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Israel's AJ Edelman, front, Menachem Chen, Uri Zisman and Omer Katz start for a four-man bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 21, 2026. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
February 22, 2026, 5:42 pm
Israel limps away from Winter Olympics overshadowed by bobsleigh team’s drama
After scrappy group fought for years for a spot on the Olympic stage, its legacy is tainted by disqualification, and the whole delegation’s accomplishments at the Games have been swallowed up
By Amy Spiro
Israel's AJ Edelman, left, Menachem Chen, Uri Zisman and Omer Katz arrive at the finish during a four-man bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 21, 2026. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
February 22, 2026, 9:19 am
Israel disqualifies its own Olympic bobsleigh team for lying to officials
Team tried to let Ward Fawarseh, an alternate, compete by faking another member’s medical exam, Olympic Committee of Israel says, calling behavior ‘against fair and sportsmanlike conduct’
By Amy Spiro
Israel's AJ Edelman (left) Menachem Chen, Uri Zisman and Omer Katz slide down the track during a four-man bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, February 21, 2026. (AP/Aijaz Rahi)
February 21, 2026, 8:40 pm
Italian broadcaster apologizes after commentator calls to ‘avoid’ Israeli bobsleigh team
RAI Sport’s interim director says on-air remark during Winter Olympics coverage was ‘unacceptable’ and that an internal review has already been launched
By Amy Spiro
Israel's Adam Edelman (left) and Menachem Chen congratulate each other after competing in the bobsleigh men's 2-man heat 3 at Cortina Sliding Center during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina on February 17, 2026. (Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)
February 17, 2026, 10:31 pm
Jubilant Israeli team celebrates last-place finish in Olympic 2-man bobsleigh event
With eyes already on upcoming four-man race, team pilot AJ Edelman says after wrapping up first event that ‘we’re very proud — Israel is in the Olympics, baby!’
By Amy Spiro
Israel's AJ Edelman salutes the public at the end of a two-man bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
February 17, 2026, 1:13 pm
Swiss TV calls Israeli Olympic bobsleigh captain a ‘supporter of genocide’ in Gaza
Commentator uses entire 2-minute run to slam AJ Edelman, complain that Israelis are allowed to compete while Russia is banned; Edelman: I refuse to lend ‘credence’ to ‘diatribe’
By Ethan Rubinson and Amy Spiro
Israel's 2026 Winter Olympics bobsled team, clockwise from back left: Omer Katz, Ward Fawarseh, Uri Zisman, AJ Edelman, Menachem Chen and coach Itamar Shprinz. (Courtesy)
February 14, 2026, 5:01 pm
Israel’s bobsled team is chasing more than medals in its first Olympic outing in Milan
When the crew in blue and white hits the ice next week, it will be making history with AJ Edelman, the first Orthodox winter Olympian
By jacob gurvis
Israel's Noa Szollos reacts after competing in the second run of the Women's Slalom, as part of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2025-2026, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, January 4, 2026. (Jure Makovec / AFP)
February 5, 2026, 11:52 am
On skis, sleds and skates, Israel’s Winter Olympians ready to give their all in Italy
Israel is sending nine Olympians and one Paralympian to the Milano Cortina Games, with modest aims of setting new Israeli records and proudly flying the flag of the Jewish state
By Amy Spiro
Israel's bobsled team, led by AJ Edelman (second from right) poses with the Israeli flag after a race in Lake Placid, New York. (Courtesy Olympic Committee of Israel)
January 22, 2026, 8:07 pm
Israel’s bobsleigh team clinches spot at 2026 Winter Olympics
After championing the cause for the past eight years, team pilot AJ Edelman leads four-man squad to Milano Cortina: ‘Let’s go make more history’
By Amy Spiro
Mariia Seniuk of Israel performs during the women's short program at the figure skating world championships, March 26, 2025, in Boston. (AP/Charles Krupa)
December 31, 2025, 6:46 pm
Fate of Israel’s tiny Winter Olympics delegation on thin ice over bureaucratic hurdles
Under new regulations and with no sitting interior minister, Israeli Olympic hopefuls stuck without passports, throwing their participation into question just weeks ahead of games
By Amy Spiro
AJ Edelman (front) poses for a photo with the rest of the 2022 Israel Bobsled team (from left): Amitay Tzemach, Ward Fawarseh, Menachem Chen, Roman Shargaev and Amit Haas. (Courtesy AJ Edelman)
January 25, 2022, 2:20 pm
Israel’s 2022 Olympic bobsled dreams are crushed. But AJ Edelman is not giving up
After devastating razor-thin miss of spot at Beijing Games, Israeli-American Olympic skeleton veteran already has 2026 in his sights: ‘This mission is not done’
By Amy Spiro
Israel's Adam Edelman slows down at the end of the men's skeleton heat 2 during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on February 15, 2018. (AFP/Mark Ralston)
February 16, 2018, 5:14 am
Israel’s Edelman eliminated in Olympic skeleton
The ‘Hebrew Hammer’ falls short in the third round, finishing in 28th spot
By ToI Staff
Adam Edelman of Israel corners in his mens skeleton training session at the Olympic Sliding Centre, during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea on February 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mark Ralston)
February 15, 2018, 4:28 am
With ‘a lot of chutzpah,’ Israeli slider somehow found Pyeongchang
Largely self-taught, AJ Edelman set to compete against other atypical candidates from Nigeria, Taiwan
By Tim Reynolds
AJ Edelman
August 13, 2015, 3:17 pm
Will the ‘Hebrew Hammer’ achieve his 2018 Winter Olympics dream?
‘The first time I went down the track, it was like a drug,’ says AJ Edelman, an Orthodox American who is shooting to represent Israel on the lightning-speed skeleton sled
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
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