Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries have heard it all.

The U.S. bobsledders are over 40 and by now, they're used to being counted out.

Yet both reached Olympic glory Monday, finishing on the podium in women's monobob.

Competing in her fifth Winter Olympics, Meyers Taylor finally won that elusive gold medal while Humphries — a three-time gold medal winner in her own right — secured a bronze medal Monday.

"You get a lot of people that like to write you off as soon as you reach 40," Humphries said. "'It's all downhill from there,' is what you hear. I think Elana and I are both proof that that's not true."

Meyers Taylor has already said she plans to retire from bobsledding after the 2026 Winter Olympics, so this was her last chance at a gold medal.

Humphries won the gold medal at the 2022 Games, in the first-ever women's Olympic monobob event.

What makes Monday's glory even more impressive is the fact Meyers Taylor and Humphries have had to balance their time as world-class athletes with motherhood.

"I represent more than just myself now," Meyers Taylor said. "I represent my kids, but also I represent a lot of moms back home."

Humphries is competing in her first Winter Olympics as a mother. She has been open about her motherhood journey, as she and her husband (former Team USA bobsled athlete Travis Armbruster) used IVF to conceive. They welcomed a son, Aulden, in June 2024.

"As soon as you become a mom, your body's not the same, and you can never get that high performance back," Humphries said Monday after winning the bronze medal. "And I think we were able to show that that's not true again. For every girl out there that wants that dream of being a high-performance athlete, to stand on an Olympic podium and be a mom at the same time, it can happen.

"You can do whatever you want. Dream big, aim high, shoot for the moon, you'll end among the stars — I think that's the saying — and that's definitely how I feel today, amongst some great women who battled really hard to be here."

Meyers Taylor has two sons with disabilities — both are deaf and her oldest, Nico, has Down syndrome.

This is her second Winter Games as a mother. Her sons were right there with her Monday evening as she celebrated the first Olympic gold medal of her career — a feat in its own right. As any parent can attest to, traveling halfway around the world with two young children can be a daunting task.

"It's absolutely chaotic," a laughing Meyers Taylor said in an interview with NBC's Gadi Schwartz. "They want to get up on the planes and walk around and go talk to the flight attendants and you're just like, 'this is madness.'

"But it's so important for me to have them there. After having them, them having disabilities — that's really the reason that I'm here. Because I want to show them that despite any challenges you have, you can keep going."

On Monday, Meyers Taylor and Humphries certainly proved they can keep going — even when the deck might be stacked against them.

Forget the noise. They are rewriting their own narrative — as 40-year-old Olympians and as mothers.

"Despite being a 41-year-old mother of two and people telling you that it's over and you're done," Meyers Taylor said. "[My sons have] been told 'no' since the day they were born. And I want to show them that, despite what the world tells you, despite what other people tell you, you can still go after your dreams."