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Elana Meyers Taylor: Competing in Beijing ‘says more than any boycott could’

by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor wrote that the best way she can send a message about the Olympic host nation, amid calls for various forms of boycotts, is to compete at the Beijing Games. “I understand the concerns about human rights and free expression in China,”...

Kaillie Humphries, Elana Meyers Taylor go 1-2 in monobob, enter Olympics as favorites

by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW

American Kaillie Humphries got a win. Elana Meyers Taylor got an overall title. And the U.S. bobsled team got more momentum to take into the Beijing Olympics. Humphries prevailed in the final women’s monobob race of the season on Saturday, with Meyers Taylor finishing...

American Elana Meyers Taylor earns women’s monobob World Cup title

by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. got her fourth women’s monobob victory of the season on Saturday, the 25th overall win of her career in major international competition. Australia’s Breanna Walker was second, and Germany’s Laura Nolte was third....

Elana Meyers Taylor gets first two-woman bobsled win in three years

by admin | Jan 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Triple Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor earned her first two-woman World Cup bobsled victory since February 2019, winning in Sigulda, Latvia, on Sunday. Meyers Taylor and brakewoman Lake Kwaza prevailed by .22 of a second over Brits Mica McNeill and Adele Nicoll....

Two days after gaining U.S. citizenship, Kaillie Humphries wins bobsled World Cup

by admin | Dec 6, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Kaillie Humphries won the women’s monobob at the World Cup stop Altenberg, Germany, on Saturday – just two days after becoming a U.S. citizen. It was a whirlwind week for Humphries. After competing in the qualifying runs in Altenberg on Tuesday, she flew to Los...

Ex-Canadian bobsled star Kaillie Humphries sworn in as American citizen, clearing her to compete for U.S. in Beijing

by admin | Dec 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Kaillie Humphries is now, officially, an American. And just like that, the U.S. medal hopes in bobsledding at the Beijing Olympics just got much stronger. The reigning world champion in both monobob and women’s bobsledding was sworn in as a citizen in San Diego...

Kaillie Humphries left Canada to escape alleged abuse. It might cost her an Olympics.

by admin | Oct 18, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Kaillie Humphries, the world’s most successful female bobsled driver, lives an American life with her American husband in an American townhouse on an American cul-de-sac about a mile from the first American Legoland. A Team USA flag flutters beside her front door. She...
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