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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sword," says the U.S.'s top woman bob driver, former brakeman Shauna Rohbock. Last season she dropped a partner she couldn't stomach. "You're winning, and then you're like, 'I don't want her to do well.' But she was on the sled." How inconvenient. Drivers swap brakemen like prom dates; soap opera surrounds the U.S. women's team like a Lake Placid cold front. Before the 2002 Olympics, driver Jill Bakken, the eventual gold-medal winner, jilted Rohbock, her partner of three years, for Vonetta Flowers. Jean Prahm dumped her best friend, Jen Davidson, for Gea Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Encounters | 2/4/2006 | See Source »

Drivers swap brakemen like prom dates; soap opera surrounds the U.S. women's team like a Lake Placid cold front. Before the 2002 Olympics, driver Jill Bakken, the eventual gold-medal winner, jilted Rohbock, her partner of three years, for Vonetta Flowers. Jean Prahm dumped her best friend, Jen Davidson, for Gea Johnson. Now Prahm has picked Flowers, and after switching to the driver position, Rohbock is teamed with roommate Valerie Fleming. Bakken was back after a two-year hiatus but lost to Rohbock for one of two driver spots on the Olympic team. Got it? "There's so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Encounters | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

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