Elana Meyers Taylor gained the Olympic gold medal for Staff USA in girls’s monobob on Monday, making her probably the most embellished U.S. feminine bobsledder on the market.
She beat Germany’s Laura Nolte. Fellow American, Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, who’s gained gold 3 times, took dwelling the bronze.
Meyers Taylor, a 41-year-old five-time Olympian, beforehand gained silver 3 times and bronze twice. She additionally has extra medals to her title than any Black athlete in Winter Olympics historical past, in keeping with Staff USA.
With Monday’s gold, she’s additionally tied velocity skater Bonnie Blair for probably the most medals by a feminine U.S. Winter Olympian. Velocity skater Apolo Anton Ohno, who earned eight medals throughout three Winter Olympics, holds the general prime spot for U.S. Winter Olympians.
Meyers Taylor can also be now the oldest American lady to ever win gold on the Winter Video games.
“I like going quick and I like having the ability to management this factor that needs to be uncontrolled, that needs to be uncontrollable,” she informed CBS Information earlier than the race. “It is simply a lot enjoyable to me and once you hit the curves proper and once you’re gliding, it looks like being a superhero.”
Meyers Taylor additionally competes in two-woman bobsled.
Final 12 months, she took dwelling bronze on the planet championships. General, she’s earned 10 medals throughout her years competing on the planet championships.
Meyers Taylor initially had hopes of competing within the Summer season Olympics as a soccer participant, however informed CBS Information she “had a catastrophe of a tryout.” Her dad and mom, who’d seen bobsledding on TV, instructed she give it a shot.
Husband Nic Taylor is a former Olympic bobsledder.
A mother of two, Meyers Taylor can also be an advocate for youngsters who’ve disabilities. Each of her sons, Nico and Noah, are deaf and Nico additionally has Down syndrome. Along with coaching for the Olympics, she’s additionally juggled regular parenting tasks and studying signal language.
In November, Meyers Taylor informed CBS Information that when all of the coaching is finished and he or she’s in race mode, “I do not take into consideration something. My thoughts goes fully clean, and I am simply totally within the second, totally current. And I believe that what retains bringing me again is there’s only a few instances in life that you could be that current.”
