Moses Apparently Ends U.S. Bobsled Team Bid

Two-time Olympic hurdle champion Edwin Moses has apparently given up on his attempt to win a spot on the U.S. Bobsled Team.

Moses skipped U.S. Olympic bobsled push trials without an explanation to officials or teammates. He reportedly has left Lake Placid, N.Y., and will miss a last-chance trial today.

“Edwin has not gotten in touch with us,” Jim Hickey, director of the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, said Saturday. Hickey said he didn’t know why Moses left.

“Maybe he has some personal problems we don’t know about,” Hickey told the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times.

Moses, Raider receiver Willie Gault and San Diego Charger tight end Greg Harrell were edged for Olympic berths in the three-man push event Monday, losing by one-thousandth of a second. Competitors push sleds down a track in a concrete slope that simulates the start of a bobsled run.

Minnesota Viking running back Herschel Walker, who earned an Olympic berth in the brakeman competition and whose attitude was praised by other bobsledders, said he was unhappy about the feud and Moses’ departure.

“I’m disappointed. I’m upset,” Walker said. “It’s a shame that when the U.S. team is supposed to be going for a gold medal, you have this animosity among the team itself.”