Pewaukee’s Jadin O’Brien will push for Olympic monobob gold medalist Elana Meyers Taylor on Friday and Saturday in the two-woman competition at Cortina.
It is a story perhaps like none other in these Olympics: A rookie, who has raced only twice in her career, is going to compete on the sport's biggest stage with a very real chance of finding her way to the Olympic medal stand.
O'Brien, a 10-time All-American in track and field at Notre Dame, will compete in bobsled at the upcoming Olympics after an unprecedented rise in the sport.
"August 2nd, I finished the USA Championships, and August 4th I started training for bobsled," O'Brien told TMJ4. "10 days after that, I was out in the rookie camp in Lake Placid. I did the rookie camp, the week after that, did another training week, and then the push championship weeks. I had two weeks to learn the sport and somehow made it."
The first run of the two-woman bobsled competition will air beginning at 11 a.m. Friday on TMJ4.
Also airing on TMJ4 will be Team USA vs. Slovakia in the men's hockey semifinals. The game starts at 2:10 p.m.
The women's curling semifinals will also be held Friday, with Team USA taking on Switzerland at 7:45 a.m. on USA Network. The event will re-air on USA Network at 7:45 p.m.
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