At 66 years old, Flavor Flav went 106 kilometres per hour. That was all it took to get him hooked on sliding.

Meet the newest fan of the United States bobsled and skeleton program: A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, founding member of Public Enemy, reality show star and now, an aspiring slider. USA Bobsled and Skeleton announced Flav as its new official hype man Monday, not long after he spent a couple days around the team at the 2002 Olympic track in Utah.

And he plans to be with the team at the Milan-Cortina Olympics in February.

"The partnership is a blessing," Flav said from Park City, Utah. "It's cooler than Cool Runnings. It's Coolest Runnings."

The 66-year-old Flav — his legal name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr. — spent time with the bobsled and skeleton teams this past week. He we

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