Pyeongchang, South Korea • Taylor Morris has had better runs. Much better. On Saturday here, flirting with 80 mph speeds down the ice, the American luger bumped the side of the track on turn No. 9, pinged against the other wall, and cost himself too much time in a sport decided by hundredths of a second.
But standing near the finish line, 5,000 miles away from the steep street by the University of Utah where he first fell in love with the sport, the South Jordan resident couldn’t help feeling a little proud.
“It shows what the last four years, and what the last 16 years, really, have been about,” he said.