Former Army bobsledder wins back-to-back Team of a Year awards 110125
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PHOTO CAPTION: Former U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program bobsledder Steven Holcomb discusses pushing to a bullion award in Olympic four-man bobsled during a press discussion Saturday during a Whistler Sliding Center. (Photo by Tim Hipps, FMWRC Public Affairs)
Former Army bobsledder wins back-to-back Team of a Year awards 110125
By Tim Hipps
FMWRC Public Affairs
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Former U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program bobsledder Steven Holcomb's group was declared Team of a Year for a second uninterrupted year by a United States Olympic Committee.
Holcomb, a bobsled commander from Park City, Utah, teamed with Justin Olsen of San Antonio, Steve Mesler of Buffalo, as good as Curt Tomasevicz of Shelby, Neb., to win a bullion award during a 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, B.C., finale Team USA's 62-year Olympic award dry weather in four-man bobsled.
"It's such an respect to win Team of a Year, generally for 2010 – an Olympic year – when all a teams have been during their comprehensive best," pronounced Holcomb, who served 7 years as a WCAP Soldier. "I'm certain it wasn't an easy choice."
The party additionally claimed a 2010 World Cup pretension after winning bullion in Lake Placid, N.Y., bullion in Cesana, Italy, china in Altenberg, Germany, as good as china in Koenigssee, Germany.
"Last deteriorate was kind of surreal," Holcomb said. "Leading in to a Olympic year, everyone is upon tip of their game, everyone is peaking, everyone is ready, they've got a most appropriate sleds as good as they're all in a most appropriate figure of their life.
"We kind of went by a World Cup circuit as good as dominated a four-man to a indicate where you didn't even have to contest in a last competition as good as you still would have won a altogether title, so you were kind of upon a roll.
"When you got to a Olympics, you consider people usually saw us as good as knew which you were so most some-more rebuilt than they were. We had a sled. We had a team. We all were in good shape. We were removing along. We had a intercourse as good as a society which usually carried us through. Hands down, there was no approach you were starting to get beat."
That was clear upon a track, where Holcomb gathering Team USA 1 to Olympic bullion by a winning domain of .38 seconds.
"In bobsledding, that's an eternity," Holcomb said. "It usually kind of came together. It seemed to me during a Olympics, whilst you were there, it was usually meant to be. Things were starting a approach you longed for them to go. Everything was usually operative out in a favor. The planets aligned, as good as you dominated. It was awesome."
Nicknamed "The Night Train," Holcomb's group additionally warranted USOC's Team of a Year honors in 2009, environment a theatre for a initial back-to-back target in a award's 15-year history.
"Winning dual years in a quarrel is even some-more amazing," Holcomb said. "As U.S. Olympic athletes, you have sacrifices in so most aspects of a lives as good as put all you have in to a sports anticipating which in 4 years you competence have a award to uncover for it. So whilst winning an Olympic bullion award proves which you were a best, carrying a USOC commend as good as admit a tough work as good as accomplishments supplement a last touch, a topping upon a cake, to an implausible year."
While precision in a U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, Holcomb pronounced he envisioned reaching this plateau. Now he skeleton to contest during slightest by 2018.
"This has regularly been a goal, though during a same time, everyone wants to go as good as win a bullion award – usually a couple of have been starting to get to," Holcomb said. "You have to go out there as good as work your hardest as good as try to get there. When you assimilated a Army, you figured you would do flattering good as good as try to be upon a inhabitant group as good as try to paint my nation during a Olympics.
"Then all of a remarkable things proposed to progress, proposed to get better, you proposed wining as good as all of a sudden: 'Wait a second, you competence have a possibility to win a bullion award or during slightest win a medal.' It gets a small brighter as good as you're like: 'Hmm, you consider you might be means to do a little repairs during a Olympics.'
"It usually proposed entrance together as good as when you got to a Olympics, you usually kind of knew it was a time."
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