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Tom Kirkland ReportingTorino, Italy, the host city of the 2006 Winter Olympics welcomes the world. The teams have arrived, as has our Olympic crew.
Some 10-thousand media members have converged on Torino to cover the 25-hundred or so athletes getting ready to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Among those competing, the U.S. men's bobsled team, which they regard as America's best ever.
Like the rest of Team USA, the bobsleigh team enjoyed a huge haul of hardware in Salt Lake City in 2002, winning four of the record 34 medals. This time around, the USA men's bobsleigh team's even more talented, and didn't mind telling the world at today's first press conference.
Pavle Jovanovic is on Todd Hays' USA I sled. But two native Utahns are key players on the USA II sled. Ogden's Billy Shiffenhauer is a 2002 silver medalist. Steve Holcomb grew up in Park City and now calls Oakley home. Steve's an Olympic rookie. But Billy's been there, done that, and has dreams of doing it again.
Steve, Billy and the rest of the USA bobsleigh team's in for a rare treat today. Shiffenhauer told me they're going to see the duplicate of the fabled Shroud of Turin. The real one's closed to the public until something like 2025.
The USA men's bobsleigh Olympic competition begins with the two-man event on February 18th.
