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The USA four-man bobsled team of Kris Horn, Ryan Rager, Hunter Powell, and Caleb Furnel thankfully avoided serious injury after a terrifying crash at the start of a World Cup race in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Sunday.
Horn, the team’s driver, was forced to make a terrifying solo run down the track after Rager, Powell, and Furnel each had trouble getting into the sled at the start.
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Video of the incident shows Rager, second in line, stumble while trying to jump into the sled. As a result, he fell over the opposite side, which knocked Powell out of the sled as well and threw him into the icy surface of the track wall. Meanwhile, Furnel then could not get into place either, as his timing was thrown off.
Somehow, none of the U.S. sliders suffered serious injuries. and all X-rays taken came back negative, according to the team.
“(I’m) A little sore,” Powell told The Associated Press. “I should be fine in a couple days.”
USA Bobsled Driver Kris Horn Saved Himself With Quick Thinking
Now, I am certainly not a bobsled expert over here, beyond having seen the movie Cool Runnings a handful of times and watching every four years when the Winter Olympics roll around. But I am pretty darn sure that’s not how things are supposed to go.
With no additional bodies in the sled, Horn was left on a solo mission to steer the four-person sled down the ice at 75 miles per hour. Somehow, after surviving the harrowing order, he then had the awareness to slide to the back of the sled and pull the brake handles.
When he crossed the line, athletes and coaches from several other countries rushed to ensure he was okay.
“We are fortunate it wasn’t worse,” USA Bobsled head coach Chris Fogt told the AP.
Horn also crashed out of the two-man World Cup race on Saturday. and his brakeman for that race, Carsten Vissering, suffered an injury and was unable to compete in Sunday’s four-man race. Coincidentally, it was Rager, who seemingly started Sunday’s crash, that took Vissering’s spot in the four-man sled.