This late 1960s/early 1970s U.S. Navy promotional film focuses on the Navy’s two man and four man bobsled teams at the North American Festival at Lake Placid, New York. The bobsled team included six men in this era including Lt. Paul Lamey, Bob Huscher, Dennis Sprenkle, Bill Renton and Bill Coulson. The Navy’s tradition in bobsleigh appears to have been short-lived as a Google search doesn’t reveal any modern teams. A follow-up film to this one, “Blue on Ice” was released in 1974.

Paul Lamey competed in bobsled at two Winter Olympics and six World Championships. During his bobsled career, he was a Navy lieutenant. He later had various careers. Lamey served as an expert analyst for ABC Television during the 1980 Olympic bobsled events. But he later served in various marketing and executive positions for the Unlimited Hydroplane Racing Commission, LM Racing, and the PGA of America. Lamey eventually became a senior director of business development for Miacomet, a gaming and software technology company.

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