Brian Mann

Humphreys won gold in this event four years ago and slid a clean line here to win bronze.

Both women will have another shot at the podium in two-woman bobsled races later in the week.

Brian Mann, NPR News, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Ilana Myers-Taylor and Kaylee Humphries have been teammates for years, talking publicly about the challenges of being elite athletes who are also parents moving into middle age.

On the winding ice track, they put their deep experience on the line in the monobop race, where each athlete pushes and drives a solo bobsled.

Myers-Taylor came from behind to edge out a German sledder by four one-hundredths of a second, capturing gold.

Myers-Taylor has the most medals of any black athletes in the Winter Games, with gold, three silver, and a bronze.

Humphreys won gold in this event four years ago and slid a clean line here to win bronze.

Both women will have another shot at the podium in two-woman bobsled races later in the week.

Brian Mann, NPR News, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

This is definitely not that big dramatic comeback moment.

The Giant Slalom is not her best event.

She was injured in this event a couple of years ago.

That said, as she came by and talked with us, she looked incredibly upbeat, incredibly positive.

She said she was really hopeful that she was within touching distance of the leaders.

And so she's got one more event here.

The slalom, which is her big race, that's going to come on Wednesday.

This is her chance to bring home a medal of some kind for the U.S.

We'll see if that can happen.

The hometown favorite Italian athletes are having a great Olympics, led by Alpine skier Federica Brenogne.