The battle between German bobsleigh pilots Johannes Lochner and Francesco Friedrich was always likely to be one of the highlights of the Olympic sliding action and, on the evidence of this week’s ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 21 : Germany’s Johannes Lochner stamped his authority all over the Four-Man bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics on Saturday, opening a huge halfway lead in a crash-strewn ...

The duo picked up speed in the second half of each of their runs to take a 0.46 second lead into the final two efforts, with their closest challengers being Latvian world cup winners Oskars Melbardis ...