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" I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that! "
Elana Meyers
Mistakes
Myself
Me
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" Sport can transcend bias. "
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Transcend
Bias
" There is a stigma in our sport that men are the better drivers. People think that, because the men compete in two-man and four-man, they are more versatile and that the women aren't great drivers. "
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Women
Think
" 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. "
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Free
Young
People
" I'll do whatever I need to do to bring more athletes to the sport. "
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Whatever
More
Bring
" 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
" If I'm honest, the thing I remember the most was the team mascot, Freddie the Falcon. I really remember there was a McDonald's nearby, and I remember eating a cheeseburger in the playground when the Falcon appeared. I'm not sure my dad appreciates that being my favorite memory of him playing. "
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Eating
Team
Remember
" I've always been the type willing to try a lot of different things. "
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Willing
Try
Things
" 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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Days
Day
Racing
" Bobsled is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball. "
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Best
Who
Were
" Growing up, most girls have this image of how they want their wedding to be and things like that. I had none of that except for the cake I wanted, and that's what I got. The cake was the first thing we ordered. "
Elana Meyers
Cake
Growing Up
Growing
" I love my teammates. I love my coaches. "
Elana Meyers
Coaches
I Love
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. "
Elana Meyers
Me
Love
Help
" 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. "
Elana Meyers
Women
Research
Men
" Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three. "
Elana Meyers
Things
Three
Win
" 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
Me
" I've got some genetic gifts. "
Elana Meyers
Got
Genetic
Gifts
" It's hard to describe what it's like to live with a concussion. You want to enjoy things like you used to, but you can't. You wake up in the morning and wonder how you're going to feel that day: What will my reactions be like? Will I have a headache? Will I have to triple check to see if I unplugged the flat iron? "
Elana Meyers
Enjoy
Live
Day
" My dad was a football player, and I've been the same size since eighth grade, so I get how it can be hard when you don't fit in with the 'normal-size' girls, or your butt and legs are too big for normal-size jeans. "
Elana Meyers
Legs
Football
You
" I love this country. I love being a citizen. I believe we are the greatest country in the world. "
Elana Meyers
Country
I Believe
Love
" The things I've had to overcome have been crazy. "
Elana Meyers
Had
Been
Overcome
" I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats. "
Elana Meyers
Am
Defeat
I Am
" Bobsledding is an expensive sport. "
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Expensive
Sport
" I feel like sport can transcend a lot of different things. "
Elana Meyers
Feel
Transcend
Like
" 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. "
Elana Meyers
Watches
Dog
Cool
" 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. "
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Far
Race
Gender
" 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
" Traditionally, the treatment for a concussion has been to stare at a wall and wait for your brain to heal itself. Don't watch TV, don't read a book, don't look at your phone, and definitely don't train. It's a torturous protocol for an athlete. "
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Look
Book
Phone
" I was always encouraged to participate in whatever sports I wanted to be in. "
Elana Meyers
Wanted
Always
Sports
" I trash talk all the time. "
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Time
Talk
Trash
" A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled. "
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Sick
Bolt
Behind