Hays Leads Four-Man Going Into Last Heats

The Super Bowl of bobsledding ends today. The four-man event, a 400-foot drop over 15 curves that starts at an elevation of nearly 7,500 feet and slides past an expected 13,000 spectators, will run the last two heats with Todd Hays and his teammates on the USA-1 sled in first place.

Hays, who barely missed a bronze in the two-man event, will be aiming to break a 46-year Olympic medal drought for U.S. men’s bobsled.

Hays’ lead is 0.09 of a second over both the Switzerland-1 and Germany-2 sleds. Germany’s Christoph Langen, who won gold in the two-man and is the defending four-man Olympic champion, injured his heel and is in sixth.

Hays was a linebacker for Tulsa’s football team and its captain in the 1991 Freedom Bowl in Anaheim.