The Bobsled Facebook chat is part of a broader move by T-Mobile to connect traditional phone calls with VOIP services.

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For more mountain fun, visit the nearby Utah Olympic Park to ride the bobsled and watch Olympians-in-training perform aerial twists into the splash pool.

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Mr. Bernanke is at best the man on the bobsled, he can steer it a bit right or left but he cannot make it go uphill.

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His main job is to push-start the bobsled in the first crucial moments, building momentum before jumping in and allowing the 34-year-old Florschutz to do the steering.

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The Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project refurbished the American team's sleds for two decades, but since the split, few wrenches have been taken to the fleet.

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Once people install the Facebook app, Bobsled installs an icon on their Facebook chat box so that they can click to call any of their Facebook friends.

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Even running back Herschel Walker made it to the Olympics albeit as a member of the 1992 two-man bobsled team.

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The U.S. also won Olympic gold in women's bobsled at Salt Lake City in 2002, but the two-man gold has eluded the American men since 1936.

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U.S.A. Olympic speed skating and bobsled team representatives trailed BMW Team Rahal Letterman over the weekend at the 59th Annual Twelve Hours of Sebring race.

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His sheer bulk -- weighing in at 120 kg as against 94 kg for Bolt -- was always going to be a barrier on the track, and he was persuaded to try a new challenge by Germany's national bobsled team coach Gerd Leopold.

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