Skeleton slider Katie Uhlaender will compete in only one event at the PyeongChang Olympics next month, but she could wind up with two medals.
Uhlaender, a Vail native and Breckenridge product who was named to her fourth Olympic team on Monday, finished fourth at the Sochi Olympics only 0.04 of a second behind bronze medalist Elena Nikitina of Russia. In November the International Olympic Committee stripped Nikitina of her medal after she received a doping sanction that followed an investigation into Russia’s state-sponsored doping. The IOC may decide to award Uhlaender the bronze.
Uhlaender, 33, is the daughter of former Major League outfielder Ted Uhlaender. She is a three-time individual world champion, including gold in 2012.
Also named to the women’s skeleton team on Monday was University of Colorado graduate Kendall Wesenberg, 27, who lives in Modesto, Calif. According to a , Wesenberg became interested in the sport while watching the 2010 Olympics when she was a student at CU majoring in business administration and pursued it after graduating.
