American Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, in maybe her Olympic bobsled finale, discovered her technique to the medal stand for a record-tying sixth time Saturday within the two-woman bobsled, whereas Germany’s Laura Nolte received gold once more.
Nolte is now the back-to-back two-woman Olympic bobsled champion, holding off teammate Lisa Buckwitz to seize gold on the Milan Cortina Video games on Saturday evening.
Nolte — the winner of the final 4 World Cup two-woman titles — cemented her standing as the game’s present queen, teaming with Deborah Levi to win her second consecutive two-woman gold medal by ending 4 runs in 3 minutes, 48.46 seconds.
Buckwitz, with Neele Schuten in her sled, was second in 3:48.99. Humphries Armbruster and Jasmine Jones — two moms in the identical sled for the U.S. — completed third in 3:49.21. It was the sixth Olympic medal for Humphries Armbruster, tying fellow American Elana Meyers Taylor for probably the most by any lady within the sport’s historical past.
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Additionally for the U.S., Kaysha Love — who has been coping with a hamstring subject for a lot of the season and had it flare up once more in Italy — and Azaria Hill completed fifth in 3:49.71. Meyers Taylor and Jadin O’Brien, who have been doomed by a second-heat skid on the prime of the observe Friday evening, obtained a number of spots again within the standings Saturday and completed tied for seventh in 3:50.49.
Germany now has six bobsled medals in these Olympics, whereas the U.S. has three and the remainder of the world has zero. The divide may get greater on Sunday within the last sliding occasion of the Milan Cortina Video games; Germany, which already swept the two-man race, is in place to do the identical factor in four-man after Saturday’s opening two heats of that competitors.
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And Germany is now as much as 17 sliding medals, counting bobsled, skeleton and luge, at Milan Cortina — yet another than the remainder of the world. Austria has 5, the U.S. now has 4 together with Italy, Britain has two and Latvia has one.
The 2-woman race was principally for the bronze going into the ultimate run.
Nolte — who had the lead, albeit a a lot smaller one, going into the ultimate warmth of the monobob competitors that Meyers Taylor ended up successful — led Buckwitz by 0.35 seconds going into the final warmth. Buckwitz’s lead over Humphries Armbruster was 0.19 seconds, and Humphries Armbruster was solely 0.09 seconds up on Germany’s Kim Kalicki within the race for the bronze.
Kalicki’s last time: 3:49.36. It wasn’t sufficient to catch Humphries Armbruster, who hopped out of the sled and wrapped herself and Jones within the American flag, realizing the medal was theirs.
Humphries Armbruster’s up to date Olympic medal depend: three golds, three bronzes.
Meyers Taylor is 41, Humphries Armbruster is 40. Meyers Taylor is a mom of two, Humphries Armbruster has one son, and each girls are speaking about how they wish to add one other child to their households.
Which means Saturday evening might need been the final on the Olympic stage for them — and perhaps on any sliding stage.
It was the 177th race — counting World Cups, world championships, the short-lived monobob World Collection and the Olympics — for Meyers Taylor on the main worldwide degree. She has 78 medals from these races, six of them coming within the Olympics, and was a winner both as a driver or pusher in three completely different many years.
And for Humphries Armbruster, who received three Olympic medals for Canada and now has three extra for the U.S., the numbers are much more gaudy: 105 medals in 218 main worldwide races, with 49 of them victories.
If that is the tip, for both or for each of them, what a journey it was.
