Sunday, January 21, 2018

2018 USA Men's and Women's Bobsled teams named/More Olympic qualifiers

The USA named Lauren Gibbs, Jamie Gruebel Poser, Aja Evans and Elana Meyers Taylor to the USA women's bobsled team. Drivers are Elana Meyers Taylor and Jamie Gruebel Poser. Push athletes are Aja Evans and Lauren Gibbs.

Not Selected: Lolo Jones

The USA Men's bobsled team was also named. Making the Olympic team are: Steven Langton, Chris Fogt, Nate Weber, Justin Olsen, Sam McGuffie, Evan Weinstock, Carlo Valdes, Sam Michener, Chris Kinney, Nick Cunningham, Codie Bascue and Hakeem Abdul-Saboor.


Four Man(Drivers listed first, push athletes (3) listed last):

Justin Olsen/Nate Weber/Carlo Valdes/Chris Fogt
Nick Cunningham, Hakeem Abdul-Saboor, Chris Kinney, Sam Michener
Codie Bascue, Evan Weinstock, Steven Langton, Sam McGuffie

Two Man(Drivers listed first, push athletes listed last):

Justin Olsen/Evan Weinstock
Nick Cunningham/Hakeem Abdul-Saboor
Codie Bascue/Sam McGuffie


More Olympic qualifiers:

Shaun White, Jack Pates and Ben Ferguson in Men's Snowboard Halfpipe
Maddie Bowman and David Wise in Slopestyle
Red Gerard in Slopestyle/Big Air
Emily Dreissgacker, Maddie Phaneuf and Joanne Reid in women's Biathlon
Kendall Wesenberg, Katie Uhlaender, John Daly and Matt Antoine in Skeleton
Julia Marino, Jamie Anderson, Hailey Langland in women's Slopestyle/Big air
Kelly Clark, Chloe Kim, Maddie Mastro in women's Snowboard Halfpipe
Nick Goepper and Gus Kenworthy in men's Freeski Slopestyle


Not Selected to USA Olympic team: Joss Christensen in women's Ski Slopestyle, Hannah Teter in halfpipe, and Alex Deibold in Snowboard Cross.

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