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 out Germany’s Laura Nolte. Fellow American, Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, who’s gained gold 3 times, took house 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 identify than any Black athlete in Winter Olympics historical past, in line with Staff USA.
With Monday’s gold, she’s additionally tied pace 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 be now the oldest American girl to ever win gold on the Winter Video games.
“I like going quick and I like with the ability to management this factor that ought to be uncontrolled, that ought to be uncontrollable,” she instructed CBS Information earlier than the race. “It is simply a lot enjoyable to me and if you hit the curves proper and if you’re gliding, it seems like being a superhero.”
Meyers Taylor additionally competes in two-woman bobsled.
Final 12 months, she took house bronze on the earth championships. Total, she’s earned 10 medals throughout her years competing on the earth championships.
Meyers Taylor initially had hopes of competing within the Summer season Olympics as a soccer participant, however instructed CBS Information she “had a catastrophe of a tryout.” Her mother and father, 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 be an advocate for kids 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 obligations and studying signal language.
