So far, so good for Lauren Gibbs, Denver’s unlikely bobsledder.
Gibbs, a push athlete who thought her athletic career was long past before discovering and pursuing bobsled in 2014, and her driver Elana Meyers Taylor are sitting in second place after two of four runs on the Olympic bobsled track in PyeongChang.
The Meyers-Gibbs team won the first run and finished second in the second run. Their cumulative time is only 0.07 of a second behind the German duo of Mariama Jamanka and Lisa Buckwitz, who finished second in the first run and won the second.
“We still have room in the tank,” Meyers told reporters at the race. “We’re ready to come out and lay it down tomorrow. We’re going to come out and do the best we can. Lauren pushed us really well today.”
The race will conclude Wednesday with runs at 4:40 a.m. and 6 a.m. Denver time.
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