The British four-man bobsleigh team in action at the Winter Olympics at Chamonix, February 1924. The team, Ralph Broome, Thomas Arnold, Alexander Richardson and Rodney Soher, took silver in the event. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pilot Oskars Melbardis, Daumants Dreiskens, Arvis Vilkaste and Janis Strenga of Latvia team 1 compete a run during the Men's Four-Man Bobsleigh

Pilot Oskars Melbardis, Daumants Dreiskens, Arvis Vilkaste and Janis Strenga of Latvia team 1 make a run during the Men's Four-Man Bobsleigh

Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis (gold) of Germany compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Yunjong Won, Junglin Jun, Seo Youngwoo and Donghyun Kim (silver) of Republic of Korea compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Yunjong Won, Junglin Jun, Seo Youngwoo and Donghyun Kim (silver) of Republic of Korea compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Nico Walther, Kevin Kuske, Alexander Roediger and Eric Franke (silver) of Germany compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis (gold) of Germany compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis (gold) of Germany compete during the 4-man Bobsleigh on day 16 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, Republic of Korea.

The “USA I” four-man bobsleigh team received a trophy from Germany’s Werner Zahn after their victory in the event. Edward Eagan (in the foreground, third from the left) had just accomplished an exceptional double: he had already become Olympic heavyweight boxing champion at the Antwerp Games in 1920, and, in Lake Placid, became the first athlete to win a gold medal in both the Summer and the Winter Games ©IOC