Jadin O’Brien’s path: A track star gets a message, and winds up part of the US Olympic bobsled team

By TIM REYNOLDS

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.

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