PYEONGCHANG, South Korea —The U.S. bobsled team works constantly on being fast enough to compete on the World Cup tour each winter, and ultimately, to win medals at the Olympics every four years. But along the way, there’s something else it learns to do at a championship level: Packing.
More than any other sport in the Winter Games, bobsled requires heavy equipment, which for the U.S. team means moving roughly 10,000 pounds from event to event, over the Atlantic Ocean, between European cities and this year, of course, to South Korea.
“Bobsled is interesting to watch, but it’s very quick,” said Lenny Kasten, the national team manager for USA Bobsled & Skeleton.