US EditionJadin O’Brien’s Path: A Track Star Gets a Message, and Winds up Part of the US Olympic Bobsled Team
Jadin O’Brien transitioned from Notre Dame track star to Olympic bobsled push athlete in months after an Instagram invite, competing in the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.
- On Feb. 18, 2026, the U.S. selection committee named Jadin O'Brien to the Olympic roster after choosing one push athlete from three contenders in Cortina.
- From Notre Dame, O'Brien received an Instagram direct message saying `We would love to have you tryout for bobsled!!!`, initially thinking it was a scam before testing the sport in Lake Placid last August.
- During a January training run in St. Moritz, O'Brien and her pilot suffered a severe crash that nearly ended her season, but she pushed better than some teammates within two weeks.
- O'Brien will push for Olympic monobob gold medalist Elana Meyers Taylor on Friday and Saturday, and with Meyers Taylor's recent monobob gold, the pairing enters the two-woman event as realistic medal contenders.
- Highlighting social-media recruiting, O'Brien's move from an Instagram DM to the Olympic roster took about six months, despite her being a rookie who raced only twice.
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Jadin O’Brien’s path: A track star gets a message, and winds up part of the US Olympic bobsled team
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Jadin O'Brien thought she was being scammed. The Milan Cortina Olympics — and the sport of bobsled, for that matter
Jadin O’Brien’s path: A track star gets a message, and winds up part of the US Olympic bobsled team - KFIZ News-Talk 1450 AM
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Jadin O’Brien thought she was being scammed. The Milan Cortina Olympics — and the sport of bobsled, for that matter — were not anywhere near O’Brien’s radar a couple years ago, when the Notre Dame track and field star saw that someone sent her a direct message on Instagram. The message was ignored. Several months later, the same person slid into O’Brien’s DMs again. “We would love to have you tryout for bobsled!!!…
Jadin O'Brien's path: A track star gets a message, and winds up part of the US Olympic bobsled team - The Morning Sun
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Jadin O'Brien thought she was being scammed. The Milan Cortina Olympics — and the sport of bobsled, for that matter — were not anywhere near O'Brien's radar a couple years ago, when the Notre Dame track and field star saw that someone sent her a direct message on Instagram. The message was ignored. Several months later, the same person slid into O'Brien's DMs again. “We would love to have you tryout for bobsled!!!…
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