The UK bobsled team for the next season. Jackson is going to recovery

Since starting with the first race of the season will be five British crews at the start (two male and three female), the Federation has ensured the participation at the next Olympics in women's teams that by January 19, 2014 will be in the first fourteen positions while as regards the male bob the qualification will be centered only if the British bobbisti will be part of the top20. The Director of the British Bobsleigh racing, Gary Anderson, interviewed by the BBC has reassured England fans about the recovery from the Achilles tendon of the pilot John James Jackson, "John is making great strides, the doctors have told us that much likely we will see at the start as early as the first race of the season. " In the pink is also part of the brakemen Craig Pickering, the European silver medal in the 60 meters indoor track, which debuted last season in the world of bob. Pickering who missed the London Olympics due to injury, has long set two objectives for 2014: to participate in the Olympic Games in Sochi in two-man bobsleigh and take part in the Commonwealth Games athletics. Good news also from the area where the female rider of the movement Paula Walker seems to have successfully passed knee surgery became necessary after the injury suffered at the end of last season. From the first round of the season will also participate in the promising young British bobsleigh, Mica McNeil vice-junior world champion 2012, which will struggle with Victoria Olaoye for the post on the bob of Great Britain 2. Anderson continued the interview with British television network with optimism, "I'm sure Jackson in the four-man bob bob and Paula Walker in women will be among the major players in the upcoming Winter Olympics and a medal is not as impossible to achieve." The teams in the coming days will travel to Latvia for the first test on the icy, then move to France where they will prepare the opening event in Calgary, the first round of the World Cup bobsled 2013-2014. Female Team Pilote: Paula Walker, Mica McNeill, Victoria Olaoye Frenatrici: Rebekah Wilson, Sarah Adams, Gillian Cooke, Kelly Denyer, Lucy Onyforo, Nikki McSweeney Male Team Drivers: John Jackson. Lamin Deen Brakemen: Bruce Tasker, Ben Simons, Stu Benson, Joel Fearon, Craig Pickering, Andrew Matthews, John Bains, Toby Olubi, Henry Nwume, Dave Coleman.