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" Bobsled is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball. "
Elana Meyers
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" My dad was a Marine, my aunt is still in the Navy, and my grandfathers both served. So, it's a huge honor for me to represent my country in any way I can. "
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" We train six days a week, and each day includes some type of running or strength workout. It's all about getting functionally stronger in the positions that matter for racing, which means balancing the strength between my quads and hamstrings. "
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Day
Racing
" I don't like cold weather. "
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Cold Weather
Cold
Weather
" 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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Me
Lake
" After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over. "
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Thought
Know
Giving Up
" 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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Because
Where
Sure
" 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
" 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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You
Pure
Feeling
" I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that! "
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Mistakes
Myself
Me
" I got a letter from a mom, and she was telling me about how her daughter is a tomboy and the trouble she has in classes and being around boys. She herself had the same kinds of problems growing up and how inspired they were by me. That was such an incredible email to receive. "
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Mom
Problems
Me
" You could have the best run of your life and lose a race because somebody has a better day. Or you could have the worst run and win. "
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Win
Run
Life
" I've always been the type willing to try a lot of different things. "
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Willing
Try
Things
" If you've seen 'Cool Runnings,' it looks pretty easy. You're just riding in a sled, right? Not exactly. Bobsled actually involves a series of complex movements that aren't like those in any other sport. You put your body into a really awkward position to push a 400-pound sled downhill on ice. "
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Easy
Push
You
" There's times when I'll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I'll just laugh. 'What the heck am I doing right now? I'm sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.' "
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Weather
Laugh
Doing
" 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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Watches
Dog
Cool
" In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold. "
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Gold
Like
Lost
" I love driving the sled more than anything. "
Elana Meyers
More
Than
Love
" I know how much my mom has impacted my journey and how much I wouldn't be where I am without my mom. As much as she says she's proud of me, I'm even more so proud of her because of what she's done and how she's been able to raise me and my sisters. "
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Proud
Mom
Me
" Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three. "
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Things
Three
Win
" Being southern and doing bobsled was difficult from the standpoint that I had no idea how to handle the cold and how to dress in the cold, let alone warm up and compete in the cold - so it was a definite shock. I didn't even own a coat when I first started bobsledding! "
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Doing
Alone
Dress
" We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that. "
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Obscurity
Used
Started
" Being a minority athlete in this sport, it's been wrought with challenges, but I wouldn't consider myself a trail blazer. "
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Been
Trail
Athlete
" The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men's teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I'm pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don't even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time. "
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Beautiful
Time
People
" I love this sport, and I want people to have the opportunities that I have. I want the kid in the inner city to know that she can be a bobsledder one day, and I want the kid in the middle of Africa to know that she can be a bobsledder one day. So the more that we can go out there and grow the sport, the better. "
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Love
People
Opportunities
" The biggest thing for me is keeping my hair moisturized. My go-tos are the Pantene Gold Series Hydrating Butter Cream and Intense Hydrating Oil. "
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Me
Hair
Gold
" When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero. "
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Right
Wrong
Superhero
" Anything worth having is worth working for. "
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Having
Worth
Working
" I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it. "
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Growing Up
You
Sports
" 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 train with track athletes, which is weird for bobsledders. I love training with track athletes because they help me work on my speed, and they give me something to cheer for during the Summer Olympics. "
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