Do Svidaniâ!

It’s a little hard to believe, but the US had only three athletes who won multiple medals at Sochi 2014. Usually there are several short-track and long-track speed skaters with multiple gold, silver or bronze finishes, but not this time. Nope, the three who accomplished it are Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the ice dancers who won bronze in the team figure skating event and then won gold in the individual ice dancing, and Steve Holcomb for bronzes in both two-man and four-man bobsled.

On a warm Sunday afternoon at the Sanki Sliding Center, Holcomb drove USA-1, with Curt Tomasevicz, Steve Langton, and Chris Fogt, to third place in four-man bobsled. The medal matches the bronze he won with Langton in two-man last Monday. It also marks Holcomb’s third 62-year Olympic record. In 2010, he led the first U.S. sled to win four-man gold in 62 years, then won Team USA’s first two-man medal in 62 years earlier this week, and now becomes the first U.S. driver to medal in both two- and four-man in 62 years.

Depending on how you count, the US was either second in the medal count (28 total medals) or fourth (9 gold medals). That’s a pretty good result, I’d say. Congratulations to the entire team.