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U.S. Army Sgt. William Tavares, left, the Team USA luge coach, provides last-minute instructions before handing the sled to U.S. Army Sgts. Preston Griffall, center, and Matt Mortensen, right, for their first heat of the Olympic luge doubles event at Sanki Sliding Centre in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Feb. 12, 2014. Mortensen, a New York Guardsman, and Griffall, a Utah Guardsman, finished 14th with a two-run cumulative time of 1 minute, 41.703 seconds.

U. S. Army Sgt. Nick Cunningham, the bobsled driver, and Army Sgt. Dallas Robinson, the brakeman, are clocked at 81.4 mph as the seventh-fastest among 30 sleds in the second heat of Olympic two-man bobsled training with a time of 57.19 seconds at Sanki Sliding Centre in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, Feb. 13, 2014. Cunningham, a New York National Guardsman, and Robinson, a Kentucky National Guardsman, are assigned to the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program.

U.S. Army Capt. Chris Fogt, top, a bobsled brakeman, pushes Steven Holcomb to the sixth-fastest time among 30 sleds in Olympic two-man bobsled training at Sanki Sliding Centre in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, Feb.13, 2014. The U.S. duo was clocked at 81.4 mph with a time of 56.98 seconds. Fogt is assigned to the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, and Holcomb, a 2010 Olympic gold medal winner as a four-man bobsled driver, is a former program teammate and former Utah National Guardsman.