US Wins Four-Man Bobsled Gold

After a sixty-two year drought, the United States won the gold medal in the four-man bobsled at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. A big reason for the success of the bobsled team has to do with the sled itself. The American team had been using second-hand sleds until NASCAR engineers started to design the US sleds.

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