Winter Olympics: Team USA athletes with Georgia ties

Born in Oceanside, Calif., three-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor considers Douglasville, Ga. her hometown. Meyers Taylor heads to Beijing as a favorite in the monobob, according to CBS News, which makes its Olympic debut in February. She secured the women’s monobob overall world cup title and knows her way around a bobsled – she won silver in 2018 and 2014 and captured bronze in 2010 in the two-woman bobsled.

After playing lacrosse in both high school and at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., Josh Williamson never dreamed of pushing a bobsled at the Winter Olympics. But now he’s set to make his Olympic debut as a bobsledder at the 2022 Beijing Games. It’s been a unique journey for Williamson. While in college, Williamson began following a few bobsledders on Instagram and noticed a lot of the workouts were similar to ones he’d done as a lacrosse player. Williamson, now 25, eventually signed up for a combine in Park City, Utah. He reportedly stood out enough to earn a spot on “Scouting Camp: The Next Olympic Hopeful,” a 2017 show designed to identify talented athletes from across the country for an opportunity to train with a U.S. national team. One of the sports scouting for talent that year was bobsled.

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