American driver Brian Shimer and teammates, Mike Kohn, Doug Sharp, and Dan Steels, take a training run at the 2002 Salt Lake Games, where they won bronze.

Events

There are three bobsled events on the 2010 Olympic program: the two- and four-man events and the women's event, which made its Olympic debut at the 2002 Salt Lake Games.

Participants

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may qualify up to three sleds in each event (two-man, four-man and women's). An NOC may enter a maximum of 12 athletes in the men's competition (13, if an NOC qualifies three two-man teams, three four-man teams and has more than two drivers) and six in the women's competition. A nation has the right to choose which athletes it enters.