Erin Jackson has become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics.
BEIJING — Erin Jackson has never viewed herself as some sort of trailblazer. She just likes to skate really, really fast, whether it's on wheels or blades.
“Hopefully, this has an effect,” Jackson said. “Hopefully, we’ll see more minorities, especially in the USA, getting out and trying these winter sports.”Sunday with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games and first individual medal since 2010.
Jackson skated in the next-to-last of 15 pairs with Takagi's time of 37.12 — set about a half-hour earlier in the fourth pairing — in her sights.“It's not something to really focus on," Jackson said. “That was a fluke.” “When I won the first World Cup, I was like, ‘OK that’s strange. Let's see where it goes,'" Jackson recalled. “Then I won another and I was like, ‘Well, maybe I can do this.’”
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