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That is unfortunate. Hope she remains asymptomatic and all we talk about is the Olympics opportunity.
The good news is that she has already been to the Olympics three times before and won 3 medals.
Hope this works out for her because she's done a lot athletically and familywise to make this happen.
Elana is a great representative of GW.
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The great Olympian has been cleared to compete with 2 negative tests.
#1 in the world and a strong contender for 2 Gold Medals
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After COVID robbed her of the chance to be the University´s second flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony (Hong Kong´s flag bearer is a student), Elana has been released in to the Olympic Village and has made four monobob training runs. Her times are middle of the pack, but that means very little and the times only determine the starting grid. Her competition begins Sunday evening, probably about the time the Halftime Show at the Super Bowl ends.
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I am such a boob I got the times wrong. Elana´s first two monobob runs were this evening, Had a so-so second run and is in fourth 1.32 seconds behind first place heading in to the final two heats, which will be Sunday evening in the US.
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After three runs, Meyers has basically wrapped up a medal, but gold may be beyond reach. She is 1.73 seconds out of first but 0.32 seconds ahead of 4th. Silver is a possibility. Last run (NBC hopes) should be just after the football game ends...
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Meyers had a very good day, moved up a couple of places, had her fastest run on her last run and wins silver as part of a USA 1-2 finish. (Canadian turncoat Humphries took gold). The four runs (plus the practice runs) will serve a big aid as she gets ready to be the driver for the two-person and four-person bobselds competitions coming this week.
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DC Native wrote:
As if we needed another reason to be proud of Elana, this article, specifically what she says in speaking out against a racist bobsled manufacturer, provides just that.
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lots to be proud of here, except racist coaches. She also had a racist softball coach to go with the bobsled manufacturer .
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Agree with everything said about Elana. Only thing I would add is that she should really out the bobsled manufacturer who said what was quoted in the article.
Also, the racist softball coach must have been an idiot besides a racist ...
Ernie Banks
Ozzie Smith
Maury Wills
Barry Larkin
Among others all would have played the shortstop position before Elana was in high school..
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Not a bad first run (of four) for Meyers in the 2-person bob leaving her in third 0.22 seconds behind first place. Another medal may very be in the cards. Second run at about 8:45 am Eastern. Third and fourth runs are tomorrow morning.
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Elana’s success of today really brings back memories of watching her play on those fledgling GW softball teams brought to life and miraculously navigated through those painful early years by Associate AD MaryJo Warner. Without knowing more than rumblings about what was going on with the team and serious parental concerns, it was still shocking when the team shut down play after only a handful of games in their 2nd season. MaryJo stuck by the program and kept it going and a full 3rd and subsequent seasons ensued. Testament to both Elana and MaryJo’s commitment to the school and the program. Just to add to the lore of Elana, she was the winning pitcher in the program’s first ever win in their inaugural 3-36 season, a 6-0 victory over Coppin State. Meyers line from the circle: 7 IP, 1 H, 3 BB, 14 K. The Mother and first Queen of GW softball, both members of the GW Athletic Hall of Fame.
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At the halfway point, Meyers is comfortably in third, 0.74 seconds behind the German I sled in first and not far off second place Germany II. A medal is likely as Canada I is 0.38 seconds off the pace in 4th. The second run was not as fast as the first, and in the monobob she improved her times on the second day.
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GWAA, was this a misprint, or is Elana teamed with a Canadian bobsledder, and the woman who won the gold in the monobob, who was formerly Canadian but is today sledding as an American, also teamed with a Canadian bobsledder? If true, I can't recall ever seeing this. If Elana's team medals, does the US and Canada each receive 1/2 medal in the official medal count (I understand each would receive the actual medal.)?
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Appologies for any confusion. Meyers races for the USA. Humphries (who took gold in the monobob) used to race for Canada but got her US citizenship in less time than a family member of Melania Trump and now races for the USA; her sled did not have a great two runs and sits 5th, well out of medal spots. About the only sled that might dislodge a sled from a medal spot is Canada I (de Bruin is the driver) but that sled is 0.36 seconds behind Meyers, which is quite a bit because Meyers is closer to silver than de Bruin is to bronze.
Meyers´ sled will be the third out of the blocks tomorrow morning (at about 7:05 am Eastern) and hopefully the last to go in the final round, which starts at 8:30 am Eastern.
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A good third run (combined with so-so third runs by Canada I and USA II) pretty much wrapped up a medal for Meyers. She is 1.17 seconds behind gold medal leader Germany I and 0.41 seconds behind second place Germany II but 0.72 seconds ahead of fourth place Canada I. Hers will be the third to last sled to go in the final round, figure her run will be at about 9:10 am Eastern.
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Meyers runs a clean final run and wins yet another Olympic medal, this one bronze, as she cements her place as America´s all-time greatest bobsledder and perhaps greatest winter Olympian ever. Germany takes gold and silver.
Her Olympic career ends tomorrow in the Closing Ceremony when she will be the USA flag bearer.
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Congrats to Elana.
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Meyers runs a clean final run and wins yet another Olympic medal, this one bronze, as she cements her place as America´s all-time greatest bobsledder and perhaps greatest winter Olympian ever. Germany takes gold and silver.
Her Olympic career ends tomorrow in the Closing Ceremony when she will be the USA flag bearer.
Great achievement for Elana.
However ...
Greatest GW Olympian - yes, not even close. Greatest US Winter Olympian, no, and not even close. Apolo Ohno - male, Bonnie Blair - female.
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