P A R K   C I T Y, Utah, Feb. 20 -- What would you do? You devote years helping build a sport from the ice up, begging and bribing operators to get a training run on the track, competing in ...

PARK CITY, Utah, Feb. 19 -- There wasn't a relative Jill Bakken didn't hug in the joyous moments after winning Olympic gold today, leaping over the bobsled track's icy retaining wall and into the ...

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Jill Bakken's gold medal was folded within its blue ribbon and nowhere near her neck. "I guess I could show you this," she said with a smile, revealing the Olympic prize she earned last month in ...

Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers stunned the field last night, winning the gold medal in the inaugural women's Olympic bobsled race and breaking a 46-year drought in the sport for the United States.

Whoever dreamed Jill Bakken, an afterthought in the buildup to the inaugural women’s Olympic bobsled competition, and Vonetta Flowers, a track star who had planned to retire from sports ...

Olympic gold medalist Jill Bakken, a graduate of Lake Washington High School in Kirkland and Eastern Washington University, was inducted into the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Hall of Fame ...

First women's bobsled contest goes to Vonetta Flowers, the first U.S. black to win Winter gold, and Jill Bakken. On Two Tracks, Americans Mine Historic Gold - Los Angeles Times ...

Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers knew they were just “the other team” in women’s bobsled. How could they compete for headlines against the tawdry tales spinning around the pilot of the USA 1 ...

Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers stunned the field, winning the gold medal in the... PARK CITY, Utah – The U.S. bobsled team no one knew about made history last night.

Jill Bakken made the same bobsled decision "Mean Jean" Racine made, only, Bakken got the gold.