Milan-Cortina Games<\/a>, she collected her sixth medal, matching American Elana Meyers Taylor for most by a female sledder. The prize, her second of these Games, also made her the most decorated woman bobsledder over the age of 40.<\/p>\nYet her biggest accomplishment may have been the example she set for other mothers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019ll remember anything, but we got some awesome pictures and at the end of the day, it\u2019s just the fact that he gets to be here, that he\u2019s been on this journey this entire season, that he gets to be a part of it,\u201d Humphries said of her son.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a long time I waited to have a child and I put my career first. And to know that I can have it all, I can be a mom, I can have my son here, I can still be at the pinnacle of performance and be on that Olympic podium, it really is just awesome. And it gave us that little extra boost that we needed today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meyers Taylor\u2019s sixth Olympic medal also came in Cortina, when she won the women\u2019s monobob to become, at 41, the oldest person to win gold in any Winter Games. Meyers Taylor and brakewoman Jadin O\u2019Brien finished tied for seventh in the two-woman event.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t even put into words what it\u2019s meant to be able to do this for so long,\u201d said Meyers Taylor, who was competing in her fifth Olympics, one fewer than Humphries. \u201cTo be able to represent my country and be able to slide, to do what I love to do. I don\u2019t know if this is the end, it kind of feels like it. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t tell if I\u2019m happy or sad, I\u2019ve had an incredible career, I\u2019ve been able to do some amazing things, meet some amazing people. I gave it everything \u2014 I gave it every last thing. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything more I could possibly give.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi of Germany, the reigning Olympic champions, successfully defended their title Saturday, beating Lisa Buckwitz and Neele Schuten, also of Germany.<\/p>\n
Humphries and Jones four-run time of 3 minutes and 49.21 seconds was .75 seconds behind the winners and .37 seconds ahead of Germany\u2019s third sled, piloted by Kim Kalicki, preventing a German sweep.<\/p>\n
Kaysha Love and Azaria Hill, former track teammates at Nevada Las Vegas, finished fifth. Hill, from Santa Clarita, is the daughter of Olympic medalists Virgil Hill (boxing) and Denean Howard (track).<\/p>\n
Humphries and Jones set a track record of 56.92 seconds in their first run Friday but bumped around a bit in their second run, falling to third. They stayed there over the rest of the two-day competition.<\/p>\n
Humphries, who competed in her first four Olympics for Canada, said she hopes she leaves a legacy that goes beyond medals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis sport needs to grow as a whole,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re able to be here because of the women that were before us and that fought for women to have this sport and for us to have these opportunities. And we\u2019re going to continue to do our best work so that women long after us also have these opportunities and that they don\u2019t feel limited based on opportunity, based on whatever the circumstances, whatever country they come from, whatever race they\u2019re from, whether they\u2019re a mom or not or whether they\u2019re 40 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bobsled bronze was the 32nd medal overall for the U.S. in these Games, two better than Italy. Norway has won a record 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kaillie Humphries made history Saturday night at the Cortina Sliding Centre. And her 19-month-old son, Aulden, was there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11432,87098,19610,88432,85955,88430,48,52,51,88434,47,50,49,88429,80746,88433,80834,595,9018,88431,83415],"class_list":{"0":"post-188145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-americans","9":"tag-azaria-hill","10":"tag-bronze-medal","11":"tag-four-run-time","12":"tag-humphries","13":"tag-jasmine-jones","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-headlines","16":"tag-la-news","17":"tag-lisa-buckwitz","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-medal-stand","22":"tag-milan-cortina-games","23":"tag-neele-schuten","24":"tag-olympic-champion","25":"tag-saturday","26":"tag-second","27":"tag-two-woman","28":"tag-winter-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}