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| Date of Birth:
| November 24, 1980 |
|---|---|
| Birthplace: | Humboldt, SK |
| Ht: / Wt: | 6'0" / 227 lbs |
| Coach: | Tuffy LaTour |
| Language Spoken: | English |
| Occupation: | Real Estate Agent |
| Began Competing: | 2004 |
| Training site: | Canada Olympic Park |
| Pronunciation: | LIN-duhn RUSH |
| Position: | Pilot |
News
26 Feb 2010 4:53 PM
Bobsleigh: Rush's Canada 1 crew in second after Day 1
Canada 1's four-man sled piloted by Lyndon Rush of Humboldt, Sask., is in second place and 0.40 seconds off the pace after two of four runs at the Whistler Sliding Centre. Veteran Pierre Lueders and crew are in sixth.
26 Feb 2010 12:38 AM
Bobsleigh: U.S. hopes to ride Night Train to gold
American bobsledder Steve Holcomb looks a bit like the guy who just showed up and jumped into the sled. He's less sculpted than he is moulded, but put him and the rest of the U.S. team together and stand back.
23 Feb 2010 3:40 PM
Bobsleigh: Rush hints at retirement
All along the assumption has been that this would likely be Pierre Lueders' last Olympics. But it's Lyndon Rush who has come closest to making the definitive retirement statement.
21 Feb 2010 7:51 PM
Bobsleigh: No podium for sliding newcomer Lumsden
Jesse Lumsden stood in the leader's area with Pierre Lueders and as the numbers on the monitor turned green and Ivo Ruegg's Swiss sled started to eat into Lueders's time, he looked away.
20 Feb 2010 9:09 PM
Bobsleigh: Rush crashes out of contention in second run
Canada's Lyndon Rush and Lascelles Brown were in third after the first of two opening day runs in men's two-man bobsleigh, but a crash in the second run saw them sink to 21st.
19 Feb 2010 11:15 PM
Bobsleigh: Preview: men's two-man bobsled
Andre Lange would be the prohibitive favourite even if Beat Hefti of Switzerland, the overall World Cup champion, hadn't pulled out due to the after-effects of a collision in training.
19 Feb 2010 11:15 PM
Bobsleigh: Live Now: Men's Two-Man Bobsled
Lyndon Rush pilots Canada 1 while Pierre Lueders steers Canada 2 in the first of two runs today on the Whistler track. Click here to watch it live online with real-time stats.
18 Feb 2010 4:42 PM
Bobsleigh: Swiss Pilot Hefti questionable after training crash
The status of Beat Hefti - the favourite to win the Olympic gold medal in two-man bobsled - was up in the air Thursday, one day after the Swiss pilot slammed his head in a high-speed wipeout at the Whistler Sliding Centre.
18 Feb 2010 12:47 PM
Bobsleigh: Rush plays down Whistler's danger
Canada 1 driver says Lake Placid, Altenberg tracks are tougher after a night session of two training runs marred by several crashes
12 Feb 2010 10:34 AM
Bobsleigh: Rivals: Sliding
Everybody wants to beat the Germans in sliding sports - including the Germans. The country's sliding athletes sliders are developed the way hockey players are developed in Canada.
11 Feb 2010 6:53 PM
Bobsleigh: Canada's Brown could make bobsleigh history
Canadian bobsledder Lascalles Brown is out to become the first Jamaican to win a gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics.
27 Jan 2010 12:00 AM
Bobsleigh: Canada nominates bobsleigh, skeleton teams
World Cup and Olympic medallists headline the strong bobsleigh and skeleton teams that were nominated to the Olympic Winter Games, Wednesday. The 18 athletes were revealed in Calgary.
24 Jan 2010 5:46 PM
Bobsleigh: Disappointing races for Canadian bobsleigh crews
After a seventh and 16th place result for the two Canadian sleds, the teams have some work to do before the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.
24 Jan 2010 12:57 PM
Bobsleigh: Andre Lange wins four man World Cup bobsled race
Andre Lange of Germany has won the season-ending four-man World Cup bobsled race to capture the European championship title.
23 Jan 2010 1:44 PM
Bobsleigh: Lumsden, Lueders 8th in two-man
Canadian bobsledders Pierre Lueders and Jesse Lumsden competed in their last two-man race before the Olympic Games on Saturday in Austria, turning in an eighth place finish.
16 Jan 2010 11:59 AM
Bobsleigh: Rush finds another gear
Canadian bobsledders Lyndon Rush and Lascalles Brown tied for first place at a World Cup race in St. Moritz, Saturday.
11 Jan 2010 10:51 PM
Bobsleigh: Després denied his moment on the main stage
While Lyndon Rush and Pierre Lueders hogged the spotlight on the World Cup bobsleigh circuit, Serge Després beavered away in a lower-tier series trying to make the best of long odds of qualifying for the 2010 Olympics.
10 Jan 2010 7:45 AM
Bobsleigh: Lueders, Rush crack top-10 at World Cup
Veteran Canadian pilot Pierre Lueders drove his four-man crew to ninth place on Sunday at a bobsleigh World Cup in Germany, edging fellow Canadian Lyndon Rush, who was 10th. Andre Lange of Germany won gold.
03 Jan 2010 9:12 PM
Bobsleigh: Offering support to Olympians
B2ten is in many ways an attitude as well as a program that seems to fly in the face of the just-happy-to-be-here-and-set-a-personal-best stereotype too many Canadians still have of their amateur athletes.
20 Dec 2009 12:29 PM
Bobsleigh: Lange completes bobsled sweep, Canada's Rush 4th
Two-time Olympic champion Andre Lange won a four-man bobsled World Cup race in his final appearance on his home track in Germany, adding to his previous victory in the two-man event. Canada finished fourth.
19 Dec 2009 8:33 AM
Bobsleigh: Canada earns 1-2 finish at bobsleigh World Cup
Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse won gold, and Helen Upperton and Jennifer Ciochetti added a silver medal as Canada finished 1-2 at a bobsleigh World Cup in Alternberg, Germany on Saturday.
13 Dec 2009 10:00 AM
Bobsleigh: Holcomb slides to 3rd straight victory, Lueders 13th
A day after he pulled his groin in the two-man event, Canada's Pierre Lueders was back in action, piloting his four-man team to a 13th place finish. American Steven Holcomb drove his crew to its third straight win.
12 Dec 2009 11:49 AM
Bobsleigh: Lueders pulls groin at World Cup event
Saturday would not have been a good day to ask Pierre Lueders to carry the Olympic flame. Most likely, he would have extinguished it after a pulled groin in his first run of the World Cup two-man bobsleigh race.
06 Dec 2009 12:00 AM
Bobsleigh: Everything coming together for Rush
Lyndon Rush drove Canada to a bronze medal in a World Cup four-man bobsleigh event Sunday behind American Steve Holcomb and Swiss pilot Ivo Rüegg. Pierre Lueders finished 10th.
05 Dec 2009 12:00 AM
Bobsleigh: Upperton just misses the podium in Cesana
Bobsleigh pilot Helen Upperton of Calgary and brakeman Jenny Ciochetti of Edmonton finished fourth at the World Cup in Cesana, Italy on Saturday. The Canada 1 sled missed out on bronze by 0.06 seconds.
03 Dec 2009 10:11 PM
Sports: Fully-booked World Cup weekend
From speed skaters on Canadian soil to Canada's curling selection tournament to bobsleigh and skeleton on the 2006 Olympic track in Italy, it's a busy weekend on the World Cup circuit.
22 Nov 2009 7:13 PM
Bobsleigh: Canada suffers bobsleigh setback
Without his brakeman Lascelles Brown, out due to ankle injury, Lyndon Rush's team falls short at World Cup event.
22 Nov 2009 12:23 PM
Sports: USA bobsleigh goes 1-2 on its home track
Steve Holcomb and John Napier took gold and silver ahead of Austria in the second four-man World Cup race of the year. Lyndon Rush was Canada's top finisher in seventh at the event in Lake Placid, NY.
20 Nov 2009 9:27 PM
Bobsleigh: Two-way race
Pierre Lueders has been Canada's king of the bobsleigh track for years. But in a crazy sport with alpha personalities, along comes Lyndon Rush, forcing Lueders to share the road (and talent) with his countrymen.
14 Nov 2009 9:28 PM
Bobsleigh: Canada's 4-man golden at bobsleigh opener
Lyndon Rush of Humboldt, Sask., guided Canada's four-man sled to a gold medal on Saturday at the bobsleigh World Cup season opener in Park City, Utah.
14 Nov 2009 1:57 AM
Bobsleigh: Swiss win gold in bobsleigh's two-man
The Swiss team of Beat Hefti and Alex Baumann won gold in the two-man bobsleigh race at the World Cup opener, with American Todd Hays winning silver. It was a rough meet for Canada's sleds, which finished 7th and 9th.
09 Nov 2009 4:21 PM
Bobsleigh: Bobsleigh season preview
As the best bobsledders in the world gear up for their first World Cup races of the season, Olympic analysts Chris Lori and Christina Smith weigh in on what to expect out of the World Cup circuit this year.
28 Oct 2009 12:00 AM
Bobsleigh: Bobsleigh Canada releases World Cup roster
Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton named 32 gutsy sliders Wednesday to its national squads. The group has an impressive track record that bodes well for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
18 Sep 2009 7:48 PM
Bobsleigh: Fully Focused: Lascelles Brown
Lascelles Brown might ride in the stern of the rocket sled as one of the world's best brakemen, but he takes a back seat to no one when it comes to determination.
20 Aug 2009 6:02 PM
Health and Wellness: Urinating in front of strangers a fact of Olympic life
When you're an Olympian in Canada, you sign part of your dignity and privacy away to prove you don't cheat. In addition to providing samples during competition, you go through no-notice testing at home.
12 Aug 2009 11:56 AM
Bobsleigh: Another football player turned Olympian?
An Ottawa Gee-Gees linebacker is the latest Canadian university football player to get a shot at making a future winter Olympic team, while the Moose talks leadership with Canada's bobsleigh and skeleton athletes.
01 Aug 2009 4:35 PM
Bobsleigh: From the football field to the fibreglass sled
Camps tested bobsleigh hopefuls around Canada in July. Lyndon Rush, in Calgary to remember his pre-sliding roots during a TSN broadcast of Saturday's CFL game, is proof of how far these camps can take you.
22 Jul 2009 9:24 AM
Bobsleigh: The fast track to success
Hoping to become an Olympian but worried it's a little late in the game? You might be in luck - if you're naturally strong enough, fast enough, powerful enough... and if you like wearing spandex.
06 Mar 2009 10:27 AM
Bobsleigh: Lueders: The bobsleigh team lacks passion
Bobsleigh pilot Pierre Lueders has reportedly taken a shot at the Canadian Olympic team, saying there is too much complacency and not enough passion as athletes prepare for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
01 Mar 2009 11:25 AM
Bobsleigh: Holcomb's gold ends 50-year drought for U.S.
U.S.A-1 pilot Steven Holcomb won the four-man bobsleigh World Championship on home soil Sunday, ending a 50-year drought for the United States in the event.
28 Feb 2009 12:07 PM
Bobsleigh: Holcomb rockets into lead
After the first two runs of four at the bobsleigh World Championships, Holcomb and his U.S. team posted a time nearly half a second faster than their nearest competitors.
17 Feb 2009 5:27 PM
Health and Wellness: Eating their way to gold
Eating is basic to our survival, yet it's one of the biggest challenges for Canada's 2010 Olympic athletes.
13 Feb 2009 7:08 PM
Bobsleigh: Holcomb takes four-man gold at home
American bobsled-pilot Steven Holcomb negotiated the Park City track to lead his team to a gold-medal World Cup finish, Friday. Pierre Lueders piloted the top Canadian sled, finishing 12th.
08 Feb 2009 5:38 PM
Bobsleigh: The need for speed
After the weekend's Olympic test events, it seems The Whistler Sliding Centre has passed. Gone are suggestions the track might be too dangerous. Instead, the high speeds of the track are the talk of the town.
07 Feb 2009 10:47 PM
Bobsleigh: Latvia posts record bobsleigh speeds in Whistler
Latvia's Janis Minins posted speeds of over 150 km/h on his way Latvia 1's first gold medal of the World Cup season. Despite his new, innovative sled, Canada's Pierre Lueders finished fourth.
06 Feb 2009 9:13 PM
Bobsleigh: Lueders, Bissett settle for bronze
Canada's Pierre Lueders and David Bissett led the pack going into the final bobsleigh run in Whistler, but costly errors knocked the Canada 1 sled out of first place. Germany's Thomas Florschuetz took the gold.
06 Feb 2009 12:00 AM
Bobsleigh: Rush looks good despite rickety sled
Buoyed by a strong fourth-place finish in the World Cup two-man bobsleigh event Friday night, the driver of Canada II wondered openly what he could do if he had a newer sled.
04 Feb 2009 4:40 PM
Bobsleigh: Lueders to race new secret sled in Whistler
Bobsledder Pierre Lueders has turned his season around, and now hopes his new secret weapon will give him the edge in the first World Cup sledding event at the home of the 2010 Olympics.
07 Dec 2008 12:00 AM
Bobsleigh: 15th-place bobsleigh finish frustrates Lyndon Rush
Germany's Karl Angerer wins four-man bobsled World Cup race shortened to one run because of heavy snowfall
06 Dec 2008 12:00 AM
Bobsleigh: Germany's Lange wins 40th bobsleigh race
Lyndon Rush, of Humboldt, Sask., and Calgary's Lascelles Brown posted a 14th-place finish in Saturday's World Cup race
30 Nov 2008 12:00 AM
Bobsleigh: Slow start for Canada's bobsleigh team
Edmonton's Pierre Lueders drives Canada 1 sled into 11th spot while Rush's crew finished 22nd
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