Episode 79: Elana Meyers Taylor

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy

Sports

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Five-time Olympic medalist, bobsledder and overall rad human Elana Meyers Taylor joins Laughter Permitted to talk about becoming the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympics history, how she dealt with a Covid diagnosis upon arriving at the Beijing Games -- the story is something else -- and how she went from being a college softball player to a top-level bobsledder. Elana also shares what it is like being a professional athlete while raising her son, Nico. In the close of the show, Julie shares a "Hacker-ism" Lynn hasn't heard before that applies to Elana's journey at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The laughter permitted podcast is brought to you by Ally. Do it right.
0:04.0	Well, hello there!
0:06.1	Welcome to laughter permitted. I'm Julie Fowdy. I'm here with Lynn O'Zawi.
0:11.0	Wowie.
0:12.1	I haven't used that one in a long time.
0:14.3	No, you haven't. Hi Lynn.
0:17.2	Julie, you know what?
0:20.0	Yes, O'Zawi, wowie.
0:21.8	Yesterday evening, I found myself thinking about our last episode with
0:27.4	the Dr. Colleen Flashhacker, our last episode of season six.
0:32.5	And how she left us with one of the messages for this year, which was to be a light.
0:38.6	I was thinking, what are we, we're about a fourth of the way through with the year, and
0:44.9	I kind of asked myself am I being light?
0:47.5	And I do think that our first episodes of this season have featured guests who are totally
0:56.2	a light and light up the world.
0:59.2	And I was thinking how our guest today fits that as well.
1:03.7	She does indeed. Because our guest is four time Olympic Bob's letter,
1:10.0	Alana Myers Taylor, who is the most decorated black athlete in winter Olympics history.
1:18.8	I will repeat that again. She is the most decorated black athlete in winter Olympics
1:24.4	history with five medals. She has three silver two bronze.
1:29.4	And she was also chosen the flag bearer for both the opening and closing ceremonies at the
1:35.9	Beijing Olympics. Only fun fact, the second Olympian ever to be chosen for both.
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