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Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor reveals positive COVID-19 test in Instagram post

Elana Meyers Taylor won her first two-woman bobsled race in three years. (Ibsf)

Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor, Team USA's three-time Olympic medalist who's aiming for her first gold medal in the two-woman and newly introduced single-slider monobob disciplines, wrote in an Instagram post Monday night that she had tested positive for COVID-19 just ahead of the 2022 Winter Games:

 

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View social media post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZaxj4bIkNJ/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

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Meyers Taylor previously earned Olympic bronze at Vancouver 2010, silver at Sochi 2014, and a second silver at PyeongChang 2018. She has been widely viewed as a gold medal contender at the upcoming Games, hot off a 2021-22 Bobsled World Cup season that saw her top the standings in both the woman's monobob and two-woman events. 

 

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Monobob's first-ever Olympic competition begins with training heats on February 11 at 9:00 p.m. EST, while the event's final is supposed to follow Super Bowl LVI (56) on NBC on Sunday, February 13. The two-woman race kicks off Saturday, February 19th at 7:00 a.m. EST and concludes Sunday, February 13th at 8:00 p.m. A complete schedule of bobsledding races and exclusive NBC and Peacock streams can be found on NBCOlympics.com.

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Read more via NBC Sports, here. This is a developing story.


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