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Silver medal bobsled team retires
By Tom LaDue // U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton // August 11, 2006
Lake Placid, New York – The four-man bobsled team that broke a forty-six year medal drought for the United States, claiming a silver medal in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, will no longer be competing on the world stage. In February at the conclusion of the Torino Games, 2002 Olympic 4-man Silver Medalist Todd Hays (Del Rio, TX) hung up the spikes that saw him make a name for himself in the sport for the United States.
Following in Todd’s footsteps was four-time Olympian and 2002 Olympic 4-man Silver Medalist Randy Jones (Atlanta, GA) who announced his retirement at the conclusion of the Games to spend time with his wife and twin children. 2002 Olympic 4-man Silver Medalist Garret Hines (Atlanta, GA) who had retired prior to Torino was the first to hang them up but not the last. The last active member of the team, 2002 Olympic 4-man Silver Medalist Bill Schuffenhauer (Salt Lake City, UT) decided to turn in his spikes last month.
The last time the team raced together was at the World Championships in Lake Placid, New York in February 2003 where the team took the silver medal in the four-man race.
Also retiring from the sport of bobsled are 2006 Olympian Lorenzo Smith III (Kankakee, IL), Rocky Lanz (Gainsville, GA) and Jason Ross (Napoleon, MI).
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