Steven Holcomb remains a winner of three Olympic medals. He will have held only one of them.
Another round of International Olympic Committee sanctions against Russian athletes who were found to have participated in doping at the 2014 Sochi Games came down Friday, headlined by bobsledder Aleksandr Zubkov being stripped of the gold medals he won in two- and four-man events.
Holcomb, who died in May, will posthumously move up one spot from bronze to silver in each of those races, once the medals are formally reallocated.
“It’s going to be weird for his family and it’s going to be weird for us,” U.