"The 41-year-old Meyers Taylor finally has Olympic gold -- her first, and one that made her the oldest American woman to ever hear "The Star-Spangled Banner" blare in her honor at the Winter Games. Rallying in the fourth and final heat, Meyers Taylor won the women's monobob title at the Milan Cortina Games on Monday night, dropping to her knees in tears when the result became official. The winning time: 3 minutes, 57.93 seconds."
"Meyers Taylor had medaled five times before -- three silver, two bronze. She was the most decorated Black athlete ever at a Winter Olympics even before this win, and her place in history got a whole lot more dazzling on a frosty night in the Italian mountains. And this medal, her sixth, tied her with Bonnie Blair for the most by a U.S. woman in the Winter Olympics."
"Nolte led by 0.15 seconds going into the final run, with Meyers Taylor second and Humphries Armbruster third -- 0.24 seconds off the lead. Barring big mistakes, gold, silver and bronze would be theirs in some order; nobody else was within six-tenths of a second of Humphries Armbruster, nor within about a full second of Nolte's lead going into the final heat."
Elana Meyers Taylor won the women's monobob at the Milan Cortina Games with a combined time of 3 minutes, 57.93 seconds, claiming her first Olympic gold at age 41. Meyers Taylor rallied in the fourth and final heat and dropped to her knees in tears when the result was official. Germany's Laura Nolte finished second and Kaillie Humphries Armbruster of the U.S. took third. Meyers Taylor had previously earned three silver and two bronze Olympic medals, and this sixth medal tied her with Bonnie Blair for the most by a U.S. woman at the Winter Olympics.
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