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Olympic champion Lange retires POSTED: Feb 27, 10:53p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 10:53p ET The only bobsled driver to win four Olympic golds, Lange's brilliant racing career ended Saturday with a second-place finish in the four-man competition. The driver who had never been beaten inside the rings couldn't catch USA-1 driver Steve Holcomb, ending a 62-year gold-medal drought for the Americans.
Holcomb rides to historic gold POSTED: Feb 27, 6:37p ET | UPDATED: Feb 28, 4:10p ET
With one more perfect run down sliding's most difficult track, Steve Holcomb drove USA-1 to the Olympic gold medal in four-man bobsledding on Saturday, ending a 62-year drought for the Americans in the event.
Strained neck forces Napier to withdraw POSTED: Feb 27, 3:31p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 4:20p ET U.S. bobsledder John Napier is out of the Olympic four-man bobsled race because of a strained neck. The New York native crashed during the second run of four-man competition on Friday.
Holcomb, U.S. lead four-man bobsled POSTED: Feb 26, 7:07p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 3:34p ET American Steve Holcomb takes the lead midway through four-man bobsled competition, with his "Night Train" squad 17 hundredths of a second ahead of Canada's Lyndon Rush and Andre Lange of Germany. But as heavy snow fell across the ultra-fast Whistler track, curve 13 proved to be too treacherous, as six teams crashed, including USA-2's John Napier.
Holcomb looking to dance his way to Olympic gold POSTED: Feb 26, 4:12a ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 1:19p ET He's potbellied, barrel-chested, somehow able to squeeze 240 pounds into a racing suit that is stretched to the limit. He thought he was going blind a couple years ago. He carries a cell phone even when heading down an icy chute. He's Steven Holcomb - America's best bobsledder.
Latvia's Minins out of bobsled four-man field POSTED: Feb 26, 4:02a ET | UPDATED: Mar 5, 10:21a ET Latvia's Janis Minins has withdrawn from the four-man Olympic bobsled competition because two of his pushmen are injured.
U.S. bobsledder detained, released by police POSTED: Feb 25, 4:12p ET | UPDATED: Feb 25, 10:37p ET
American bobsledder Bill Schuffenhauer was detained and released by Canadian police after an argument with his fiancee.
Germany survive scare on rare lean day POSTED: Feb 25, 3:53p ET | UPDATED: Feb 25, 3:53p ET Germany survived a scary moment on the world's fastest track in the women's Olympic bobsled competition and endured a rare day without a medal at Whistler's Sliding Centre on Wednesday.
U.S. bobsled women earn Games' first sliding medal POSTED: Feb 25, 3:43a ET | UPDATED: Feb 26, 1:12a ET Driver Erin Pac and brakeman Elana Meyers took USA-2 to a bronze medal Wednesday in the women's bobsled competition, behind only two Canadian sleds on home ice - gold medalists Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse, and silver medalists Helen Upperton and Shelley-Ann Brown.
Canada finishes 1-2, U.S. third POSTED: Feb 24, 10:23p ET | UPDATED: Feb 25, 8:11a ET
Tonight, the Canadian and U.S. bobsled women made history, for its the first time in 87 Olympic sliding events that North America has swept the podium and won all three medals. Kaillie Humphries and Helen Upperton won gold and silver, respectively, and American driver Erin Pac took bronze.
Bodine takes racing expertise to bobsled POSTED: Feb 24, 5:47p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 1:49a ET
Nearly 20 years after getting his first look at a bobsled - against his better judgment, it's worth pointing out - Bodine, a former NASCAR star, has turned into a huge part of the U.S. sliding program. This week, the sleds Bodine helped build are in the mix for Olympic medals at the Vancouver Games, further proving that his vision was one the Americans not only needed, but benefited from greatly.