Vonetta Flowers
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"Vonetta Flowers" is an American bobsledder and Athletics (track and field)/athlete.

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I felt like I was thrown down a mountain in a trash can.

They got their passports when they were 5 months old.

I truly feel blessed and honored to have that title. I'm really excited that my grandkids will be reading about me in history books.

He's more vocal. We get very emotional because he is trying to talk to us. We're very encouraged.

It's an amazing feeling. I want to go through it again because I want to share it with them.

We had our one bad run. We said, 'no more bad runs.' We just want to have fun and do our best.

It was different in 2002 because we were in the United States. It was our home track and we had been training on that track for years. But I think we've been having some excellent runs these last few days so I'm ready. I think we are going to do really well.

There are so many emotional stories in our lives that the cameras missed outside of the competition, which viewers never got to see. This online 'scrap book' gives us a chance to share the entire journey leading up to, and during the Games to really illustrate the ups and downs an athlete and their mom's experience along the road to becoming a U.S. Olympian.

Every time she did it, he looked for that. Of course, that made us feel really good.