CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – German bobsledder Laura Nolte delivered a flawless performance on Saturday to claim her second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the Two-Woman bobsled competition, bouncing back from a heartbreaking loss just seven days earlier.
Nolte had suffered disappointment the previous week when she lost the Monobob championship by a razor-thin margin of four hundredths of a second after making an error on her final run. However, she showed no signs of that setback affecting her performance in Saturday’s Two-Woman event.
The podium featured another German athlete, as Nolte’s teammate Lisa Buckwitz secured the silver medal. Taking bronze was Kaillie Humphries, the veteran slider who previously captured Olympic gold in 2010 and 2014 while competing for Canada but now races under the American flag.
