Elana Meyers

Even though concussions affect women more often than men, there's not a lot of concussion research about women specifically. You can slip and fall and hit your head and have a concussion. And unless you know what to do, and unless you're able to take the right steps, you may not be able to recover.

A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled.

I'm freakishly good at squatting.

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

My favorite thing about South Korea is the people - they are so kind and helpful.

Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters.

Being southern and doing bobsled was difficult from the standpoint that I had no idea how to handle the cold and how to dress in the cold, let alone warm up and compete in the cold - so it was a definite shock. I didn't even own a coat when I first started bobsledding!

When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero.

I know how much my mom has impacted my journey and how much I wouldn't be where I am without my mom. As much as she says she's proud of me, I'm even more so proud of her because of what she's done and how she's been able to raise me and my sisters.

You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very few times.

Find your passion, set a goal, go to work, evaluate, reassess, and repeat.

It's a challenge, but every single German or Canadian I want to beat, I still have to love them. That means competing the way God wants me to compete and helping my opponents if they have a need.