Hot Take: Interview with Elana Meyers Taylor, Olympic Bobsled Favorite, on Testing Positive for COVID and Staying Optimistic

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this hot take, Jessica Luther and Amira Rose Davis are joined by 4x Olympian Elana Meyers Taylor and 2022 bobsled favorite, currently in isolation in Beijing after testing positive for COVID-19. They discuss being in isolation from her family, how she's staying ready for competition in hopes she will be cleared to compete, and what is was like to learn she was voted Flag Bearer for Team U.S.A. on the same day she tested positive for COVID. They also discuss her leadership in diversifying bobsled and the work ahead to further diversify the Winter Olympics. To learn more about Elana, listen to episode 145 from February 2020, where she discussed her journey from softball to bobsled, as well as what it was like to be a world class athlete while pregnant. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down, and I'm joined you out, and I'm playing with your babies to the screaming shout, oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:13.3	Jessica here, and I'm joined tonight by Amira, and we are thrilled to have four-time U.S. Olympian, Bob Slutterder, and flamethrower, Alana Myers-Taylor, with us right now.
0:25.3	If you listen to our Olympic preview that we published earlier this week, you will already know that Alana is a three-time medalist.
0:32.2	She won a silver medal at the last two Olympics.
0:35.2	She's currently ranked number one in both of the women's events, the two women's bobsled
0:40.5	and the new, very fun to say, Monobob.
0:44.9	Today we learned that her fellow U.S. Olympians voted her flag bearer for the opening ceremony,
0:50.3	but she will not be able to attend because she's currently isolated in a hotel room. I can't tell
0:56.3	exactly where you are, but I'm going to ask him a second, because she tested positive when she got to
1:00.9	China. So first, welcome Alana. We're so happy you're here. Thanks and thanks for having me. Happy to be
1:07.6	here. And I wanted to ask how you're feeling yeah physically i feel great
1:11.7	i have no symptoms i'm uh been asymptomatic the entire time which is a huge blessing um
1:18.3	mentally i think as anybody knows it comes and goes you know i think the hardest thing right now
1:22.3	is being away from my family my husband my son and my my father well. So being in the room, isolated, just trying to
1:29.7	stay focused and as positive as it can. Okay. So can we, I wanted to ask, like, can you walk us through?
1:36.0	Like, what happened after you landed in China? Like, you got off the plane and they immediately
1:40.5	tested you? And that's how you found out that you had COVID?
1:44.9	No.
1:45.8	No.
1:47.7	That would make so much sense if that happened.
1:53.9	So we got off the plane prior to leaving, I actually did a training camp in Switzerland.
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