Word: vonetta
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...Focus on just one moment. It is dusk when, at the top of the bobseld run, Jill Bakken and her push partner Vonetta Flowers, a 24-year-old from Birmingham who had once wanted to be an Olympic track star, toe the line for their final run. Bakken stares toward the first, floodlit turn for a long minute - visualizing, focusing. Then she and Flowers pump their fists, pump up the volume, leap into their sled...
...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. It wasn't pretty, all these sore losers. What was pretty was the sight of the heavily favored German bobsledders hoisting Vonetta Flowers on their shoulders at Olympic Park. Those four Germans, who among them had won every single race on this season's World Cup bobsled circuit, never entertained any thought of boycotting the Closing Ceremonies...
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...
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...