The former Canadian bobsled heroine is an Olympic gold medalist for the third time — and for the first time, as a U.S. citizen
Publish date:BEIJING — Kaillie Humphries crossed the finish line, jumped from her sled and threw an American flag in the air.Four years ago, nobody would have seen that coming. .
Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. was second in 4:20.81 — 1.54 seconds back — for her fourth Olympic medal, one that came after she took a year off following the Pyeongchang Games to become a mother. Christine de Bruin of Canada was third in 4:21.03. Humphries became the first woman to win Olympic gold medals for two different countries, and the first Olympian to win gold for both the U.S. and Canada. She also is the first woman to win three golds in bobsledding, with a chance for a fourth later this week in the two-person event.
And the last time any Olympic bobsled race saw such a margin between first place and second place was 42 years ago, when Erich Schärer of Switzerland won the two-man event at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics by 1.57 seconds.“I pretend like I’m not the best,” Humphries said. “That’s what makes me work so hard.”
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