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U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor is considering retiring after 15 years within the sport.

She has raced on not less than 15 totally different bobsled tracks in 11 nations. She’s had no fewer than 41 totally different teammates in her sleds.

She possesses extra Olympic medals than any bobsledder in U.S. historical past, with an opportunity at another this weekend. She has turn out to be an advocate, preventing for equality for girls in sports activities. And she or he grew to become a spouse and mom alongside the best way.

Meyers Taylor hasn’t mentioned for certain what her plans are, however she is considering retirement and hinted that the women’s race on the Beijing Olympics — it begins Friday and ends Saturday — might symbolize her remaining official time in a sled.

“There’s a superb probability that it’s my final one,” Meyers Taylor mentioned.

Mikaela Shiffrin was quickest in a downhill coaching session forward of Thursday’s Alpine mixed race on the Beijing Olympics.

The American skier completed 0.93 seconds forward of Wendy Holdener of Switzerland and 0.94 forward of Ester Ledecka, who’s trying to win a second occasion at a second straight Olympics after efficiently defending her gold in snowboarding’s parallel big slalom.

Shiffrin was second within the mixed on the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and received the occasion on the world championships final yr.

Defending Olympic champion Michelle Gisin was a second slower than Shiffrin.

The 26-year-old Shiffrin remains to be looking for her first medal on the Beijing Video games. The 2-time Olympic champion didn’t end the large slalom or the slalom, was ninth within the super-G and 18th in Tuesday’s downhill.

Solely 14 skiers skilled on Wednesday, with 12 of these listed on the beginning listing opting out.

Canada beat the US 7-6 within the Olympic ladies’s curling tournament and moved forward of the Americans within the race for the four-team playoff.

Jennifer Jones’ Canadian foursome (4-3) took the lead with back-to-back two-point ends within the second and third. The People tied it with two within the eighth and a steal of 1 within the ninth when Jones missed a takeout with the final stone and slammed her broom to the ice in frustration.

Canada retained the last-rock benefit within the tenth and remaining finish, although, and delivered a straightforward draw to win it.

The People (4-4) may nonetheless qualify for the semifinals with 5 wins, in the event that they beat Japan on Wednesday evening and get some assist.

Johannes Strolz of Austria is main the primary run of the lads’s slalom with solely lower-ranked skiers remaining as he bids for a second gold medal on the Beijing Video games.

Strolz will take a 0.02 second benefit over Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway into the second run. World champion Sebastian Foss-Solevaag of Norway is third, 0.06 behind.

The 29-year-old Strolz received the Alpine mixed on Thursday in his first ever Olympic race. Earlier than a win in Adelboden, Switzerland, final month, he had a career-best end of tenth in additional than eight years of World Cup racing and was dropped from the powerhouse Austrian staff on the finish of final season.

There have been six totally different winners in six World Cup slaloms this season.

Lucas Braathen leads the self-discipline standings however he straddled a gate and is out of the race. One other pre-race favourite, Manuel Feller, did the identical.

Freestyler skier Alex Corridor led a 1-2 American finish within the males’s Olympic slopestyle competitors with a trick on his first run the place he utterly stopped his rotation mid-air and went the opposite path.

Corridor’s opening run earned a rating of 90.01 and it stood up all through the competitors. His teammate Nick Goepper turned in a inventive run on his second go to earn silver. Jesper Tjader of Sweden took residence bronze.

The People have now earned six of 9 Olympic medals because the occasion made its debut in 2014. Goepper has three of them, together with silver from the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games and bronze from the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

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