Steve Holcomb started listing off all the places he’s been and things he’s done since driving the United States to its first four-man bobsledding gold medal in 62 years.
Midway through the list, he yawned.
Exhaustion is setting in for the king of the Olympic bobsled mountain.
Steve Holcomb and USA-1 came through with the win in the 4-man bobsleigh. Night Train certainly lived up to the hype of “fastest sled in the world.” Holcomb wasn’t joking when he said the 2-man was just a warm-up for 4-man. I don’t think USA-1 fell behind at any point, they always ended the run on top. Their starts were the fastest, their times were the best, they were undeniable. Hard to believe Holcomb nearly had to retire because of eye problems. The happy team consists of Holcomb, Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curt Tomasevicz. Their combined time was 3:24.46.
On an interesting side note; I found out today that Goeff Bodine of NASCAR fame got interested in bobsleigh in the 1990s and helped design the Night Train sled. What a cool bit of cross-sport cooperation!
VANCOUVER -- About three hours before he headed over to the Pacific Coliseum for what may well have been his last night of Olympic short-track, Apolo Ohno paused to file a post to his Twitter feed.
"It's time. Heart of a lion," he said. "I will give my all --heart, mind & spirit today. This is what it's about! All the way until the end! No regrets."
VANCOUVER ' Scott Niedermayer is the oldest member of that team that made a significant imprint on Canadian history Wednesday night and he says he'll leave it to the historians to categorize what we all witnessed.
It was clearly one of the best Canadian hockey performances of all time, up there with game two of the '87 Canada Cup, which Wayne Gretzky will tell you in, a quiet moment, was the best game he ever played in his life.
VANCOUVER ' It would be the height of our national arrogance to suggest Team Canada set the table stakes on Wednesday night and the Russians weren't interested in anteing up.
It would also be too easy to suggest that Canada's speed and physicality overwhelmed the supremely talented Russians; just as it would oversimplify things to aver the Russians' dazzling individual skill disintegrated in the jaws of the Maple Leaf's pound-and-pressure game.
VANCOUVER -- They call her Queen, South Korea's Kim Yu-Na , and the stunning performance that saw her win Olympic gold Thursday night was not just a coronation but an affirmation of how much better a figure skater she is than any other woman on Planet Earth.
To witness Kim on the ice is to evoke the same sentiment you get when sprinter Usain Bolt is waiting for the stick in the relay.
VANCOUVER ' The strategy was simple.
WEST VANCOUVER ' After a war of words that had simmered all week, the Australian and Chinese freestyle skiers took the fight to the jump ramp here in the women's aerials event Thursday night at the 2010 Olympics at Cypress Mountain.
WEST VANCOUVER -- After a war of words that had simmered all week, the Australian and Chinese freestyle skiers took the fight to the jump ramp here in the women's aerials event Thursday night at the 2010 Olympics at Cypress Mountain.
WHISTLER (Reuters) - Night Train pilot Steve Holcomb knows that a solid lump of Teutonic granite named Andre Lange is blocking the railroad to Olympic gold this weekend.
SportsHolcomb, who shoulders American hopes of a first men's bobsleigh gold since 1948, would not want it any other way and relishes the challenge of trying to outpace the sport's most decorated Olympian in this weekend's four-man.
The burly 29-year-old from Utah beat the so called Thuringia Express to win last year's world championships in Lake Placid and also topped this season's World Cup standings with his crew Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and brakeman Curtis Tomasevicz.
