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- Belgium first gained fame in bobsleighing during their debut at 1948.
- On medical advice Trenchard travelled to Switzerland to recuperate and boredom saw him taking up bobsleighing.
- Germany and Switzerland have proven the most successful bobsleighing nations measured by overall success in European, World, World Cup, and Olympic championships.
- Although sledding on snow or ice had been popular in many northern countries ( such as Arctic ), bobsleighing as a modern sport originated relatively recently.
- While convalescing in Switzerland he took up bobsleighing and after a heavy crash, Trenchard found that his paralysis was gone and that he could walk unaided.
- Highlights included free-fall parachuting with the RAF's Flying Falcons display team and bobsleighing ( his sled hit a hole in the ice and turned over, injuring him ).
- Another source for Albany's claim is a book published in Switzerland, " 100 Jahre Bobsport " ( " A Centenary of Bobsleighing " ), by Max Triet.
- He did not give up on sport entirely, however, and turned his eyes towards a career in bobsleighing instead, noting that he enjoyed the team aspect which was missing from his athletics career.
- In 1996, football and softball; in 1998, curling and ice hockey; in 2000, weightlifting, penthalon, taekwondo, and triathlon, in 2002, bobsleighing was added; in 2004, wrestling; in 2008, BMX . The last updated women s sports included in the Olympic games according to the IOC are boxing ( 2012 ) and ski jumping ( 2014 ) . [ 1]