If you watch the Winter Olympics today, women’s bobsled is part of the program.

That wasn’t always the case. In the early 1990s, women were banned from competing in the sport.

In this episode of Matters of Consequence, host Michael Hanf speaks with Alexandra Allred and Liz Parr-Smestad, two of the women who were part of the early effort to change that. They talk about what it was like to be involved in opening bobsled to women, the physical risks involved, and what that period of their lives looked like from the inside.

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