Yeah, Team USA continues to struggle across the board here at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Podiums are not plentiful, which means you’ll read more stories about perseverance, about the Olympic embodiment personified by some athletes. None perhaps more so than Brittany Bowe.
There were days less than a year ago when she doubted she’d be able to race again. She was unsure if she’d even be able to lace up skates, step out onto the ice and take a relaxing lap. Bowe, a former world champion and world record holder, was lost for much of the last 18 months in the haze of severe post-concussion symptoms that took so long to dissipate
“What I thought was going to be a couple weeks turned into a couple months, into a year,” she said.