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" 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. "
Elana Meyers
Free
Young
People
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" I was always encouraged to participate in whatever sports I wanted to be in. "
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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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" I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit, and finally, we ended up in Georgia. "
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" I'm not big on protein shakes - I think they're pretty gross, actually - so I have to make sure I eat enough meat, fish, and other good protein sources. "
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" Love can overcome everything. "
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Love
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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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Me
Lake
" 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
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Me
" I love my teammates. I love my coaches. "
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I Love
Love
" 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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Honor
Country
" Bobsled is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball. "
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Best
Who
Were
" In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold. "
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Gold
Like
Lost
" 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. "
Elana Meyers
Days
Day
Racing
" 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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Run
Life
" I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats. "
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Am
Defeat
I Am
" 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. "
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Girl
She
Winter
" I don't put limits on anybody. "
Elana Meyers
Anybody
Limits
Put
" 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. "
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Washington
Team
Real
" I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. I'm not just representing myself or my country: I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me. "
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Country
Through
Myself
" 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
" I feel like sport can transcend a lot of different things. "
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Feel
Transcend
Like
" 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. "
Elana Meyers
Love
People
Opportunities
" I trash talk all the time. "
Elana Meyers
Time
Talk
Trash
" 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! "
Elana Meyers
Ride
Responsibility
Good
" Bobsledding is an expensive sport. "
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Expensive
Sport
" I love this country. I love being a citizen. I believe we are the greatest country in the world. "
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Country
I Believe
Love
" Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete. "
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Athlete
Athletes
Big
" I've got some genetic gifts. "
Elana Meyers
Got
Genetic
Gifts
" I've been on every type of nutrition plan you can think of. "
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Been
Nutrition
Plan
" Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that? "
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Down
Push
You
" Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill. "
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Slide
People