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Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers knew they were just "the other team" in women's bobsled. How could they compete for headlines against the tawdry tales spinning around the pilot of the USA 1 sled, Jean Racine? Racine gave us betrayal, arbitration, injury, anger, death and even court dates in the family. She appeared in Olympic-themed ads for Visa and NBC. Bakken and Flowers didn't even have an agent...
...podium. Bakken, who has been hampered by injury and poor performance, hasn't won a World Cup event for years and was ranked sixth coming into the Games. But a record-breaking start time led to a track-record run in the first heat, and her USA 2 sled made a clean, relatively quick second...
...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 the back seat, with coaches playing only an advisory role...
...Shauna to have a push off, but she did because she's an athlete and she knows the game," said Bakken yesterday, crediting Rohbock with playing an important role in getting her to the Games. (Even after Rohbock lost her seat, she continued to help Bakken prepare her sled, and was on hand Tuesday to celebrate...
...didn't. "Imagine someone stabbing you with a knife and scraping it down your leg, deeper and deeper and deeper with every step you take, and it being on fire at the same time," Johnson told TIME of how it felt to sprint while pushing about 400lbs of sled. USA 1 went from posting some of the strongest start-times on the women's circuit to the third-worst on the first run of Tuesday's competition, and the second-worst on the second. Still, they came in fifth in a field...