This US Bobsleigh Mom Athlete Signed "Mommy Won" To Her Deaf Sons After She Won Olympic Gold
Meyers Taylor's win is especially emotional as she had considered retiring in December 2025 during the bobsled World Cup in Norway.
In a sweet moment, US bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor signed “Mommy won” to her deaf sons after winning a gold medal in the women’s monobob event at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
41-year-old Meyers Taylor defeated Germany's Laura Nolte by just 0.04 seconds in one of the tightest finishes in bobsled history on Feb. 16.
Meyers Taylor’s win makes her the oldest woman to win an individual gold medal in the Winter Olympics.
After she was announced the winner, Meyers Taylor signed to her two sons, five-year-old Nico, deaf with Down syndrome, and three-year-old Noah, who is also deaf, "Mommy won," as she was crying from joy.
“We went over all the signs beforehand, we went over bobsled, bobsled race, champion,” Meyers Taylor said in a post race interview. “They know all the signs, they were well-briefed beforehand. But it didn’t even cross my mind that we would actually be using them.”
Her win is especially emotional as Meyers Taylor had considered retiring in December 2025 during the bobsled World Cup in Norway.
"There were so many moments I thought it wasn’t possible, and I had some really good people in my corner who believed in me," Meyers Taylor told reporters. "And people from all over the world reaching out and telling me their stories, and how they had kids with Down syndrome, they had deaf kids, and how they believed in me, too.”
Meyers Taylor is now tied with Bonnie Blair for the most Winter Games medals by a US woman athlete as well as extending her lead as the most decorated Black woman in Winter Olympic history.
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