Chris Lori (born July 24, 1962) is a

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driver who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four

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, he earned his best finish of fourth in the four-man event at

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. Lori won the Bobsleigh Overall World Cup four-man championship in 1989-90. He won nine Crystal Globes for top three finishes in Overall World Cup final standingsworld cup historical results at fibt.com and totaled twenty two World Cup medals and fourteen Canadian Championship titles. He Lori was instrumental in establishing Canada as a world power in the sport of bobsledding. In 1987, Lori cheated death in a horrific crash in Cervinia, Italy, a track now closed due to its high rate of severe injuries, where he broke two ribs, clavicle and nose, suffered severe lacerations requiring skin grafting on his face, shoulder, hands and thigh. The following year, he recovered to qualify for his first Olympic games. In 1990, he and his team returned to Cervinia in the second to last World Cup race of the year where they set the track record, putting the team in position to win the Overall World cup, which they accomplished by winning the final race in Calgary and becoming the first non-Europeans to win the Overall World Cup in bobsleigh. Chris Lori also competed on Canada's National Track and Field Team in the decathlon event in 1980 (Jr.), 1983, 1984 and 1985, although he did not qualify for the Olympic games, before fully committing to bobsledding, which he started in October 1984. As a track and field athlete, Lori won silver medal in the pole vault at the Jr. Nationals in 1980 and a silver medal at the Canadian University championships in 1984, and was awarded "All Canadian" honours. Lori later became coach of the

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team for the

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where the USA four-man teams won Olympic silver and bronze. His Olympic experience extends to becoming a part of the Canadian CTV Broadcast Team, as color analyst, at the Vancouver/Whistler 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Since 2001, Lori has become a foreign exchange trader, based in

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References

1992 bobsleigh four-man results

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080409025356/http://sports123.com/bob/mwc-4.html List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985

Team Canada profile

Official Chris Lori website

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lori, Chris Bobsledders at the 1988 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1992 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1998 Winter Olympics Canadian male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders of Canada Living people Sportspeople from Ontario Sportspeople from Vancouver University of Western Ontario alumni 1962 births