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The life of one of the most decorated Utah Olympic athletes will be celebrated on the track where he learned to drive.

USA Bobsled and Skeleton, the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation and the Holcomb family announced Tuesday that a celebration of the life of Steven Holcomb will be held at 2 p.m. June 10 at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City.

Holcomb, a three-time Olympic medalist bobsled driver, died unexpectedly at the age of 37 on May 6 in Lake Placid, N.Y. The cause of Holcomb's death remains unclear, although an autopsy performed by the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, N.Y., showed that the Park City Olympian died with fluid in his lungs, The Associated Press reported three weeks ago.

Preliminary toxicology results did not show drugs in Holcomb's system, the report added. USA Bobsled & Skeleton reported Holcomb died in his sleep.

A celebration and reception will be held at the summer pavilion at the Utah Olympic Park behind the Quinney Welcome Center. Family, friends and fellow athletes are scheduled to gather at 9 p.m. to do a walk down the Utah Olympic Park bobsled track to honor Holcomb.

Holcomb, the most decorated American bobsled driver ever, drove for the U.S. since 1998, winning five world titles and five other world championship medals. Holcomb was a six-time overall World Cup champion and a 60-time World Cup medalist. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Holcomb snapped a 62-year streak by piloting his four-man bobsled to a gold medal. It was the first U.S. four-man gold medal since 1948.

Holcomb won bronze in both the two- and four-man bobsled events four years later at the Sochi Games in Russia.

The Holcomb family has asked that in lieu of flowers donations be made in memory of Holcomb to USA Bobsled & Skeleton for athletes in need of financial support or GivingVision.org, which is a non-profit organization committed to helping patients with keratoconus. In his 2012 autobiography, Holcomb discussed how he dealt with a degenerative eye disease that nearly blinded him and forced him into retirement.

Holcomb's father, Steven, spoke about his son's life in bobsled and in Lake Placid with The Adirondack Daily Enterprise two weeks ago. Holcomb's ashes were spread on the bobsled track and finish deck at Mount Van Hoevenberg at Lake Placid.

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