Todd Hays
Todd Hays
Todd Dennys Haysis an American former bobsledder who competed from 1994 to 2006. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002, breaking a 46-year medal drought for the US national bobsleigh team...
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I thought the driver must have been unconscious and that we certainly were going to die. You have to remember on these bobsleds, there's no suspension and it's a steel frame mounted to a steel axle. When you start approaching speeds of 90 mph you can feel every vibration. It's like some someone pushes a piano on you and pushes you to the bottom of the sled. You go up to the top and you see your buddies doing it over and over again, so you want to continue to do it. As you do it, it gets less scary and more exciting and then you start searching for the speed.
definitely forward looking medal
I think we're going to be right there at the end in the medal count. I'm definitely looking forward to being a part of this U.S. team.
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Our chances are very good. There aren't but about five or six teams that will be right there for the medals. We have as good a chance as anybody.
definitely hopefully starting together
Hopefully we can get it all together for the games. I think we're definitely starting to peak.
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The pain was extreme. I still had to drive the sled down the track. I could feel the blood rushing out of my shoe. That's when I got concerned. I thought I'd lost a couple toes.
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My parents live 16 miles out on a dirt road and another mile on a different road. How the heck did they find the way out there? These guys are like the post office. Rain, snow, hail, they're there.
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I really have fun every day I do it. I'm a grown man, I get to put on Spandex, get in the fastest flexible flyer in the world and have fun with my buddies all day long. You can't get any better than that.
fast hoping last next pull quick
I haven't been fast in the two-man here at all, not last year, not in training. I just, for some reason, haven't been quick here. I have been fast in the four-man. ... I'm hoping we can pull it off next week.
ice
I had this big, long, ice roller-coaster in my mind, This is kind of a joke.
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I never dreamed about actually going to compete for a medal. We hadn't won a medal in 46 years, and I never dreamed a guy from Texas would be the one to get it done.
kid seen
He's my coach, he's one of my idols, so I've seen it done before. It's going to be real, real tough. I'm not going to kid you.
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I couldn't believe they found the place so quickly.
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I'm not missing the Olympic Games for any reason. I don't care if there is any security or not,
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If you watch his trips today, all four trips, all four starts, he was great. I don't know that he would have needed hot runners to win it today. That's the best two-man team in the world. They deserve the gold medal.