America’ most adorned bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor mentioned she hopes to return to competitors subsequent yr after a stunning Beijing Video games that many thought could be her swansong.
Meyers Taylor, who turned 38 on Monday, produced one of the vital spectacular feats of the 2022 Video games together with her fourth and fifth medals - silver in monobob and bronze in two-woman - after overcoming COVID-19, which she examined constructive for on arrival.
It was the newest problem she needed to overcome in a 15-year profession, together with a crash on the 2019 world championships. However the lion-hearted Meyers Taylor, who's taking break day as she is pregnant together with her second baby, is prepared for extra subsequent yr.
“I'll return to competing afterwards,” Meyers Taylor instructed Reuters. “I nonetheless love competing. I nonetheless love bobsledding. And I nonetheless need to do it till my legs fall off however, finish of the day, I’ve acquired to contemplate what’s greatest for my youngsters ... whether or not or not that's nonetheless travelling round Europe.”
A fierce advocate of racial justice, incapacity inclusion and ladies in sport, Meyers Taylor is amassing the Girls’s Sports activities Basis’s Wilma Rudolph Braveness Award this week on the nonprofit organisation’s annual gala, months after she carried the Stars and Stripes on the Beijing closing ceremony.
“I don’t even know if I’ve even begun to replicate on my athletic profession and my advocacy,” she mentioned. “I simply attempt to do no matter I can to make the world a greater place.”
Meyers Taylor was elected to the USA Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) board of administrators in August, the place she hopes to advocate not just for gender equality in sport but in addition to get Paralympians equal illustration.
Requested if she would tackle a job in the USA’ bid to carry the Winter Video games to Salt Lake Metropolis in 2030, Meyers Taylor chuckled and mentioned: “The issue is in 2030, I believe I may nonetheless most likely be aggressive.”
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