Bobsled

Men's bobsled has been on the Winter Games program for a long time, a women's event was only added in 2002.

Trivia

America's bobsleigh team, led by Billy Fiske, won the gold at the 1932 Lake Placid Games. The team included Eddie Eagan, who was a boxing champion in the 1920 Games. Eagan remains the only person to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Games.
The Game sheld in Squaw Valley 1960 became the only Winter Games ever not to include bobsledding, as the organizing committee refused to build an expensive bobsled run for the mere nine nations that would use it.
In 1988, Jamaica entered its first bobsled team, finishing last. However, they did inspire a Hollywood film called Cool Runnings. (see video of the originals)
In 2002, USA's Vonetta Flowers became the first black athlete to earn a winter games gold medal, doing so in the women's bobsleigh.