Elana Meyers is training for the Summer Olympics in Rio in 2016

A silver three weeks of Sochi, the American bobsledder Elana Meyers is ready to repeat a new Olympic experience but this time in a discipline summer.

Tuesday 25 March 2014 4 minutes reading time

The rider of the movement of the stars and stripes is in fact selected by the coach of the American team of seven rubgy to take part in the first game of the qualifying tournament which will ensure participation in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Meyers in his life he has never seen a live rugby competition and it nor had spent in the world of rugby as a player, he decided to get involved and to accept the new challenge. "I know it's crazy getting out there so no experience - he confessed bobbista the newspaper USA Today - girls of the team are teaching me the rules even though we are only at the beginning." The love between the Californian and twenty-nine rugby erupted last summer at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, during a training session in which both bobbista that American rugby coach Ric Suggitt were preparing for their respective disciplines. Suggit at the end of the training managed to wrest a promise to Elana, meaning that once the season Meyers would have ventured into the sport from rugby and so it was. The bobbista fact has already started training with the other rugbyste encountering initial difficulties in following the logic of the game, "I'm not used to move laterally and in fact are always offside. I too hard to take the ball and run when I should think more. " Meyers if it were to fail to qualify for the Games in Rio de Janeiro complement the reverse path already intrappreso by crew mate Lauryn Williams, who has gone from athletics to bob collecting in both sports a medal in five circles. Elana also will not be the only athlete in the gut American groped their luck at the Olympics of 2016, in fact the skelettonista Katie Uhlaender two years is seriously committed to be the game in weightlifting. The world of rugby continue to bob and thus intertwined, it is news a few days ago that the brakeman Heather Moyse will be the tutor of the youth team to the Canadian Rugby Youth Olympic Games in late August.

Alessandro Genuzio

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