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Russia didn't enjoy itself much, apparently, and South Korea felt hard done by in a speed skating race. After a precedent had been established with a second set of gold medals for the Canadian pairs skaters, everyone was asking for arbitrations and replays and re-runs and extra medals...
Before the Games fun was pretty scarce as the country's three top drivers - Bakken, Racine and Bonny Warner - battled for two Olympic berths. Each was looking for the best possible grunt, or push athlete, for their sled. And in bobsled, drivers have the power to pick who sits in...
Warner started things rolling in October, when she refused to guarantee Flowers that she would remain her push athlete through the Olympic trials. Flowers quit, and went home to Alabama thinking her bobsled days were over.
Bakken, 26, a seven-year bobsled veteran, had spent the past season sliding with her best friend, Shauna Rohbock. But she got to thinking about the potential of Flowers, a seven-time all-America track and field athlete, and decided to organize a push-off. "It was very difficult of...
Bakken's bake-off also had a third contestant: Gea Johnson, a newcomer to the U.S. bobsled team who was posting incredible start times with Warner. When Johnson won the push-off, Racine decided to act, and, as America's top gun pilot, laid claim to the top gun grunt...