Steven Holcomb Drove To Victory Half Blind
February 28th, 2010 - 9:03 pm ICT by GDBy Meena Kar
Whistler, Feb 28, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Steven Holcomb, who led USA-1 bobsleigh along with three other members to victory on Saturday at Vancouver Olympic Winter Games has reportedly revealed that he still drives half blinded on the track. The team’s win has brought the nation a gold medal in this game after 62 years. Steven Holcomb has said that the eye surgery that he underwent in 2008 has left him with a clear vision and too much visionary input which is distracting for the athlete who prefers driving with instinct and feel. On Saturday, at the Four man bobsleigh finals, Steven Holcomb had stuck to this practice and piloted his team to the historical victory by driving partially blind.
Steven Holcomb suffered from an eye disease which results the cornea to conflate. He had suffered from this disease for a long time and during that period he had developed the instinctual style of driving reportedly. His vision was reportedly 25/100 before the surgery which did not allow him to gather much information about the track in which he drove.
On Saturday after Steven Holcomb won the game along with his partners Steve Mesler, Curtis Tomasevicz and Justin Olsen the player revealed the news to the media. Steven Holcomb has also won the 2009’s Four man bobsleigh World championship. At the finals the team has put a record timing at the first two runs and completed the third best in all times in the final run. Team USA completed in 3 minutes and 24.46 seconds. The silver was won by team Germany and the bronze by the host, team Canada.
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