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...Heading into this season, there were all sorts of feel-good stories on the U.S. women's team. The best duo in the world for two years running was 5-ft. 4-in. driver Jean Racine, 23, and 5-ft. 11-in. brakeman-pusher Jen Davidson, 29, a resident of Olympic-host Utah to boot. "Jean & Jen" were the first-ever golden girls of bob, "so well-rounded, articulate and charming," as their website, bobsledgirl.com put it a few short weeks ago. Not shy about trading on that charm, the pair had been photographed for cereal-box covers...
...primarily to propel the sled at the start. Go a tenth of a second too slow in this 50-m run-up, and you're a loser. Jean & Jen finished third in one race, out of the medals in all others, as Germans swarmed the podium. Racine told Davidson not to worry. On Dec. 5, says Davidson, she got a reassuring voice mail: "You and I are going to be on the U.S. Olympic team, and whatever bulls___ we have to deal with to get us there, we're going to do it...I love you, and I believe...
Something was. Bakken started things by calling a "push-off" between her pal Rhobock and Vonetta Flowers. Soon Johnson was part of the contest too. It was suggested to Davidson that she toe the line as well. Davidson, asking for a chance to get back on the team in a complaint now with the American Arbitration Association, claims Racine told her there was no need to enter the push-off; her seat was safe...
Johnson won the contest, and push-off came to shove-off. Racine, as top driver, chose Johnson, the best pusher. Bakken, the No. 2 driver, took Flowers. When the music stopped, Davidson had no seat. Roy insists that his coaches didn't make the call: "Jean chose Gea." Whatever. Warner was pusherless on the eve of the trials. She scrambled but didn't qualify. "Maybe my role in all of this was to make other people's dreams come true," Warner says gamely. "It's hard to be happy with that, but I have...
Clifford S. Davidson...