08 March 2019
McNeill fights discrimination but won’t stop career going downhill fast
From fighting discrimination to crowd-funding to realise her Olympic dream, British bobsledder Mica McNeill will stop at nothing to ensure her career keeps heading downhill fast.
“The build-up to Pyeongchang was a very difficult time but it was also one of the highlights of my career, getting all that support from people and going out to represent them at the Olympics."
From fighting discrimination to crowd-funding to realise her Olympic dream, British bobsledder Mica McNeill will stop at nothing to ensure her career keeps heading downhill fast.
McNeill won a much-publicised battle to reach last year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, personally raising her £30,000 target after her sport’s domestic governing body announced it was stripping her of financial support just five months prior to the Games.
A best-ever British women’s result of eighth place, followed by a series of impressive top-six finishes on the World Cup circuit this season, have emphatically vindicated McNeill’s persistence in a sport so often seen as the preserve of privileged white males.
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