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What It's Like To Be...

An Olympic Bobsledder

What It's Like To Be...

Dan Heath

Curiosity, Jobs, Careers, Business, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Human Interest

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 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? GOT A COMMENT OR SUGGESTION? Email us at [email protected] WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW? Leave us a voicemail at (919) 213-0456. We’ll ask you to answer two questions: 1. What’s a word or phrase that only someone from ...

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0:00.0

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

0:04.0

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

0:09.1

because there are only around a dozen bobsled tracks in the world,

0:13.1

and one of them is in Calgary.

0:15.2

I'm a product of an Olympic legacy.

0:18.0

The city I grew up in had a track.

0:19.8

It was the 88 Olympics bobsled

0:22.0

track, which for most people, that's the Cool Runnings Olympics. Cool runnings, for those of you

0:26.6

who weren't around in the early 90s, was a Disney movie based on a Jamaican bobsled team that

0:32.1

competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics.

0:35.6

It's bobsled time. Cool running!

0:40.2

So Kaylee had the benefit of having access to an actual bobsled track.

0:45.5

But she also had another thing going for her.

0:48.2

I've always been a big, strong female athlete.

0:51.3

I've always had really big legs, been really powerful.

0:53.4

And when I grew up ski

0:54.9

racing and I wanted to switch to something else, then I thought, well, Bob Sled maybe is an option

0:59.6

or speed skating. And Bob sled was just the first sport that I tried to see if I even liked it,

1:04.2

could be good at it. And yeah, the rest is history. Olympic history. She's the first woman to win a gold medal for two different countries,

1:14.2

and she won the gold medal in the first ever Monobobab event.

1:18.3

Team USA and Kaylee Humphreys in her first Olympics for the Stars and Stripes.

1:24.7

It's a golden moment.

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