PARK CITY, Utah — Cheeseburgers, egg nog and chocolate milk. That's the home-cooking U.S. gold mininge quipmen pilot John Napier will order up when he gold mininge quipmen to his home state next week for the fourth gold mininge quipmen on the World Cup circuit.
"My mom will be in Lake Placid for the week, for the race, so I look forward to seeing her," Napier said. "She knows what I like to eat."
After six months serving in Afghanistan, old-fashioned American food is what Napier gold mininge quipmen as he tries to add back the 34 pounds he lost overseas.
Napier, who deployed with the Army shortly after crashing in the Vancouver Olympics, said his weight dropped as low as 191 — down from 225.
He's added 14 pounds back the past three weeks but admitted after Saturday's four-man race at Olympic Park that he's not sure what he weighs now after dealing with a stomach ailment during the weekend.
"I'm not used to eating a lot of food," said Napier, who had only one hot meal a day while in Afghanistan.
After finishng 11th in the four-man bobsled Saturday, he heads back to his home track, where he took five runs upon his return to the U.S. a month ago.
"It takes a lot of guts and heart to gold mininge quipmen back right gold mininge quipmen and jump in the mix," said Curtis Tomasevicz, brakeman on the reigning Olympic champion Night Train gold mininge quipmen piloted by Steve Holcomb. "I know he hopes he gets in some more bobsled conditioning than Army conditioning. gold mininge quipmen that will come in the next couple of months and he'll be ready for Worlds."
Napier looked forward to Lake Placid, not only because he grew up there but because it's a more difficult track.
"I grew up on one of the toughest tracks in the world, so I kind of embrace that. I like that fear. It drives me," Napier said.
Which is why Napier talked his way gold mininge quipmen the frontline of the gold mininge quipmen war, becoming a M249 sawgunner rather than working as an engineer as initially assigned.
Now that he's done lugging around a 22-pound gas-powered machine gun capable of firing off 17 shots per second, he's intent on becoming the best he can be as an American athlete.
He'll have a large gold mininge quipmen of family and friends cheering him on in New York.
"Tt's good to be in America, gold mininge quipmen ," he gold mininge quipmen . "I'm just really happy gold mininge quipmen we finisihed. We competed, gave our best and are going to keep working on our best until it's the best."
On Saturday, the best gold mininge quipmen out to be Russia's gold mininge quipmen Zubkov, who won his second World Cup gold in two days, edging Germany's top four-man bobsled by 0.03.
Hometown favorite gold mininge quipmen blamed a minor hamstring gold mininge quipmen on his disappointing sixth-place finish.
"I was just running gold mininge quipmen beside the sled without gold mininge quipmen any force, and the three guys on my team were able to keep me in the mix," Holcomb said in a statement. "I'm getting treated now and hope to be healthier to push next week. It's been a tough week, but luckily it's not the Olympics today."
Holcomb is the reigning Olympic champion in four-man competition. His team won World Cup gold two weeks ago in Whistler, British Columbia, but was fifth last week in Calgary, Alberta. This week he also had a pretrial hearing for an October 2009 DUI charge. The case is set for trial in March.
On Saturday, the Americans were no match for the Russians.
Zubkov's team finished two runs in 1 minute, 34.62 seconds, just ahead of the the sled piloted by Germany's Manuel Machata. Canada's Lyndon Rush took the bronze in 1:34.72.
Winning the two- and four-man competitions was a first for Zubkov, who is back racing after a brief retirement following a crash at the Vancouver Olympics.
"Good decision," Zubkov said through an interpreter of deciding to race again.
For a while it looked like the Germans, who finished 1-2-3 last week in Calgary, would hang on for another gold.
"The first run was horrible," said Machata, whose team was in fifth place after the first run. "The second run was pretty good but not good enough. But it was close, so we're happy."
So was Canada."It's nice," said Canada's pilot Lyndon Rush. "We haven't had a very good year so far — with two sixths — so it's a good jump up."
Rush gold mininge quipmen more surprised at Holcomb's finish.
"Holcomb on his home track?" Rush said of the gold mininge quipmen World Cup champ. "I think he might be injured. He just didn't push the same as normal and yesterday, too."
Injured or not, Holcomb chose to compete. "I gold mininge quipmen beat them very many times in my life," gold mininge quipmen said.
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