The second week of the 2026 Milan-Cortino Olympic Winter Games were as exciting, if not more, than the first. While our Sportsman of the Week last week continued his dominance toward an eventual eleven Gold Medals (all time Winter Games record), and American Bobsledder earned her glory in what was sure to be her last attempt at a gold, Elana Meyers Taylor earned her first gold medal after years of greatness in the Women's Monobob. So many story lines. It was her fifth Olympics, the first four well decorated but without gold. It was her sixth medal, tying Olympic legend Bonnie Blair for most medals by an American female. Becomes only the fourth American athlete with six or more medals add Bode Miller and Apolo Anton Ohno. The only gold medal in bobsled for the United States. Talk about elite company. Oh, and at age 41, she's the oldest American athlete to win any medal, and second oldest ever to win Gold. She beat heavy favorite German Laura Nolte by four ONE HUNDREDTHS of a second through the four runs, technically she booked her time, and Nolte came in slow after a less than perfect final run. Am amazing woman, amazing athlete, amazing Olympian, amazing American, and amazing Sportswoman of the Week!
This is Elana Meyers Taylor's second Sportswoman of the Week having won four years ago.
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