Francesco Friedrich won every championship he could in bobsledding this season. The German great is now a world champion for ...

German Francesco Friedrich won a record-extending 16th men's bobsled world title, while Laura Nolte led a German medals sweep ...

Take the season’s biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsled, skeleton and luge, meaning either the Olympics or the world championships, and there have been 59 instances of sliders from one place ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Germany’s Francesco Friedrich is well on his way to another world bobsled title. And that was about the only predictable development in the four-man world championship race ...

Germany’s Francesco Friedrich is well on his way to another world bobsled title. And that was about the only predictable ...

When they’re not racing or practicing, team members like 17-year-old Adanna Johnson hang out in a small warehouse to tune up the metal runners underneath their sleds. (SOUNDBITE OF SANDING BOBSLED ...

German teammates Francesco Friedrich and Johannes Lochner have separated themselves from the pack going into the final ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SANDING BOBSLED RUNNERS) ESCOBAR: Johnson competed for Jamaica in the youth winter games just over a year ago. She says her hope is to establish herself at the professional level.