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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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" 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. "

Elana Meyers

Support

Sports

Proud

" 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! "

" Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would. "

Elana Meyers

Friends

Transition

" Anything worth having is worth working for. "

" I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats. "

Elana Meyers

Defeat

I Am

" In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold. "

Elana Meyers

Gold

Lost

" I'll do whatever I need to do to bring more athletes to the sport. "

Elana Meyers

Whatever

Bring

" 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. "

Elana Meyers

Parents

Lake

" Even though concussions affect women more often than men, there's not a lot of concussion research about women specifically. You can slip and fall and hit your head and have a concussion. And unless you know what to do, and unless you're able to take the right steps, you may not be able to recover. "

" Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill. "

" I love driving the sled more than anything. "

Elana Meyers

Than

Love

" I've been on every type of nutrition plan you can think of. "

" Love can overcome everything. "

" I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it. "

" I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman. "

" 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. "

" It's important that the Olympics are motivating to young people and inspiring to all, and the only way to do that is to ensure clean performances, free of cheating. "

" I played softball at George Washington University, and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts with the U.S. Olympic Team, but I don't know if I have a word to describe how bad one of the tryouts was. It was the worst tryout in the history of tryouts. It was that bad. "

" 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. "

Elana Meyers

Love

God

" 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. "

Elana Meyers

Hair

Gold

" I converted from softball. We've got volleyball, we've got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled. "

" 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. "

" I went to college, George Washington University, and played softball there. I also played professionally but with the real goal of being an Olympian and making the Olympic team. "

" 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. "

Elana Meyers

Proud

Mom

" 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. "

Elana Meyers

Think

Play

" Our sport is one of the few on the winter side that is so diverse. It shows we don't have to be limited by race or gender or whatever and how far we have come as a sport. "

" I don't like cold weather. "

" My father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE. "

" 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. "

" I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool. "