Interview: Kaillie Humphries, Bobsledding Legend on Overcoming Emotional Abuse from a Coach

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jessica interviews bobsledding legend Kaillie Humphries about her career, training and competing in the time of COVID, and the fallout from her reporting emotional and mental abuse by her former head coach when she was on Team Canada. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need. Jessica here.
0:56.5	This week, I talk with Kaylee Humphreys, a bobsledding legend.
0:59.8	She won the gold medal in the two-woman bobsled for Canada at the 2010 and the 2014 Olympics.
1:05.9	Prior to the 2018-19 season, Humphreys came forward about the harassment she faced from the governing body of
1:11.3	professional Canadian bobsledding and specifically her coach Todd Hayes. She filed a lawsuit to be released
1:16.7	from Canada's national team last September and has now joined Team USA. Recently, at the World
1:22.7	Championships in Germany, in representing the U.S., she won both the one woman, as the Monobobob and the two woman bobsledding crowns.
1:30.7	She will be competing in the Olympics with the U.S. team for the first time in 2022.
1:35.2	That's next year.
1:36.7	But let me let her tell you who she is.
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