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Eagle Scouts Holcomb and Fogt bringing home the bronze in four-man bobsled

February 23, 2014 1

Update, 2019: The International Olympic Committee has upgraded Holcomb and Fogt’s bronze medals to silver after removing the gold medal from the Russian team. As teenagers, they received red, white and blue Eagle Scout medals.

Olympics/Paralympics

Half of Team USA’s ‘Night Train’ bobsled team are Eagle Scouts

February 14, 2014 2

Feb. 23: Full results below Team USA’s bobsledders must be born with a superhuman drive to reach their goals. How else can you explain the fact that 50 percent of USA-1, the four-man Olympic bobsled team

Olympics/Paralympics

U.S. Olympian is great-great-grandson of BSA’s first Chief Scout Executive

February 7, 2014 7

Updated for 2018 The speedy sport of luge has been in Tucker West’s blood since age 6 when his dad built a track in the backyard for Tucker and his fellow Cub Scouts to race on. Scouting’s

Eagle Scout

Eagle Scout Olympian reveals how he balanced swimming and Scouting

August 2, 2012 5

By the time Eric Shanteau first put on a Cub Scout uniform, he had already been swimming for five years. As he got older, Shanteau, who learned to swim at age 3, found a way

Eagle Scout

How Scouting helped this Team USA water polo goalie in his quest for gold

August 1, 2012 3

Merrill Moses equates the silver medal he won at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to earning the rank of Life in Boy Scouts. Both are great achievements, but each is still a step away from

Eagle Scout

Twins Grant and Ross James are Eagle Scouts and Olympians

July 31, 2012 11

UPDATE (8:10 a.m., Aug. 1): Grant and Ross raced for Team USA this morning. See the results (spoiler!) or watch the video (start at 2:57:18). You’d expect twins to have a lot in common. But you’d

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