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Vonetta Flowers had her Summer Olympics hopes dashed twice after being unable to qualify for two U.S. track and field teams in 1996 and 2000 respectively. However, she went on to become the first Black athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Flowers was born October 29, 1973, and raised in Birmingham, […]

Nigeria will participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics games in PyeongChang after their women's team qualified in the bobsled category for the first time.

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Jamaica’s beloved bobsled team had to raise money just to get to Russia. Now they’ve arrived at the Sochi Games — but without their equipment. The carefree Jamaicans were unable to make their first practice runs Wednesday because their luggage, with the runners for their two-man sled as well as […]

02/06/14- Tom and the crew open the show talking about the Jamaican bobsled team, the Ray Nagin trial, Justin Bieber, and more!

According to USA Today, Olympic athlete LoLo Jones is currently under investigation for her role in a bar brawl. The brawl was between Jones and the stepdaughter of bobsled Hall-of-Famer, Tony Carlino. The two women were at Roomers, a popular club in Lake Placid, N.Y., when they got into an altercation and had to be […]