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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — AJ Edelman and Menachem Chen are in last place out of 26 sleds at the midway point of the Olympic two-man bobsled race at the Milan Cortina Games. And they're thrilled.

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"Anyone can say anything about us, but you know what? They can only say it because we're here," said the team's founder, A.J. Edelman.

The team includes a diverse group of athletes, such as a pole-vaulter, sprinter, and former Olympian in skeleton ...

An apartment where the Israeli bobsled team was staying at for training ahead of the Winter Olympics was robbed, according to ...

Passports and “thousands of dollars” worth of other items were among what was taken, Israeli bobsled pilot AJ Edelman said.

But for Edelman, the 12-year journey that culminated in Israel’s first-ever Olympic bobsled appearance — which he has nicknamed “Shul Runnings,” a spin on the 1993 movie about Jamaica’s bobsled team — ...