by Tim Ellsworth, posted Monday, February 20, 2006 (18 years ago)
TURIN, Italy (BP)--Vonetta Flowers had dreamed about competing in the Olympics since she was 9 years old.
A track and field star in high school and college, Flowers thought the 2000 Olympic trials were her last chance to fulfill that dream. So when she failed to qualify for the U.S. team, she was crushed.
But Flowers now believes God had other plans for her. Applying her track skills to a new sport -– bobsledding -– Flowers took advantage of a new door God had opened in her life. She didn’t just walk through. She raced through. Read More