After Medals, Humphries, Meyers Taylor Back On Olympic Ice
Feb 15, 2022, 10:29 AM
Gold medallist Kaillie Humphries of Team United States (R) and Silver medallist Elana Meyers Taylor of Team United States (L) celebrate during the Women's Monobob Bobsleigh Heat 4 on day 10 of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Sliding Centre on February 14, 2022 in Yanqing, China. (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
(Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
BEIJING (AP) — The Olympic routine for Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor has always been the same.
They would arrive, train, compete, win a medal and go home. Such was the case in 2010. And again in 2014. And again in 2018. Not this time.
The celebration after the monobob competition was short-lived for Humphries and Meyers Taylor.
Barely 24 hours after they won their fourth Olympic medals they were back at work at the Yanqing Sliding Center.
Tuesday was the first day of official training for the traditional two-woman competition that begins Friday.
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