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Olympic bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor found herself on the podium again, this time as a silver-medalist in monobob, behind Team U.S.A. teammate Kaillie Humphries. Meyers Taylor, one of the best bobsledders in the world, medaled in as many Olympic games as she’s competed in: four. This Olympics is different for Meyers Taylor because she now has a son. She gave birth to Nico in 2020. She is just one of two mothers competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics. “Preparing for the Olympics as a mom has been quite a journey,” she told uInterview before the games. “In Beijing, they’ve made sure to take car...
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Kaillie Humphries cruised to her third career Olympic gold medal last week, and the win was especially sweet considering her personal journey over the last four years. The Canadian-born athlete competed in her fourth Olympics, but first as a member of Team USA. She requested to leave Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton in 2018 after filing a harassment complaint. Humpheries was granted dual Canadian-American citizenship back in December. uInterview interviewed her before her citizenship status came through about the waiting game and her anticipation of competing for Team USA in the Olympics for the firs...
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Team USA figure skater Alexa Knierim is ready to take on the ice in the Bejing Winter Olympic Games and she has a secret weapon. Skittles. “Last season when we were training sometimes I would have Skittles before we would do a long program, just for an extra hype,” she said. “So then it just became this thing now that every time we travel to our competitions I always bring Skittles and I shove a handful down right before we take the ice for the warmup.” Skittles aren’t the only tool at her disposal of course, as she also has hard work and dedication to thank for making it this far, and she hop...
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Zachary Donohue is competing on Team USA’s figure skating team during the Bejing Olympic Games. Before the games, Donohue took some time to think about the impact Covid had on both his sport and his relationship with his partner, Madison Hubbell. “Covid was an amazing opportunity for both of us, but I especially saw it in Maddie to step back from skating and find value in ourselves outside of the sport and in our own individuality,” he said. “As a woman, as a plant mom, as an artist, an athlete, it’s been really cool watching Maddie kinda cast off all of these stresses and labels and difficult...
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Team USA Olympic figure skater Madison Hubbell had to prepare for the Olympic Games with partner Zachary Donohue while also dealing with the challenges brought on by the pandemic. “We usually spend all of our time together and with how strict everything was here we really did a lot of virtual training,” she said. “Even between the two of us, there wasn’t really an opportunity or the reason to get together because we weren’t really supposed to be socializing outdoors.” While the pandemic closed many doors, it also managed to open a few as the pair took the time to explore interests outside of s...
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Zhu Yi, a figure skater born in California who renounced her American citizenship to compete for the People’s Republic of China in the Beijing Winter Olympics, has been facing harassment on the Chinese social media platform Weibo after falling in her Olympics debut routines. She fell twice on Sunday during the women’s short program team event, and ultimately placed last. Negative reactions against her performance came swiftly on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter. After her falls on Sunday, Zhu told the Times, “I guess I felt a lot of pressure because I know everybody in China was pretty...
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Team USA figure skater Jason Brown was one of the youngest figure skaters to ever win a medal at the Olympics when he took home the Bronze medal in 2014, and now he is prepared to skate again at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. Brown came out as gay last June, when asked if is compelled to make a statement about being an openly gay man competing in China, he said that he believes that he can make a statement by giving it his all on the ice. “I think for me our sport is such an incredible outlet of expression, and so how we express ourselves through music and our program is so important to what ...
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Team USA freestyle halfpipe competitor and two-time gold medal recipient David Wise is competing once more in the Bejing Winter Olympic Games. “I’m still in a state in my career where I’m trying to figure out what the limits are for what I can do on a pair of skis,” he said. “It’s not necessarily about comparing myself to my peers and my competitors, it’s more about what can I do with the body I was given and how far can I take this?” Wise has the chance to win his third Olympic gold medal, although he doesn’t feel any pressure to do so. “Philosophically, I don’t feel any pressure [but] when I...
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Team USA freestyle skier Jaelin Kauf will be returning for her second Olympic Games in Beijing. Kauf was nervous going into her first-ever games four years ago but has had a lot of time to prepare since then. “Going into the last Olympics rank number one was a lot of pressure but I just tried to enjoy it as much as possible, it was my first Olympic experience, and just try to take in as much as possible,” she said. “That dream finally coming true, and I was able to have a lot of friends and family there at the bottom of the course supporting me, going through all that with me together which wa...
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World Champion figure skater Nathan Chen is back and ready to compete in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. After failing to medal in 2018, he’s a favorite to win gold in Beijing for Team USA. Chen started skating when he was only three years old and considers skating to be a “passion project.” Chen loves to skate but knows that he won’t be able to do so forever. That’s why he wants to make the most of the time that he has now. “Every competition is a great opportunity for me to show the work I’ve been putting in,” he said. “As well as know that I have a limited amount of competitions in my lif...
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