US Record-Breaking Winter Olympian Elana Meyers Taylor, feted in Texas hometown, talks to about her extraordinary journey to Olympic gold

The Texas city of New Braunfels held a parade on March 14 for U.S. Winter Olympic athlete Elana Meyers Taylor, a resident who won gold in women’s monobob at last month’s Milano Cortina games and became the oldest athlete, at 41 years old, to win an individual gold medal in Winter Olympic history. Town residents honored Meyers Taylor with a military honor guard, a procession of flag bearers and chants of “USA, USA” as she waved to them from atop a firetruck, joined by her two young sons. Meyers Taylor’s gold in Cortina was her sixth Olympic medal, tying the record for most Winter Olympic medals won by a U.S. woman and extending another record that she already set four years ago in Beijing as the most decorated Black Winter Olympian. In this VOA interview, Meyers Taylor speaks to correspondent Michael Lipin about her extraordinary journey to winning her first and only Olympic gold.