Olympic bobsledder to retire; pursues spec ops - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times

United States bobsledder John Napier is leaving the sport and will try to become a member of an elite military unit.

"After Afghanistan, I had a lot of rational and irrational ideas about sport," Napier said, according to the Times Union. "I never got the taste of selflessness that I did in Afghanistan. There is not a morning that I don't wake up and miss it."
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