Nicknamed “Team Night Train,” the 2010 U.S. four-man bobsled team made history at the Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010, ending a 62-year drought for Team USA in the event with a gold-medal performance. The victory was America’s first in the four-man bobsled since 1948, and it came on one of the most challenging tracks in the world—the Whistler Sliding Centre—where six sleds crashed during the first two runs.

The group, made up of Steven Holcomb, Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler, and Curt Tomasevicz, had been building momentum in the lead-up to Vancouver. Just a year earlier, they captured gold at the 2009 world championships in Lake Placid—the first American win in that event in 50 years. Their dominance and chemistry on the ice set the stage for Olympic glory.

Team Night Train’s Olympic success garnered national attention, earning them a coveted spot on the cover of Sports Illustrated, only the second time bobsledding had ever graced the magazine. They were named Team USA’s Team of the Year in both 2009 and 2010, the first to receive the honor in back-to-back years—a feat not repeated until the U.S. women’s hockey team in 2017 and 2018.

Central to the team’s story was pilot Steven Holcomb, who overcame a degenerative eye disease that once threatened to end his career. Holcomb underwent a then-new procedure known as C3-R, which would later be renamed “Holcomb C3-R” in his honor—the first time a medical procedure was named after an Olympic athlete.

Inducted into the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2025, the 2010 four-man bobsled team remains a symbol of resilience, innovation, and teamwork, forever etched in the legacy of American winter sport.