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Laura Nolte of Germany skates in the 3rd women's monobob motorway race on Monday.
Laura Nolte of Germany skates in the 3rd women’s monobob motorway race on Monday. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)

The second half of the women’s monobob competition is underway, with Team USA Kaillie Humphries leading, followed by Canada Christine de Bruin and American colleagues Elana Meyers Taylor.

This is the first time this event has appeared at the Olympic Games, but what exactly is a monobob?

As the name suggests, this event features a female participant, tasked with quickly navigating a snowmobile down a windy and icy trail.

This is a personal version of bobsleigh specifically for female athletes. Snowmobile riders must push, steer, and brake their own sled that weighs at least 162 kilograms (more than 357 pounds).

This event combines with pre-existing traditional toboggan events: four men, two men and two women. As such, the Beijing Games marked the first time that a female sledding athlete had two chances to win a medal, even for a man.

In the women’s monobob event, each competitor’s sled was identical, eliminating any potential design advantage.

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