CORTINA d’AMPEZZO, Italy — It was past the kids’ bedtime—“way past bedtime,” said Elana Meyers Taylor with a laugh—but so what? How often do three little boys get to hang out around the medal podium after their moms win Olympic medals?
There was a time, not that long ago, when the answer to that question was never. It’s still very rare. Women athletes were supposed to choose motherhood over sports when they had kids. Freshly minted gold medalist monobob slider Meyers Taylor and bronze medalist Kaillie Humphries chose both—plus all the chaos that comes with those life decisions—and thrived.
