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02/21 14:54 CST Laura Nolte secures Olympic bobsled gold, Kaillie Humphries
Armbruster wins 6th medal
Laura Nolte secures Olympic bobsled gold, Kaillie Humphries Armbruster wins 6th
medal
By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Sports Writer
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) --- Laura Nolte didn't let this lead get away.
She's golden, again.
And Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, in perhaps her Olympic bobsled finale, found
her way to the medal stand for a record-tying sixth time.
Nolte is now the back-to-back two-woman Olympic bobsled champion, holding off
teammate Lisa Buckwitz to grab gold at the Milan Cortina Games on Saturday
night.
Nolte --- the winner of the last four World Cup two-woman titles --- cemented
her status as the sport's current queen, teaming with Deborah Levi to win her
second consecutive two-woman gold medal by finishing four runs in 3 minutes,
48.46 seconds.
Buckwitz, with Neele Schuten in her sled, was second in 3:48.99. Humphries
Armbruster and Jasmine Jones --- two mothers in the same sled for the U.S. ---
finished third in 3:49.21. It was the sixth Olympic medal for Humphries
Armbruster, tying monobob gold medalist Elana Meyers Taylor for the most by any
woman in the sport's history.
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