Wednesday 8 December 2010

Holcomb ready to shine home track in Bobsled


At the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Bobsled driver Steven Holcomb to compete at home for the first time since winning his historic gold medal, when the World Cup bobsled and skeleton circuit stops at the Utah Olympic Park in this week. He told the U.S. Bobsled and skeleton Federation website, “I know a few secrets there”. “I want to win there. I’d like to sweep the event if we can.”

Holcomb in the four man race had won Olympic gold and connected season opening World Cup race in that discipline two weeks ago on the Olympic course at Whistler. But he has an forced rival in Germany’s Manuel Machata, who already has won a two-man and a four-man race in his first season on the World Cup tour.

Fellow driver John Napier, he is forced to race for just the second time since returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army. On Tuesday. Attorney Jason Schatz said Canada won’t issue visas to people with drunken driving convictions or pending charges.

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