As a youth growing up in Park City, Utah, Holcomb spent many years Alpine skiing before deciding in 2002 to try professional bobsledding.
In 2005 Wolfgang fractured his ankle and fibula during a test run at a new track in Cesana, Italy, the site of the lugeing and bobsledding events for the Winter Games held the following year in Turin.
World competition sledding is frequently described as toboganning, but it actually involves bobsledding, lugeing, and skeleton (Cresta) sledding as well.
Some 2,400 athletes representing 77 NOCs from places as unlikely as Cameroon, Kenya, India, Brazil, Iran, Thailand, and Fiji competed in 78 events, which included the return of skeleton sledding and the debut of women's bobsledding.
Some 2,400 athletes representing 77 national Olympic committees from places as unlikely as Cameroon, Kenya, India, Brazil, Iran, Thailand, and Fiji competed in 78 events, which included the return of skeleton sledding and the debut of women's bobsledding.
Though women have participated in bobsledding since the sport's creation, international competition for women did not begin until the 1990s.
That same year he resolved to focus on rowing pairs over single sculls and on the winter sport of bobsledding.
The Winter Olympic program includes sports played on snow or ice: biathlon, bobsledding, curling, ice hockey, ice skating (figure skating and speed skating), luge, skeleton (headfirst) sledding, skiing, ski jumping, and snowboarding.
For various forms of sled racing, see tobogganing; bobsledding; lugeing; skeleton sledding; dogsled racing.
After piloting the German four-man team to a silver medal at the Vancouver Games, he retired from bobsledding.
