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Elana Meyers Taylor’s impossible: from the NICU back to the bobsled podium

When Elana Meyers Taylor recently finished her first bobsled World Cup run in 22 months, she performed an unprecedented feat in a career that’s included three Olympic medals and two world titles.

She stepped out of her sled and grabbed her 10-month-old son, Nico, from her husband, Nic Taylor.

Nic called it “the most special moment” of the first month of what they labeled “the traveling circus.” The Taylors flew to Europe around the New Year to rejoin the international bobsled circuit, traversing Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

When Meyers Taylor finished that comeback run in Winterberg, Germany, on Jan.