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What It's Like To Be... with Dan Heath

An Olympic Bobsledder (Replay)

What It's Like To Be... with Dan Heath

Dan Heath

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4.9820 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hurtling down an ice track at nearly 100mph, perfecting the practice of visualization, and shaving off hundredths of a second with Kaillie Humphries, an Olympic bobsledder. What's the most feared track in the world? And how do athletes practice when there's no ice in the summer? This episode originally aired on December 17th, 2024. WANT MORE EPISODE SUGGESTIONS? Grab our What It's Like To Be... "starter pack". It's a curated Spotify playlist with some essential episodes from our back cat...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Dan here with some happy news. So back in episode 34 of this show, we interviewed Kaylee

0:07.7

Humphreys, an Olympic bobsledder. And guess what? She's competing in the 2026 Winter Games,

0:13.5

and just yesterday, she won bronze in the monobob. That's the one-person bo Bob sled. That is her fifth medal across five different

0:23.0

Olympics. Did I mention she's 40 years old and just had a kid two years ago? So anyway, Matt and I

0:30.3

thought it would be fun to rebroadcast this episode to celebrate Kaylee's medal. She's so good at

0:36.7

describing what it's like to compete in this sport.

0:39.4

I really like this one.

0:41.0

And if you'd like to watch her in real time, you did not miss your chance.

0:45.6

There's another event, the two-person bobsled, that's coming up soon.

0:49.7

So check your Olympic schedule and tune in.

0:53.0

And we will be back with another new episode as planned next week.

0:57.8

Here we go.

1:00.3

Kaylee Humphreys grew up in the city of Calgary and Canada.

1:04.2

It was a great place for a future Olympic gold medalist in bobsledding to be born,

1:09.2

because there are only around a dozen bobsled tracks

1:12.0

in the world and one of them is in Calgary.

1:15.8

I'm a product of an Olympic legacy.

1:18.5

The city I grew up in had a track.

1:20.3

It was the 88 Olympics bobsled track, which for most people, that's the Cool Runnings

1:24.6

Olympics.

1:25.6

Cool runnings, for those of you who weren't around in the early 90s, was a Disney movie

1:29.8

based on a Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics.

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