Elana Meyers Taylor on continuing the winning tradition of Black athletes at Winter Olympics

Elana Meyers Taylor paid tribute to those who paved the way after she became the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympic history.

The Team USA bobsleigh star won silver in the inaugural women's monobob before the pilot claimed bronze with brakewoman Sylvia Hoffman in the two-woman bobsled.

With her two medals from Beijing 2022, Meyers Taylor now has five across four Olympic Winter Games, more than any other Black athlete.

It is one more than speed skating star Shani Davis, who won two gold and two silver medals across four Games.

Meyers Taylor pointed to Black athletes that have gone before her, reserving special praise for Vonetta Flowers who blazed a trail as the first Black athlete to win a Winter Olympics title with gold in the two-woman bobsled at Salt Lake City 2002.

She told Olympics.com: "There's a lot of people that came before me. Vonetta Flowers is the reason I'm here, and (speed skater) Shani Davis, and even Erin Jackson [500m speed skating gold medallist in Beijing].

"It's just been such a long legacy of Black athletes at the Winter Olympics and hopefully it just continues."

Speaking to Team USA, she added: "Hopefully it just encourages more and more Black athletes to come out to winter sports and not just Black athletes, winter sports for everybody."

The records have kept coming for Meyers Taylor at Beijing 2022.

At 37, she became the oldest woman to claim an Olympic bobsled medal with her monobob silver and the first woman to win two bobsled medals at a single Olympics.

Meyers Taylor is the fifth USA bobsledder to win two medals at a single Games following Steven Holcomb, Steve Langton, Stan Benham and Pat Martin.

She has won a medal in every Olympic event she has entered since her debut at Vancouve