Two days after arriving in Beijing for the Winter Olympics, U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor, considered one of Staff USA’s finest hopes for a medal, examined constructive for COVID-19.
The three-time Olympic medalist introduced her constructive take a look at on social media Tuesday. Based on China’s Olympic COVID-19 protocols, Meyers Taylor should isolate, together with from her son Nico, who was born with Down syndrome in 2020 and continues to be nursing.
“Attending to the Olympics is rarely straightforward, and this time, as a brand new mother, it has been essentially the most difficult, but in addition, extremely rewarding, to have the ability to present that it could actually nonetheless be completed,” Meyers Taylor wrote on Instagram.
“So many individuals, particularly different mothers from all walks of life, have been so supportive of my efforts to get again to the Olympics. It’s been an unbelievable wave of positivity that I’ve been driving [for] some time so I’m going to proceed to try this. That is simply the newest impediment that my household and I’ve confronted on this journey, so I’m remaining optimistic that I’ll be capable to recuperate rapidly and nonetheless have the chance to compete.”
The Winter Olympics start Friday with the opening ceremony, however bobsled competitors doesn’t start till Feb. 13.
Meyers Taylor made her fourth Olympic workforce and is anticipated to compete with fellow American Kaillie Humphries for the gold medal in girls’s monobob, which is making its Olympic debut this 12 months. Meyers Taylor, 37, received the 17-event World Cup sequence this season with 1,110 factors, narrowly edging out Humphries’ 1,052. The teammates positioned first and second within the remaining race of the season with Humphries, a two-time Olympic gold medalist with Canada, ending 0.04 seconds forward of Meyers Taylor.
Meyers Taylor received silver medals because the pilot in two-woman bobsled within the Sochi and Pyeongchang Olympics and received a bronze with pilot Erin Pac in Vancouver.
— by way of www.latimes.com
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