Alana Myers-Taylor
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You know, only when I want to pull something on my husband, you know, tell him he's got to take out the garbage or anything, then you pull it out and you're like, there you go.
So monobob, bobsled has traditionally had the two-person and the four-man disciplines.
Monobob is just a single person in the sled.
So we push, run, jump in, and then we're in charge of navigating it all by ourselves.
So no help this time.
You don't have to worry about anybody.
Yeah, so as I mentioned earlier, women have only had two disciplines.
There's a two-man and a four-man, and women have only been able to compete at the Olympic level in the two-person.
So they finally allowed us to compete in the four-person, and I was like, yes, let's do this.
Let's get another shot to win an Olympic medal, and I competed in the four-man discipline actually with my husband.
So I was the first woman to make the U.S.
men's national team in a four-man sled with my husband.
It could have been a mixture, but it was largely women pilots with a male crew behind them and then competing against men.
No, they were pretty happy for me just to be behind me and just to support me.
And I think it helps when your husband's back there.
He's going to keep him in line.
No, but it is the perfect date night because you can't bring the kids.
So, you know, the kids can't be in the sled.
So, you know, it's me time.