American pilot Steve Holcomb
Steve Holcomb American pilot finish area Saturday as the first four-man American gold medalist in 62 years. This target is breaking after a 50-year by winning a world championship at Lake Placid, N.Y., last year.
To do this, he lost Andre Lange belonging from Germany , 36-year-old who had won every Olympic race. — four of them, including this Olympics' two-man contest earlier this week.
"You wouldn't even know he's the best bobsledder in the world," Holcomb said at his opponent, who is retiring. He toldabout Lange as a regular Joe — not a pretentious bone in his body.
Which is funny, because it's exactly to Holcomb says about the new king of the track.
