By Andrew Gastelum The opening ceremony takes place Friday in the Bird’s Nest. View the original article to see embedded media. Five-time Olympic curler John Shuster and four-time Olympic bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor were voted by Team USA to be the nation’s flag bearers at the Beijing Olympics. Shuster, one of four five-time Olympians in Beijing for Team USA, is the first American curler to be chosen as a flag bearer. Taylor, meanwhile, is the only woman to win three Olympic bobsled medals for the U.S. with two silvers and a bronze. However, after testing positive for COVID-19, Taylor annou…