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Kaillie Humphries on Monday became the first woman to win Olympic bobsleigh medals at four Games, a feat matched by fellow US athlete Elana Meyers Taylor, who took home the silver in the inaugural women’s Olympic monobob. The race was introduced in the Beijing Games after a long campaign for women to gain an extra competition at the Olympics. Previously, there were only two-man, two-woman, and four-man races. “This is huge. I still remember back in 2002, the first women who won: Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers. I hope in the future young girls are going to go, ‘I remember Kaillie’, and then th…