USA Bobsled looks to future as Pyeongchang Olympics end

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — On the day the Olympic cauldron was being extinguished in South Korea, the proverbial torch for USA Bobsled was being passed as well.

Steve Langton, probably the best push athlete in the program's history, took his last ride.

Jean Schaefer, the mother of the late three-time Olympic medalist driver Steven Holcomb, was in the coaches' box.

Big changes are coming to the U.S. team for the next quadrennial, both on the ice and off, but the final day of the Pyeongchang Olympics showed hope for the future. Olympic rookie Codie Bascue led the U.S. on Sunday with a ninth-place finish in the four-man competition, the last race of a year the likes of which no one…