The U.S. women got two bobsled medals at the Sochi Olympics, and today, the U.S. men followed suit.
After taking bronze for the first two-man medal for the U.S. since 1952, driver Steven Holcomb and his “Night Train 2" teammates - Steven Langton, Chris Fogt, and Curt Tomasevicz - brought home another bronze in the four-man this morning.
With that, Holcomb and his two-man partner Langton have not only become the lone Americans to win multiple individual medals in Sochi, but also the first two U.S. bobsledders to medal twice in a single Winter Games since 1952 (Stanley Benham/Patrick Martin).
Meryl Davis and Charlie White are the other Americans with multiple medals in Sochi thanks to their individual gold in ice dancing and a bronze in the team figure skating competition.
The four-man bronze also cements the U.S. sliders as the most decorated of the Sochi Games with seven medals.
While the American bobsled, skeleton and luge competitors did not earn any golds, they got two silvers (Elana Meyers/Lauryn Williams - women’s bobsled; Noelle Pikus-Pace - skeleton) and five bronzes (Holcomb/Langton - two-man; Holcomb/Langton/Fogt/Tomasevicz - four-man; Jamie Greubel/Aja Evans - women’s bobsled; Matt Antoine - skeleton; Erin Hamlin - luge).
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Up front, the Russians added one more gold medal as Alexander Zubkov became the sixth bobsled driver in Olympic history to win the two-man and four-man at a single Winter Olympics and the first since Germany’s Andre Lange pulled it off at Torino in 2006.
With that, Russia earned its 13th gold in Sochi and capped its final overall medal count at 33.
Zubkov and his RUS-1 team won out by .09 of a second over the Latvians, who claimed their first-ever Olympic medal in bobsled with Oskars Melbardis at the controls.
MEN’S BOBSLED - FOUR-MAN FINAL STANDINGS
(Aggregate time across four runs)
1. RUS-1 (Zubkov/Voyevoda/Trunenkov/Negodaylo), 3:40.60
2. LAT-1 (Melbardis/Vilkaste/Dreiskens/Strenga), 3:40.69
3. USA-1 (Holcomb/Langton/Fogt/Tomasevicz), 3:40.99
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12. USA-2 (Cunningham/Quinn/Olsen/Robinson), 3:42.70
