CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The only thing Elana Meyers Taylor has yet to do in her bobsled career is win Olympic gold, which made her process of choosing a strategy for the final two runs of the women’s monobob race at the Milan Cortina Games extremely easy.“I’m chasing,” Meyers Taylor said.Game on. The medal hunt in Cortina could be a wild one Monday night.Laura Nolte of Germany is the leader after Sunday’s first two runs of the women’s monobob competition, finishing in 1 minute, 59.12 seconds. And right on her heels — a pair of American 40-something mothers in Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, chasing even more Olympic medals for their collections.Nolte’s lead is 0.22 seconds over Meyers Taylor and 0.31 seconds over Humphries Armbruster going into Monday night’s final two runs of the competition.“It’s coming down to the wire,” Humphries Armbruster said. “There’s definitely lots of room to make mistakes on this track. Ice conditions are changing every single run. I’ve got to work real hard at the start. I’m trying to keep up with mid-20-year-olds and I’m still only year and a half postpartum, so there’s definitely still room for improvement.”After the first three, there’s a bit of a gap to the rest of the medal-chasing pack: Switzerland’s Melanie Hasler is fourth, 0.78 seconds off Nolte’s lead, and Kaysha Love of the U.S. is fifth — 0.89 seconds back.It is a loaded leaderboard.Nolte is the reigning World Cup overall monobob champion. Humphries Armbruster won monobob gold at Beijing when the sport debuted in the Olympic program four years ago. Meyers Taylor won the silver in that Olympic race. Hasler is a 10-time World Cup medalist, always seeming to be on the brink of a breakthrough. Love — who clearly wasn’t happy after experiencing a ton of trouble in her second heat, dropping one spot to fifth — won the world mon …
