Elana Meyers Taylor made history at the Milan Cortina Winter Games on Monday, becoming the oldest woman to win an individual gold medal in Winter Olympics history at age 41.

The American bobsledder faced an uphill battle to reach the mountain top, giving birth to two children and dealing with concussions that set her back. This was her sixth career medal and first Olympic title.

Meyers Taylor achieved this accomplishment with both of her kids in the audience, watching her as she completed her lifelong dream and mission. “I thought it was impossible,” Meyers Taylor said.

Meyers Taylor rallied in the fourth and final heat, winning with a four-run, two-day time of three minutes and 57.93 seconds.

She was already the most decorated black athlete in Winter Olympics history before winning the gold, only solidifying her place in history. This win put her in a tie with Bonnie Blair for the most by a U.S. woman in the Winter Olympics. Meyers Taylor spoke on being in the same company as Blair, saying, “To have my name up there with Bonnie Blair, it doesn’t even make sense to me.”

The U.S. also took home the bronze medal in this event with Kaillie Humphries Armbruster finishing in third. Germany’s Laura Nolte, who was in the lead for the majority of the contest, finished in second place.

Team USA bobsledder Kaillie Humphries is the most decorated woman in bobsled history, according to Team USA, and she’s going back for more during the Beijing Olympics.

Humphries previously competed for Team Canada and won two gold medals and one bronze before she joined Team USA in 2019 and proceeded to win multiple championships. She became an American citizen just in time to qualify to compete in the Olympics for Team USA this year.

“You’re looking at the newest CITIZEN of United States of America ??,” she wrote on Instagram. “I’m living proof that the American Dream still exists. Immigration is not just a link to the past. It’s also a link to the future, and ‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams’.”

Humphries believes in pushing for equality for her sport so that everyone can have a chance to compete.

“I grew up in the sport where we weren’t allowed on the same bobsled tracks as the men,” she said. “We weren’t allowed in the same start houses as the men, we got a tent outside in minus 20 degrees, prize money wasn’t the same and I literally have been told ‘you’re not strong enough, you’re not fast enough, you’re not skilled enough as a female, we won’t put you in’.”

For the first time since it was introduced into the games in 2002 women’s bobsledding will have equal medal opportunity for both men and women, a move which Humphries thinks is a step in the right direction.