Meyers Taylor still remembers the gold that slipped away

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — The record books and the result sheets and the photos from the medal podium all make it very clear. Officially, U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor won a silver medal at the Sochi Olympics.

She has a different perspective.

"I lost gold," she said. "For sure."

That has been part of the burden that Meyers Taylor has carried around for the last four years, a quadrennial that has proven far more difficult than she would have wanted. She struggled with a concussion and confidence problems, and was personally devastated like so many other U.S. sliders were last year by the death of Steven Holcomb — her close friend and a mentor in many respects.