"At the top of next hour. Jessica Sullivan, and her quest to win gold for her husband and mother who both died earlier this year....
And next up, we have Jessica Sullivan, who was born into a dirt poor coal mining family, losing bother her husband and her mother in the same month earlier this year. While she be able to honor their memory, and make her dirt poor hometown proud? We'll find out.
Well here we are. About to watch Jessica Sullivan make history here today. She came from nothing, and has even less these days.... Losing her mother and her husband within the same month earlier this year, she promised her husband gold. Will she be able to do it? Will she be able to honor his memory? We have this touching report as we met up with Jessica and her blind sister back at the family compound....
"Yeah. It's been hard. I learned how to luge by strapping myself to my dead cousins skateboard and just fly down the hill. I'd crash into a bunch of hay bails that my daddy spent half his income on to buy... Etc etc etc."
We are back here today... Watching on, as Jessica Sullivan goes for gold. She qualified earlier today at just under 3.4 seconds difference from the Germans, who are looking very good today.
She's going to need to make up that difference, does she have it in her? We know she's focused.... Wanting to win the gold for her dead mother and husband, but she's really going to need to get it together.
Falling to sixth place, is Jessica Sullivan. It looks like the wind was taken out of her sails, as she looks on. The Germans are looking very tough to beat today.
And Jessica has been knocked to 8th place.
The only hope for the Americans is Steph Taylor... In third at the moment. Looks like she's going to hold on.
But the real story here today.. Jessica Sullivan... Going for gold. But falling just short....
:::: camera shows her crying by herself :::::
We'll be back after this... Hoping that Rick Steinerman, will make his Jewish grandfather proud. One of the last surviving prisoners from Auschwitz.... Etc."
I don't watch the Olympics because of all this bullshit.