Steven Holcomb (1980–2017)

Steven Holcomb was born in Park City, Utah on April 14, 1980. He started competing for the United States in bobsledding in 1998, but did not qualify for an Olympic team until 2006 at the Turin Games. His rise in the bobsled world coincided with the start of his sight problems, attributed to mostra'n més keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease. Lasik surgery made his vision worse and the contact lenses that corrected his vision stopped working in 2007. After learning this, he battled depression and attempted suicide. Later in the year, he had a relatively new procedure that placed contacts permanently behind his irises to improve his sight. In 2010, he piloted a four-man bobsled team to the United States' first gold medal in the event in 62 years. He also won five world titles and was a six-time overall World Cup champion and a 60-time World Cup medalist. He wrote an autobiography entitled But Now I See: My Journey from Blindness to Olympic Gold. He was found dead in a dormitory at the Olympic Training Center on May 6, 2017 at the age of 37. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys