When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero.

Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three.

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!

Being southern and doing bobsled was difficult from the standpoint that I had no idea how to handle the cold and how to dress in the cold, let alone warm up and compete in the cold - so it was a definite shock. I didn't even own a coat when I first started bobsledding!

I've always been the type willing to try a lot of different things.

I've been in plenty of crashes! Some are not too bad - resulting in ice burn. Others are pretty rough, and sometimes - rarely, but sometimes - people do get seriously injured. It's a risk we all know of and accept. If you bobsled, you're going to crash - guaranteed.

I'm not sure I'll ever love softball as much as bobsled. It's like having children: you don't love one more than the other, you just love them differently, and that's how my love for softball is vs. my love of bobsled - two totally different sports with different personalities.

After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.

I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it.

I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars.

Bobsleigh is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball.

Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would.

After the situation I had with my concussion in 2015, how long and lasting the effects were, I'm just more careful about it.

Oh my gosh, cheat meals I could go on and on about.

I don't like cold weather.

I converted from softball. We've got volleyball, we've got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled.

Most people watch a game because they're excited about it; I'll sit there and watch lacrosse championships to try to find a female who could be a bobsledder.

I'll do whatever I need to do to bring more athletes to the sport.

I don't put limits on anybody.

I love this sport, and I want people to have the opportunities that I have. I want the kid in the inner city to know that she can be a bobsledder one day, and I want the kid in the middle of Africa to know that she can be a bobsledder one day. So the more that we can go out there and grow the sport, the better.

Anytime you hit a curve, or you hit on the side of the wall, you hit against the side of the sled. We're taking four to five, sometimes six or seven Gs on our body every time we go down the track. And then the crashing.

I went to college, George Washington University, and played softball there. I also played professionally but with the real goal of being an Olympian and making the Olympic team.

I'm a squat person: I love squats. I love back squats, things like that.

I've been on every type of nutrition plan you can think of.

If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for.

I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit, and finally, we ended up in Georgia.

I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats.

My favorite thing about South Korea is the people - they are so kind and helpful.

I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that.

I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman.

My mom has never cared if I did sports or not. Obviously, she's proud of me, and she loves the fact that I'm an Olympian and she's got these trinkets to hang around with the medals and whatnot. But if I wanted to do whatever, if I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer or whatever, she was going to support me regardless.

We train six days a week, and each day includes some type of running or strength workout. It's all about getting functionally stronger in the positions that matter for racing, which means balancing the strength between my quads and hamstrings.

I'm not big on protein shakes - I think they're pretty gross, actually - so I have to make sure I eat enough meat, fish, and other good protein sources.

You could have the best run of your life and lose a race because somebody has a better day. Or you could have the worst run and win.

Bobsledding is an expensive sport.

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my hand at bobsled. They'd seen it on TV at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 and thought it would be a good sport for me.

Bobsled is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball.

If you've seen 'Cool Runnings,' it looks pretty easy. You're just riding in a sled, right? Not exactly. Bobsled actually involves a series of complex movements that aren't like those in any other sport. You put your body into a really awkward position to push a 400-pound sled downhill on ice.

In bobsled, you work as a team - a driver and a brakeman. Both athletes push, but the brakeman's biggest responsibility is to push as fast as she can and get in and ride down in a good aerodynamic position. The driver helps to push but gets in first and then steers the sled down the track. We aren't just along for the ride, despite how it looks!

It's hard to describe what it's like to live with a concussion. You want to enjoy things like you used to, but you can't. You wake up in the morning and wonder how you're going to feel that day: What will my reactions be like? Will I have a headache? Will I have to triple check to see if I unplugged the flat iron?

All growing up, the outside world wants to tell you what you can and cannot do as a female - what sports are acceptable, what sports are appropriate, what is appropriate to study, what is appropriate to say. But luckily, I have a strong family, and my mom is the most amazing mom in the world. She never let me worry about biases.

I was always encouraged to participate in whatever sports I wanted to be in.

I know how much my mom has impacted my journey and how much I wouldn't be where I am without my mom. As much as she says she's proud of me, I'm even more so proud of her because of what she's done and how she's been able to raise me and my sisters.

I'm freakishly good at squatting.

I trash talk all the time.

A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled.

I love my teammates. I love my coaches.

I feel like sport can transcend a lot of different things.

Sport can transcend bias.