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.

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.

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...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/14/elana-meyers-taylor-bobsled-olympics/

lots to be proud of here, except racist coaches.  She also had a racist softball coach to go with the bobsled manufacturer .  

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.

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.

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.
 

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.

GW Alum Abroad wrote:

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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