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Bobsledders Lueders and Brown settle for silver at Torino 2006

Broadcast Date: Feb. 19, 2006

For once in his storied bobsled career, driver Pierre Lueders is happy to take a back seat to his brakeman. The duo's silver medal for Canada at the 2006 Torino Olympics is made all the more sweet because of the struggles Lascelles Brown had to endure just to compete. A Jamaican with a Canadian wife, the brakeman was made a Canadian citizen less than a month before the Olympics. Today, he is overjoyed by both the medal and his new home. "I really, really appreciate Canada embracing me," he says in this 2006 CBC Radio report.

Bobsledders Lueders and Brown settle for silver at Torino 2006

• The 2006 Torino Olympic bobsleigh event was held at Cesana Pariol, Italy. The top three teams finished just .35 seconds apart, with Germany-1 taking the gold with a combined time of 3:43.38 for four runs, the Canada-1 team of Pierre Lueders and Lascelles Brown coming second at 3:43.59 and Switzerland-1 in third at 3:43.73. The Canada-2 sled of Serge Despres and David Bissett finished 11th with a time of 3:45.67.

• Lascelles Brown began bobsledding in 1999 and competed for the Jamaican Olympic bobsleigh team in 2002. He joined the Canadian team in 2004, winning medals in the 2005 two-man and four-man world championship events in Calgary. He applied for Canadian citizenship in 2005 and received it by special exemption just before the Olympics. His medal at Torino made him the first Jamaican-born athlete to win a Winter Olympics medal.

• Pierre Lueders is one of the most decorated bobsled athletes in history, with more than 90 world cup medals and two at the Olympics leading up to his bid for more in Vancouver in 2010.

Bobsledders Lueders and Brown settle for silver at Torino 2006

Medium: Radio

Program: CBC Radio News

Broadcast Date: Feb. 19, 2006

Guest(s): Lascelles Brown

Duration: 2:34

Photo: Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press

Last updated:
Jan. 22, 2010