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Steven Holcomb
Steven Holcomb piloted the American four-man bobsled team to Olympic gold at the 2010 Vancouver Games, ending a 62-year American gold medal drought in the event that had persisted since the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics, making it one of the most significant American bobsled achievements in Olympic history. His personal story included overcoming a degenerative eye disease, keratoconus, that had left him nearly legally blind and threatened to end his competitive driving career entirely before an experimental corrective surgical procedure restored his vision enough to continue competing at the elite level. Holcomb's condition and his subsequent recovery became a significant part of his public story, and his eventual Olympic gold, achieved after a period when doctors had suggested his competitive career might be over, added particular resonance to America's long-awaited return to bobsled's top step of the podium. His death in 2017 at 37, attributed to a combination of sleep medication and alcohol, ended the career of one of American bobsled's most significant pilots, and Holcomb's 2010 gold remains one of the most celebrated individual achievements in the history of US Olympic bobsled.
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Eugenio Monti
Eugenio Monti won Olympic gold medals in bobsled at the 1968 Grenoble Games at 40 years old, capping a career that had earlier produced Olympic silver and bronze medals along with multiple World Championship titles across nearly two decades at the top of the sport. Monti became famous for an act of sportsmanship at the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics, when he lent a spare bolt to a British competing team whose sled had broken during the competition, an act that likely cost Monti's own team the gold medal but that he later said he had no regrets about, viewing sportsmanship as more important than the medal itself. That gesture earned Monti the first-ever Pierre de Coubertin Medal for sportsmanship, an award created specifically to recognize exceptional acts of fair play in Olympic competition, and the story remains one of the most frequently cited examples of sportsmanship in Olympic history. His combined Olympic medals across four different Games, spanning nearly two decades of elite competition, along with his celebrated act of sportsmanship, have made Monti one of the most significant and beloved figures in the history of Olympic bobsled.
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