San Marino national bobsleigh team

The San Marino national bobsleigh team was founded by four construction entrepreneurs residing in Rochester Hills, Michigan[1] with dual citizenship of San Marino and USA: Jean Pierre Renzi, Mike Crocenzi, and brothers Marcello and Dino Crescentini.[2] The four members of the San Marino team, three of whom were already over 40 years old at the time, started bobsleighing in 1991.In January 1994 they managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Lillehammer,[1] in an unusual way: during the trials in Lake Placid, they had to rent a bobsleigh after leaving theirs in Europe.[3] After three days of slow runs, they discovered three loose bolts on one of the skates,[3] and during one trial the San Marino team's bobsled suffered a serious accident, so much so that the track judges thought Dino Crescentini had died, as his helmet had been ripped off and was in the middle of the track.[2] When the sled was repaired, they finished third in one race and fourth in another, thus earning enough points for a place in the Olympics.
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