17 Feb 1928: A competitor in action on the Skeleton Track during the Skeleton Bobsleigh event at the 1928 Winter Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. \ Mandatory Credit: IOC Olympic Museum /Allsport

Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis (gold) of Germany compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Yunjong Won, Junglin Jun, Seo Youngwoo and Donghyun Kim (silver) of Republic of Korea compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Yunjong Won, Junglin Jun, Seo Youngwoo and Donghyun Kim (silver) of Republic of Korea compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Nico Walther, Kevin Kuske, Alexander Roediger and Eric Franke (silver) of Germany compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis (gold) of Germany compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis (gold) of Germany compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Canada Team Bobsleigh competing at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Copyright : 2010 / GETTY - All rights reserved.

The “USA I” four-man bobsleigh team received a trophy from Germany’s Werner Zahn after their victory in the event. Edward Eagan (in the foreground, third from the left) had just accomplished an exceptional double: he had already become Olympic heavyweight boxing champion at the Antwerp Games in 1920, and, in Lake Placid, became the first athlete to win a gold medal in both the Summer and the Winter Games ©IOC

Pilot Oskars Melbardis, Daumants Dreiskens, Arvis Vilkaste and Janis Strenga of Latvia team 1 compete a run during the Men's Four-Man Bobsleigh