.com/5.html on my web page.
Quick Story
Oh! Since I have been working as a tour guide I have some really great funny stories to share with you all later. However, I do have one interesting/fun story to tell now. On occasion, the USOC has different business groups that come in for team building activities which include meeting athletes on campus and or having dinner with them as well. Two weeks ago Devin Wenig President of eBay marketplaces and his Executive Staff including Mark Carges CTO and SVP; Steve Boehm SVP; Sarah Brubacher Director of Top Seller Development; Chris Tsakalakis President of Stubhub; Wendy Jones VP and others from eBay came out to the training center for their team event. I and a few other athletes went out to dinner with this group; while at dinner, we got to chat with a number of these executives who took a sincere interest in what we were working to accomplish. This feeling of sincerity resonated with me along with the other athletes that were there. We all had done these types of events before in the past, but this time it felt different, in a great way! The next day after the dinner I and the other athletes were paired with an eBay executive. For about an hour and half we got to pick the minds of these elite businessmen and women! Needless to say I was excited. It’s not often one gets the opportunity to talk with leaders in the business world who are on top of their game. In my mind it’s a match main in heave; we specialize in becoming the best in the world in our sport and they specialize in becoming the best in the world in their industry. If these are not some of the people you would jump at a chance to speak with, then I’m not sure who else qualifies!
I had a great one-on-one conversation with Steve Boehm about life and business. Without going into detail on exactly what was discussed, Steve provided me with some solid advice on overcoming hurdles in business, sports and life in general. It was a growing experience for me and I thank God for putting me in the position to have it. In addition, it was comforting that each executive we spoke with valued our sacrifice as athletes and expressed how the dedication, determination, and leadership qualities we possess is valued in the business world. In addition, this meeting was truly special because it effectively dispelled any stereotypes that we, as athletes, may have held about persons helping to lead major corporations and vice versa.
Well, that’s all I have for this installment have a great day and thanks again for reading my blog.
God Bless,
Jesse
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
ALL OUT!! The 2014 Olympics are Less Than a Year Away!!
Greetings to all you Jess-A-Maniacs out there!!! (My Hulk Hogan reference). I’m happy to hear that you all continue to enjoy my "Beckploits"
I just want to thank every one of you. Without all your support, I would not have been able to achieve any of my goals over the past years. In this letter, I am asking for your advice and help so that I can complete the race and become an Olympian.
Just as we are two weeks into the off-season we are also two weeks into the Olympic Year! I’m looking forward to a "Jesstactular" (ok, that's it.) summer of training. I will be getting my game up this summer to prepare for what will be a trying but successful season that, God willing, will see me become an Olympian in 2014!
Making the 2014 Olympic Team will be a hard fought battle since we have so many great athletes on our team who will all be battling for spots. However it’s a task that I am mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually prepared for!
Unfortunately I currently do not have any financial sponsors which I need in order to be able to compete this season (Sponsorship is tax deductible)! That being said please let me know if you have any ideas on ways that I could raise money for my season, or if you know of any persons/companies who may be willing to sponsor me. If you know of any potential sponsors please direct them to the sponsorship section on my web-page http://www.jessebeckom3.com/5.html or have them contact me directly.
I need raise $9k in sponsorships for the season. The funds will go directly towards all my Bobsled expenses including hotel stays, flights, rental cars, ice house push track fees, training gear and etc. If you like, you are more than welcome to donate miles to either my United or Delta mileage accounts; please call/e-mail me for my account details.
Other teams around the world have the luxury of being government funded however this is not the case for me as I compete for a spot on Team USA. Therefore my intention, once again, is to work as I train for the upcoming season.
Because this is Olympic year, there is a delicate balance between working, training, and recovery that I must maintain in order to perform my best in competitions. This year also requires me to travel more in the off-season; making trips to the push tracks in Calgary, Canada; Park City, UT; and Lake Placid, NY.
I know that the majority of companies might find it hard to really understand that one of their new employees was travelling so much. So I am looking for those special sponsors who see the goal as clearly as I do, who understand all that is involved, and who are willing to help me do whatever it takes to achieve it!
Thank you all for continuing to follow me and for all the prayers!!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Last Three Races of the season!!
Last Three Races of the Season: Igls, Austria; St.
Moritz, Switzerland and Sochi, Russia
Hmmmm…..how
do I begin this? I would like to thank God for allowing me to stay healthy
another season and that there have been no serious injuries on World Cup.
However, one of my really great friends Megan did separate her shoulder in a
crash so please pray that she continues to heal fast.
I
initially planned for this e-mail be a relatively short update with more facts
than long stories……Yeah I failed at that, so towards the end I got a bit wordy,
but in a good way.
Now
to the meat of the matter….with two new drivers, this World Cup year has been a
learning experiencing that is preparing us for next year to be great! We have
the push athletes and the drivers to be in the medal hunt all next season, but
this season there were a few bumps in the road. Unfortunately these bumps
continued for the team in various areas during the last couple of World Cup
Races including World Championships. However as an entire team,
Team_USA_Bobsled_&_Skeleton_Superforce did an excellent job at World Champs
and in the Sochi, Russia World Cup/Test.
Igls, Austria WC
The
race in Igls, Austria began with the team event. In the team event each country
has either one or two teams depending. The teams are composed of one sled from
each discipline: i.e one men’s skeleton, one women’s skeleton, women’s bobsled
and men’s 2-man bobsled. Each discipline takes one trip down the hill, the
country with the fastest combined final time wins. For this team event we only
fielded one team when normally we have two teams that participate. Our USA 1
team was Matt Antoine (Skeleton), Elana Meyers & Lolo Jones (Women’s
Bobsled) Katie Uhlaender (women’s Skeleton) and Steven Holcomb & Nicholas
Taylor who took Bronze in the event.
In the 2-Man Competition Two of the three sleds
finished in the Top 10
USA
3 Cory Butner/Andreas Drbal finished fifth
USA
2 Nick Cunningham/Dallas Robinson finished 9th
USA
1 Steve Holcomb/Curt Tomasevicz finished 14th
Women’s Skeleton
USA
1 Noelle Pikus-Pace took Silver
USA
2 Katie Uhlaender finished 10th
Women’s’ Bobsled All the women finished in the Top
10
USA
3 Jazmine Fenlator/Aja Evans took Bronze position
USA
1 Elana Meyers/Katie Eberling finished 5th
USA
2 Jamie Greubel/Emily Azevedo finished 9th
Men’s Skeleton
USA
1 John Daly finished 16th
USA
2 Matt Antoine finished 17th
USA
3 Kyle Tress finished 19th
4-man Competition all three sleds were un-traditionally
out of the top 15
USA
1 Holcomb/Tomasevicz/Langton/Fogt finished 17th,
USA
2 Cunningham/Olsen/Drbal/Robinson finished 20, and the
USA
3 Butner/Beckom/Clark/Quinn finished 23rd
I
know as a group the men could have performed better and we have in the past,
but unfortunately on this day the results were not there. Going into the race
we all had cold weather runners on our sleds. Sadly for us, on the day of the
4-man race the temperature rose higher than it had been all week, and higher
than the forecast had predicted, spelling disaster for team USA! In the sport
of Bobsled, success comes from an equal mix of equipment, push, and drive. When
any one of those factors is severely off, the others can’t always make up for
it. The race was over and now the focus was solely on St. Moritz and the 2013
World Championships.
St. Moritz 2013
World Championships
St.
Moritz is the where the Sport of Bobsled was invented. It is home to the last
remaining natural track in the world. The track is created from the fallen snow
in the area which is piled up, compacted and shaped into a Bobsled Track. Once
the track is completed it is about 1,722 meters long and runs through the town
of Celerina and St. Moritz! Being that this is the birthplace of bobsled the
atmosphere was charged for the upcoming race events. The stands were packed,
the concession stands were chock full of people, and the band was playing full
blast for two solid weekends of racing! What? What’s that…why two weekends of
racing you ask? Why of course I will tell you…cause I’m awesome and have a
plethora of useful information! Lol
The
bobsled World Championships are best explained as our Olympic event in
non-Olympic Years. That being said, it just like the Olympics with the same
events. Men’s and Women’s Skeleton, Men’s and Women’s 2-Man Bobsled, and the
4-Man Bobsled each have four heats of racing held over two days.
The
order of racing in the first and third heats is based on the teams overall
World Cup ranking, the second heat is in reverse order (twenty to one,
twenty-first to last). A fourth heat of racing is only guaranteed for those
sleds in the top twenty; those twenty-first through the end keep their rank
after the third and do not race in the final heat.
World
Championships is usually a pretty stressful time for everyone since your team
and individual ranking, and federation funding is all based on our results.
There is also a lot of stress because the teams are not named until the last
minute. On the men’s side the 2-man teams for Worlds were set. The coaches
named the 4-Man Crews for USA-1, USA-2, and USA-3. However there ended up being
a race-off on USA-3 where I was on the winning race-off crew giving me the
green light to race. In addition to the race-off going on with the push crews
the coaching staff also decided to replace our driver, Cory Butner, with
eighteen year old junior driver Codie Basque. The decision was made since Codie
ended up out-ranking Cory after Codie accumulated more points racing on the
America’s Cup Circuit than Cory had earned in World Cup races. It was Cody
debut on World Cup and one of its greatest stages. Unfortunately as a crew we
did not get a second run and finished in 30th place, it was far from my best
finish at Worlds but it was a good experience for Codie in his young career.
Overall Team
USA_Bobsled_&_Skeleton_Team_Super_Force had a pretty good World
Championships performance!
Women’s Bobsled
Race
USA
1 Elana Meyers/Katie Eberling took Silver;
USA
2 Jaszmine Fenlator/Aja Evans finished 8th;
USA
3 Jamie Greuble/Emily Azvedo finished 15th.
Women’s Skeleton
USA
1 Noelle Pikus-Pace took Silver
USA
2 Katie Uhlaender finished 7th.
Men’s Skeleton
USA
1 John Daly finished 5th
USA
2 Matt Antoine finished 12th
Men’s 2-Man
USA
1 Steve Holcomb/Steve Langton finished 4th
USA
2 Cory Butner/Chris Fogt finished 9th
USA
3Nick Cunningham/Dallas Robinson finished 13th.
Men’s 4-Man
USA
1 Holcomb/Olsen/Tomasevicz/Langton finished in Bronze
USA
2 Cunningham/Clark/Drbal/Fogt finished 19th
USA
3 Basque/Beckom/Quinn/Taylor finished 30th
In
Men’s Bobsled outside of USA 1’s finishes the Worlds were not pretty at all, far from what I
could have ever imagined that they would be. God willing, results like that
will never happen again. I do know this: next season’ results will be a lot
better! However, I also know that the road to one’s goal is not always as
smooth as we would like, but, unfortunately, that’s the way it goes. After a
night out thoroughly licking my wounds and Praying to God for guidance and
understanding for the way things occurred it was off to Sochi, Russia for two
weeks and the final World Cup of the season.
Sochi, Russia Last
World Cup/Test Event
The
next and last stop on the World Cup Circuit was Sochi, Russia future site of
the 2014 Olympic Winter Games!! Sochi is a relatively small town with a
population just over 340k right off the Black Sea and about 260 miles away from
The Republic of Georgia. As opposed to some of the colder locations on tour the
winter in Sochi is usually relatively warmer with average temps around 50
degrees Fahrenheit in the day and 38 degrees Fahrenheit in the evenings.
Another fun fact is that they are virtually rebuilding the entire area for the
games and have already spent $51 Billion dollars in doing so! This link below
has more information on the subject.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-russia-sochi-idUSBRE91K04M20130221
While
in Sochi we stayed at the Gala Plaza Hotel which was about a ten minute drive
from the track.The hotel rooms were a good size for being overseas; they also
had pretty good food. However, I’m still not sure if things there were truly
nice and the food was really that good or if it just exceeded my expectations.
(I expected the worse when heading over there, lol.) Regardless I do know that
the food at our hotel was better than at those hotels all the other countries
were staying in! The downside was that the other hotels had a better internet
connection then we did. It was definitely a consensus among our team that
better food beats better internet every time! Speaking of food the staff at our
hotel could not believe how much food we consumed each meal! Apparently they
told our team manager that they were glad we liked the food but why do we have
to eat so much all the time!? lol
Behind
our hotel there was construction happening 24/7 on the main train station
coming into the area. The day that President Vladmir Putin came to inspect the
facilities was actually the only day the workers stopped working. The security
before his visit was extremely impressive!
The
area where we stored our bobsleds was a bit different than other places. We
usually store our sled within the garage of the hotel we stay at. However that
was not possible in Sochi so the track provided P.O.D’s (my planning people in
Winston-Salem love these! Lol). The space inside the P.O.D’s were just enough
to get a both sleds inside them. But that was not the fun part. The fun part
was unloading the sleds from the travel crates; but especially the 4-man sleds
that were stacked on top of the 2-man crates! Soooooooooo much fun! NOT! (I
told you it’s coming back!)
When
it came down to the competition the Women of
Team_USA_Bobsled_&_Skeleton_Super_Force stole the show. As for the men, we
are still figuring some things out that will be ready for the Games! Lol.
Seriously
though we will be! The coaches decided to give me the week off so I did not
race. Here are the results.
Women’s Skeleton
USA
1 Noelle Pikus-Pace took Gold!
USA
2 Katie Uhlaender took Silver!
Women’s Bobsled
USA
1 Elana Meyers/Aja Evans took Silver! and set the start record at 5.16 (They
out pushed some of the guys in 2-man!)
USA
3 Jamie Grueble/Katie Eberling finished 9th
USA
2 Jazmine Fenlator/Lolo Jones finished 13th
2-Man
USA
3 Cory Butner/Johnny Quinn finished 9th
USA
1 Steve Holcomb/Steve Langton finished 12th
USA
2 Nick Cunningham/Dallas Robinson finished 14th
4-Man
USA
1 Holcomb/Olsen/Tomasevicz/Langton finished 10
USA
2 Cunningham/Clark/Drbal/Fogt finished 12th
USA
3 Butner/Robinson/C.Langton/Quinn finished 24
Men’s Skeleton
USA
1 John Daly finished 4th
USA
2 Matt Antoine finished 11th
USA
3 Kyle Tress finished 13th
At
the completion of the races it was time to pack up and begin the journey back
to the good ole US of A! Before we actually left Russia there was the season
ending dinner and social networking function to be had! Lol The function went
off without a hitch, with cold milk, fresh cookies, and PowerAde served to
everyone! We ate, we danced, and we frolicked. A good time was had by all!
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! Lol
Once
again I would like to thank each one of you for continually following me on this
journey; your support means far more than you know!! Now it’s time for the
off-season and a couple weeks of down time before I resume regular training.
By
the way since I’m back in the states I have been able to upload all my pictures
from tour so please have a look. The first six albums on my Media page are the most recent one. They began with the City Name where the race was held and end in “2012-2013". Thank you for your patient while I added my photos.
God
Bless,
Jesse
B.
Twitter:@jessbeck3
Friday, February 1, 2013
World Championships Schedule
Hey everyone please tune in to my 4-Man World Championship Race, all the information you need is below! Enjoy and God Bless!
World Championship racing resumes tomorrow in St. Moritz
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (Jan. 30, 2013)-The U.S. team collected two medals to celebrate the first weekend of 2013 World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Women's bobsledders Elana Meyers and Katie Eberling set the pace for the event by earning silver, and competitors in bobsled and skeleton combined forces to win the 2013 World Championship title in the team event. The U.S. has high hopes of securing additional medals in the upcoming skeleton and four-man bobsled races.
The detailed schedule is as follows, with all times listed in local time and ET in parentheses:
Thursday, Jan. 31
9 a.m. (3 a.m.)-Women's skeleton race heat #1
10:45 a.m. (4:45 a.m.) -Women's skeleton race heat #2
Friday, Feb. 1
9 a.m. (3 a.m.) - Women's skeleton race heat #3
10:45 p.m. (4:45 a.m.) - Women's skeleton race heat #4
1 p.m. (7 a.m.) -Men's skeleton race heat #1
2:45 p.m. (8:45 a.m.) -Men's skeleton race heat #2
Saturday, Feb. 2
8:45 a.m. (2:45 a.m.)- Men's four-man bobsled heat #1
10:45 a.m. (4:30 a.m.)- Men's four-man bobsled race heat #2
1:15 p.m. (7:15 a.m.)- Men's skeleton race heat #3
3 p.m. (9 a.m.)- Men's skeleton race heat #4
Sunday, Feb. 3
10 a.m. (4 a.m.)- Men's four-man bobsled race heat #3
11:45 a.m. (5:45 a.m.)-Men's four-man bobsled race heat #4
Noelle Pikus-Pace (Orem, Utah) dominated the women's skeleton heat in the team event to catapult the squad into the lead. Pikus-Pace's time was 0.84 seconds faster than any other women's skeleton competitor in the event, which bodes well for the American in this upcoming weekend's race for the title. Pikus-Pace was the first U.S. women's skeleton athlete to ever claim the World Championship title six years ago, and she did so by the largest margin in women's skeleton history. Her record-breaking runs were on the natural made St. Moritz track in 2007, and Pikus-Pace hopes to make history again as the first U.S. women's skeleton racer to earn two World Championship titles.
Katie Uhlaender (Breckenridge, Colo.) will challenge her teammate for the historic rights as the first American woman to earn two World Championship titles. Uhlaender has two World Cup titles and has competed in two Olympics, but had yet to win a World Championship title until last year. She raced a gold medal performance in Lake Placid, N.Y., and is a favorite heading into this weekend as the defending champion. Uhlaender joined Pikus-Pace on the podium in 2007 as the bronze medalist, and has historically done well on the St. Moritz course. If Uhlaender wins, she'll be the most decorated women's skeleton athlete in World Championship history.
Men's skeleton competitor Matt Antoine (Prairie du Chien, Wisc.) earned his second career World Cup medal, bronze, in St. Moritz last season. Antoine's smooth sliding style is suitable for the long natural made course. John Daly (Smithtown, N.Y.) finished fifth in St. Moritz last season, which was his career best World Cup result prior to his fourth place finish in Lake Placid last November. Latvian Martins Dukurs will be tough for anyone to beat and is the gold medal favorite. The three-time World Cup champion will be aiming to win his third consecutive World Championship title. The only competitor that may be able to threaten Dukurs for the win is Frank Rommel from Germany, who was triumphant over Dukurs already once this season in Whistler, Canada.
Defending World Champion Steven Holcomb (Park City, Utah) will once again team with his USA-1 powerhouse push crew of Steve Langton (Melrose, Mass.), Justin Olsen (San Antonio, Texas) and Curt Tomasevicz (Shelby, Neb.). The crew started the season off strong with two silver medal performances, and is optimistic about finishing the season on top with World Championship gold.
Nick Cunningham (Monterey, Calif.) kicked off his first ever World Cup season at the helm with a bronze medal performance in Lake Placid, and he hopes to be back on the podium alongside his USA-2 push team of Andreas Drbal (Belmont, Calif.), Adam Clark (Owenton, Ky.) and Chris Fogt (Alpine, Utah).
Codie Bascue (Whitehall, N.Y.) earned his position as pilot of USA-3 after earning 13 medals on the North American tour, eight of them gold. Jesse Beckom (Chicago, Ill.), Johnny Quinn (McKinney, Texas) and Nic Taylor (Hayward, Calif.) will join Bascue in his first career World Championship appearance.
The Americans will be up against tough competition for the four-man title. German pilot Maximilian Arndt was runner-up last season and his teammate Thomas Florschuetz will be eager to claim his first title after securing several silver medals in his career. Alexander Zubkov from Russia claimed five World Cup victories this season and is the top favorite for gold, while Beat Hefti is expected to post big numbers on his home track.
Universal Sports will be broadcasting the events same day delay with several re-airs for each competition to make sure you don't miss the action. The schedule is as follows, with all times listed in ET.
Friday, Feb. 1
1-2 p.m. -Women's skeleton
6-7 p.m. -Women's skeleton (re-air)
9-10 p.m.-Women's skeleton (re-air)
Saturday, Feb. 2
12-1 a.m. -Women's skeleton (re-air)
9-10 a.m. -Women's skeleton (re-air)
1-2 pm. -Men's skeleton
10:30-11:30 p.m. -Men's skeleton (re-air)
Sunday, Feb. 3
4-5 a.m. -Men's skeleton (re-air)
9-10 a.m. -Men's skeleton (re-air)
1-2 p.m. -Men's four-man bobsled
9-10 p.m. -Men's four-man bobsled (re-air)
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