Israeli bobsled captain opens up on team overcoming burglary and vandalism to make history in Winter Olympics

AJ Edelman spoke to Fox News Digital about his Israeli bobsled teammates suffering a burglary and vandalism at their hotel just days before competing in the Winter Olympics.

AJ Edelman didn't believe the news when he heard it. 

The first ever Israeli bobsled team to make the Olympics, that he captains, was the victim of burglary and vandalism just days before they were set to compete. Edelman, who was in Venice, Italy, at the time, found out in a text from his teammates, who were at the hotel in Prague. 

"It was messages that I didn't understand, it's something that I couldn't conceive of. They were like, ‘hey the place is turned over. Someone showered and stole our stuff,’ and I was like, ‘What that doesn’t make sense.' I thought it was a joke at first," Edelman told Fox News Digital. 

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"We got fingerprinted and everything, they went through the whole process of a serious break-in."

Once the situation settled in, it was something they realized they were prepared to handle and overcome. It was the type of thing they were used to. 

"It was just another Tuesday for us," Edelman said. 

"One of the things that we've all come together and realized is we just move forward. Every single step of the journey is another step toward the goal. And we haven't reached the goal yet. The goal is never qualification, the goal is to compete at the Olympic Games … 

"It was a gross violation, you feel very violated in your space, but I just told them ‘hey guys, this is just who we are, we just got to move on. Whether it was targeted, not targeted, I think it was targeted, but no matter what, we're moving on." 

The team clinched the nation's first ever bobsled winter Olympic spot after