Four man bobsled results

Four man bobsled results
Lyndon Rush did not sound exactly like the first time cheerful after capturing the Olympic bronze medal with his consistent four-man crew in the bobsleigh event on Saturday (Feb. 27), the final event of the Olympic Games in 2010 on the Whistler Sliding Center.

It sounded like he was still thinking about one percent of a second: the distance that German Titan Andre Lange beat him to claim the silver medal, after leading the Rush Lang first three runs of the event. Lang, racing another third in the long final, as provided for in the fastest time of the heat, and when Rush slipped right after Lang, barely lost his grip on the silver medal spot.

“It was not victorious after that,” said Rush pull up the path and Whistler more than to see he’d fall behind Lang. “It’s starting to become triumphant now, you know what I mean, but at that stage I was pretty mad. We had ‘em for a period of three (working), and to abandon him in the heat of the past, you’re crazy.

“Yes, we won the Olympic bronze medal, but I like racing, right, and exit short on the last heat, I was crazy. I’ve always wanted to see the (No. 1) temperatures fall in the past. But yes, it’s beginning to set in that his friends did a great job , and you know what, I have a very good job. ”

While Steven Holcomb and his colleagues in the United States – 1 rink closed out victorious victory to claim their first Olympic bobsleigh gold since 1948, and the battle for second place in the fierce competition between Wang veteran, four times world champion, high Rush, who won their first World Cup this season with gold and bronze medals in four races and a victory in St. Moritz two man event.

By an external party in the standards, and that it was a great performance for Rush and his team: the men responsible for the brake and Chris Le Bihan, David Bissett and Lascelles Brown claimed Canada’s first medal in four-man bobsleigh event since 1964, in Rush at the Olympic Games for the first time. Said Wang also won Holcomb, who had set two track record in the first two games, with high temperatures and widened his lead in the third term, with her time in the final heat.

But the pilot had purported to make the Canadian race for the top of the podium, which is reinforced by tracking the house he noticed that affect the outcome of the last world championship four races of men.

“In four players It is a privilege to get more runs, so yes, I think we can do well, and I think we can win in the race,” said Rush. “I did not stop to think that we can win, so we got to the bottom and I saw No. 2.”

Lang, and two-time Olympic champion in four races and a two-time winner of the two events a man, and some of the conflicts was unusual in his first run, and was four hundredths of a second behind the rush heading into Saturday’s final two runs.

Lang, nine hundredths of a second behind the pilot from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, and after the third run, and then broke into the fourth fastest run of the contest for the post after the time a total of three minutes and 24.84 seconds, Rush 3:24.85.
“(Lang) are still able to fight and get the silver medal, and this kind of madness. I have runs great, and we got the bronze medal. This is a good way for the Germans, that’s how Andre is good,” Rush said sadly.

He added that his colleagues – the group that Le Bihan described as “band of brothers” – had been “in an attempt to cheer me. They think I’m crazy for being upset.”

Kevin Kuske, Lang team mate for a long time, noting that the German team battled hard to win that silver, which marks the fifth Olympic medal Wang and Kuske. Lang announced in the Olympic races in Whistler will be the end of his career slide decks, and the men responsible for the brakes and wore T-shirts with gold letters reading explains, “Thank you Andre.”

“This silver medal is certainly worth gold. We are fighting hard for this day. Particularly in the fourth heat, and we certainly gave everything. We fought, and thus difficult to really got the silver medal,” said Kuske.

Holcomb able to track and stopped for Whistler Wang and Kuske to become the first team to win the gold medal in four years and two of the events of men in the Games themselves, as Americans celebrated their historic gold, which culminated in the season, with Holcomb summit ends World Cup four-man overall.
“It is unbelievable. I have been working hard over the past four years and it paid off,” Holcomb said. “I saw this gold medal all the way back in 1994. That’s when I knew I really wanted an Olympic gold medal.”

Canada’s Pierre Lueders, and five times Olympic medalist in swimming, jumping from one spot last Friday (February 26) in sixth place to fifth place overall. Lueders, whose team has seen some difficult times and stressful days of delay after the six skis which crashed on Saturday did so before it expands the right in Canada – Skate 2, posted the fifth-and fourth-best times in two final runs to improve his standing in general.

“We knew we just have to put some pressure on the German and found a couple of hundreds at the bottom, but the fourth or fifth, I’m not really too worried about that. For older men like me, to compete at home during the Olympics, it is incredible, “said Lueders, resist the crowd screaming and waving flags that greeted all the sliders in the end in the dock.

Tuffy Latour Canadian ski team coach, praised the results achieved by athletes – including two medals for women, Rush and two bronze from the fifth before the end of Lueders – as a major achievement of the program, especially since they won the same amount of medals as a force Sledge the Germans.

“It’s a great Olympics for us, and this is really just the tops of runs,” said Latour. He did not show any disappointment at finishing one hundredth of a second behind Lang, who Rush colleagues call “The Great One”.

“We’ll take it, this is a good day,” said the coach.