Edition: U.S. / Global  OLYMPICS: BOBSLED; Forgotten Team Gives
U.S. Gold In the Bobsled  Published: February 20, 2002  More
than two years ago, Vonetta Flowers's dream of making the 2000
United States Olympic track team died. After failing to qualify
at the trials in Sacramento, she found a flier, posted on her
hotel entrance: ''Wanted,'' it read, ''Versatile Athletes
Interested in the Bobsled.'' Her husband, Johnny, handed it to
her.  ''Bobsled?'' she said. The couple, natives of Alabama,
laughed.  Jill Bakken, 25, had been driving the sled circuit for
eight years. Bakken, a former Oregon State soccer player, wanted
a partner to push and brake for her, to finally reward her time
and perseverance. She had no endorsements and no agent, not like
some of the other rising stars in the sport.  Together, Bakken
and Flowers sped down an icy hill at 80 miles an hour tonight,
down the mountain at Utah Olympic Park on a sled with no
distinction and almost no name. United States 2, they were
called, and they were prett