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...Team USA had once again sent a squad of its top sliders to go for gold in the bobsled competitions. Once again, they came home without a whiff of a podium. Clearly, things had to change. Between 1984 and the mid ‘90s, Bodine had risen through the ranks in NASCAR, and through his career racked up 565 starts, 37 poles and 18 wins. That included a win at the famed Daytona 500. No surprise he thought he could teach the American team a thing or two about winning races. “He said that he wanted to help us out, so he...

Steven Holcomb, the longtime U.S. bobsledding star who drove to three Olympic medals after beating a disease that nearly robbed him of his eyesight, was found dead in Lake Placid, New York, on Saturday. He was 37. The U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Bobsled and Skeleton announced the death of the 2010 gold medalist, the cause of which remains unclear. However, officials said there were no indications of foul play after a preliminary investigation at the Olympic Training Center where Holcomb was found in his room. An autopsy was tentatively scheduled for Sunday. The native of Park City, Utah, was...

As a kid, I remember watching the Army and Navy bobsled teams competing at Lake Placid on ABC Wide World of Sports. Check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bYntbG6SWU

LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Feb. 25, 2009 – Two Utah Army National Guard members won second- and third-place medals in the world championship bobsled competition at the Olympic Sports Complex here. Army Spc. Shauna Rohbock of the Utah National Guard, second from left, stands with the U.S. bobsled team at the bobsled world championships at the Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, N.Y., Feb 22, 2009. Rohbock and her teammate won a silver medal in the women's division. Courtesy photo by Todd Bissonette  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army Spc. Shauna Rohbock and her teammate, Elana Meyers, won silver...

TORINO, Italy (Army News Service, Feb. 22, 2006) – Spc. Steven Holcomb on Sunday finished the Two-Man Bobsled competition at the XX Winter Olympics in 14th place – 2.83 seconds away from gold. The driver of USA-2, Holcomb, along with brakeman Bill Schuffenhauer, completed the two-day, four-run competition in the Italian Alps at Cesana Pariol with a cumulative time of 3 minutes, 46.21 seconds. “I’m more of a Four-Man guy,” Holcomb said. “I was actually using this as kind of my warm-up to get the experience, get the feel of what it’s like being up there.” Holcomb finished the first...

Rohbock mobilized for duty in Iraq SALT LAKE CITY -- Bobsled driver Shauna Rohbock has been mobilized by the Utah National Guard for deployment to Iraq, ending her current World Cup competition, and -- she fears -- her Olympic dreams. Rohbock, 26, of Orem was among 500 Utah National Guard soldiers called to active duty earlier this month. She and other members of the 115th Engineer Group will complete training at Camp Williams before reporting to Fort Carson, Colo., in early January for final preparations before leaving for the Persian Gulf. "Obviously I'm devastated, because this ends my Olympic dreams,"...