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" If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for. "
Elana Meyers
Girl
She
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" I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my hand at bobsled. They'd seen it on TV at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 and thought it would be a good sport for me. "
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" Anything worth having is worth working for. "
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" I'll do whatever I need to do to bring more athletes to the sport. "
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" The Lord calls us to love everybody. "
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" A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled. "
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" People win medals in all shapes and sizes! And I can't help but say that finding a fiance who loves me unconditionally at any size has played a huge role in my body confidence. "
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" I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool. "
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" For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings.' Well, 'Cool Runnings' was, of course, four men in a bobsled, and four-man is considered the highlight of our sport. It's what everybody knows. It's what everybody watches. And it's the big dog of our sport. "
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" I've been in plenty of crashes! Some are not too bad - resulting in ice burn. Others are pretty rough, and sometimes - rarely, but sometimes - people do get seriously injured. It's a risk we all know of and accept. If you bobsled, you're going to crash - guaranteed. "
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" I love my teammates. I love my coaches. "
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" You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very few times. "
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" I'm a squat person: I love squats. I love back squats, things like that. "
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" I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats. "
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I Am
" It's a challenge, but every single German or Canadian I want to beat, I still have to love them. That means competing the way God wants me to compete and helping my opponents if they have a need. "
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God
Me
" I've got some genetic gifts. "
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" I've been on every type of nutrition plan you can think of. "
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" I've always been the type willing to try a lot of different things. "
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" I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars. "
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Lot
" For me, it's always been about continually challenging myself and continually figuring out how to go down the hill faster. "
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Always
Down
Hill
" I think the hardest thing is that all of us would love to just stick to sports - but if you want us to be role models to kids, then you need to stand for more than just sports. "
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Sports
Need
Love
" I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that. "
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You
Trying
Woman
" All sports have a zone, but ours is at 95 mph. You can feel the speed; you can feel the wind. It's the most euphoric thing I've ever done. "
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Feel
Done
You
" Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right. Just shows you how powerful beliefs are and how you have the ability to change your situation and affect what happens to you. The mind is a powerful thing. "
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Change
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" Having my dad play for the Falcons, what it did was really to expose me to a whole bunch of other elite-level athletes, which I think gives me an advantage and allowed me to understand what goes into sports. It is more than going out onto the field and going out onto the ice and competing. "
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" My mom has never cared if I did sports or not. Obviously, she's proud of me, and she loves the fact that I'm an Olympian and she's got these trinkets to hang around with the medals and whatnot. But if I wanted to do whatever, if I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer or whatever, she was going to support me regardless. "
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Support
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Proud
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Diverse
Get
" I'm E Money because I'm money when it counts. Not sure exactly where or when it started, but I was called it in softball, too. "
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Where
Sure
" In bobsled, you work as a team - a driver and a brakeman. Both athletes push, but the brakeman's biggest responsibility is to push as fast as she can and get in and ride down in a good aerodynamic position. The driver helps to push but gets in first and then steers the sled down the track. We aren't just along for the ride, despite how it looks! "
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Good