Word: gea
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...Bakken's bake-off also had a third contestant: Gea Johnson, a newcomer to the U.S. bobsled team who was posting incredible start times with Warner. When Johnson won the push-off, Racine decided to act, and, as America's top gun pilot, laid claim to the top gun grunt. She told her partner and best friend, Jen Davidson, that she was out and Johnson was in. (Racine had reassured Davidson that their slowing times would not affect their partnership.) Warner lost the push athlete she wanted, and failed to perform up to speed at trials. Davidson took the matter...
...began training in Salt Lake as, through no fault of her own, Racine continued down the twisty tabloid course. Back home in Michigan, her father David was facing a charge of sexual child abuse, the allegation involving a 13-year-old friend of Jean's younger sister. Then Saturday, Gea Johnson busted a hamstring on a training run. This time, Racine made a strange decision: rather than putting athletic potential above friendship and replace Johnson with a healthy alternate, she would keep her on and hope the leg healed. It didn't. "Imagine someone stabbing you with a knife...
...finish up at the track, we visit the bobsledders. The U.S. women are famously controversial, owing to top-gun driver Jean Racine kicking her former best friend and brakeman Jen Davidson out of the sled. Racine and new brakeman Gea Johnson still have a good chance to medal. On the men's side, Texan Todd Hays, 32, is a household name from Calgary to Cortina after emerging during the current World Cup series as a daring driver with a superfast sled...
...cereal-box covers and had lined up other endorsements worth about half a million dollars. Other Yanks had cute angles too. Driver Jill Bakken had her best friend, Shauna Rhobock, aboard, and driver Bonny Warner was a luge veteran trying to make her fourth Olympic team with big Gea Johnson, the heptathlete in question, behind...
Johnson won the contest, and push-off came to shove-off. Racine, as top driver, chose Johnson, the best pusher. Bakken, the No. 2 driver, took Flowers. When the music stopped, Davidson had no seat. Roy insists that his coaches didn't make the call: "Jean chose Gea." Whatever. Warner was pusherless on the eve of the trials. She scrambled but didn't qualify. "Maybe my role in all of this was to make other people's dreams come true," Warner says gamely. "It's hard to be happy with that, but I have...