![]() Though there is more sliding around, that doesn't mean there are more accidents than other bobsled events. ![]() Image: BEAUTIFUL SPORTS/Orangepictures/picture alliance "It feels and reacts very differently so you just need to be aware and work on the switching from one event to the other within a day." Elana Meyers Taylor: 'Monobob in general is just a whole new animal'. "It's kind of like driving a little tiny sports car versus a bigger truck," the two-time gold medalist said. Because there is only one person, Humphries told DW, the point of balance is in the middle, and, without weight on the back axis, monobobs slide and fishtail around the track much more easily. "I feel like I'm still trying to get the hang of it."īecause there is only one person in the sled, monobob handles very differently to two-person and four-person sleds. "Monobob in general is just a whole new animal," Meyers Taylor, who won the 2021-22 Women's Monobob Series, told DW. Drivers have to push the sled from behind before sliding forward into their seat. The one-seater sled is a very similar size to the two-person one, but, because it's only pushed by one person, it doesn't have a handle that pops up from the nose. "It's really cool that women have a second event." What is the monobob? "It's a dual burden, but it's clearly a second chance to get a medal," Nolte told DW. That means that some of the biggest names in women's bobsledding - the US' Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor, Canada's Cynthia Appiah and Germany's Laura Nolte and Mariama Jamanka - will have another opportunity to win a medal at the Olympic Games. In its second season as an International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) discipline, the women-only event will make its Olympic debut. It's the monobob, which debuted at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. It looks very similar to the two-man bobsled that has been sliding down Olympic tracks for nearly a century, but this time, there will be just one person in it. On Sunday, a new sled was zipping down the Yanqing Sliding Centre.
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