Third bobsled gold justifies rocky move from Canada to U.S.; she hopes to make one more Olympics in 2026 in Italy
The punishing path Kaillie Humphries navigated to another Olympic gold medal in bobsled — a wholly different gold, in a different country, under unimaginably different circumstances — delivered more hair-raising turns than the Flying Snow Dragon course she tamed in Beijing.
There was the financial strain of training and legal entanglements that choked off oxygen from a dream relentlessly under attack.The bruising obstacles made the smile wider, the beaming face brighter, the cheers ring more crisply Monday while Humphries perched on the back seat of a borrowed Bentley convertible as it pulled into her sleepy Carlsbad cul-de-sac.
They knew her as the kind woman who stopped a workout session in her garage to help a young girl who stopped by with a school project on Canada. Soon, neighborhood girls climbed on the sled as Humphries strained against the off-beat training tool representing her dogged persistence. “She’s an emotional person at times, though usually not during competition, not during races,” Armbruster said. “You could just tell there was a huge release of emotions. That was the first time I’ve ever seen her tear up during an interview.”The couple won an appeal to relaunch an investigation into alleged treatment by then-coach Todd Hays, who has denied the claims and filed a defamation suit.
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