"It was a couple of weeks before Christmas. Elana Meyers Taylor was in Norway, prepping for a World Cup bobsled weekend. Things were going horribly. Her body was hurting, she wondered if she was doing right by her two deaf children, and the racing results were, well, bad. So, she texted her husband. The message: I'm done. This is just impossible, the U.S. bobsledding great wrote. It's never going to work."
"Funny how an Olympic gold medal changes things. Barely two months after nearly quitting her husband, former bobsledder Nic Taylor, flew to Norway after those texts to talk her out of it Meyers Taylor won the women's monobob gold medal at the Milan Cortina Games. And she was back on the ice Tuesday, prepping with Jadin O'Brien for the two-woman race that starts Friday."
Elana Meyers Taylor nearly quit bobsledding during a difficult World Cup weekend in Norway, citing physical pain, concerns about raising her two deaf children, and poor results. She texted her husband saying she was done and it would never work. Former bobsledder Nic Taylor flew to Norway two months later and persuaded her to continue. Meyers Taylor won the women's monobob gold at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and returned to training for the two-woman event with Jadin O'Brien. She described being sleep-deprived but celebrated her Olympic gold as a welcome change and a good problem to have.
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