CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Germany’s Laura Nolte edged American rival Kaysha Love to win the monobob test event on the new track for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Saturday. Nolte, the reigning Olympic and world champion in two-woman, finished 0.15 seconds ahead of Love, the world champion in monobob, an event which features only one competitor per sled. On a big day for bobsled's super power, Germany also won a two-man race and swept the podium with Johannes Lochner, Francesco Friedrich (+0.34) and Adam Ammour (+0.60) finishing 1-2-3. It was Lochner's 50th World Cup podium in two-man. Love, a former sprinter at UNLV, had the fastest starting times in both runs. But Nolte had the fastest run of the day at 59.67 seconds in her second trip down, moving her up from third after the open

See Full Page