The ski slopes are rough. It is amazing how these slopes carve out the expertise of the athletes. They allow for very little mistakes. Exactly when I thought the slopes were simply impossible along would come the one athlete putting in a perfect run.
This Olympics is finding a focus on women, too. It is refreshing. They are great athletes.
By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Sports Writer
...They shared a coach. (click here) They shared philosophies. They shared knowledge.
They could not share the Olympic gold medal.
It belongs to Humphries.
Canada's team of Humphries and Heather Moyse are again queens of Olympic women's bobsledding, rallying past the U.S. duo of Meyers and Lauryn Williams on Wednesday night to win gold at the Sochi Games.
It's the second straight Olympic title for Humphries and Moyse, and it wasn't decided until the final moment of the competition — then only by a tenth of a second.
"We knew it was going to be this way," Humphries said after becoming the first women's bobsledder to drive to back-to-back Olympic golds....
In winning a silver in the Bobsled, Lauryn Williams was the seventh American to win medals in both Summer and Winter Olympics. Lauryn missed being the first athlete to win Gold in both summer and winter olympics by 0.23 seconds. It was heartbreaking, but, she took it in stride as any great athlete does. Perhaps she many try again.
8:09 PM, February 19, 2014
KRASNAYA POLYANA, RUSSIA — As the last few teams (click here) competed in the bobsled on Wednesday — and former Detroiter Lauryn Williams tried to make Olympic history by becoming the first woman to win gold medals in the Winter and Summer Games — fireworks shot into the air....
Ted Ligety takes the Gold.
