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How did a West Texas oilman make Team USA's Olympic bobsled team?

Dave Wilson

created: Feb. 21, 2026, 2:15 p.m. | updated: Feb. 21, 2026, 7:27 p.m.

Boone Niederhofer was going to need to do everything necessary to make the 2026 U.S. Olympic bobsled team. He finished second out of hundreds in his initial tryouts and was selected for the national bobsled training program in Lake Placid. He was named to the four-man bobsled team Jan. 19. "It takes a very special person to do bobsled," Moeller said. Niederhofer, back in San Antonio, couldn't go to New York to the Olympic Training Center and its housing and food and training facilities.

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