Unmatchable Humphries lays down Olympic bobsleigh gauntlet with World Cup crown
BySportsbeat
Published 20/01/2018 at 21:13 GMT
Two-time Olympic champion and now four-time overall winner of the World Cup, Kaillie Humphries could hardly be in a better position to defend her bobsleigh title in PyeongChang.
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The Canadian has topped the podium at the last two Olympic Winter Games – and few would look past her after another starring performance on the ice.
A second-place finish in the last race of the season saw Humphries confirm what was otherwise already determined, topping the overall table following a solid display in Koenigssee.
Alongside Phylicia George, the 32-year-old finished 0.29 seconds behind winners Stephanie Schneider and Annika Drazek, dominating in both runs to end their seasons on a high.
Runs of 50.78s and 50.57s did the damage for the Germans, while Elana Meyers Taylor and Lauren Gibbs rounded off the podium.
But the American pair had been second at the halfway stage, 0.03s off a silver medal this time around.
The seventh podium in eight races was enough for Meyers Taylor to finish second in the overall standings however, 40 points adrift of Humphries' 1,631.
British interest lay with Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas, with the two somehow avoiding a spectacular crash in the first run, stopping the clock in 19th place.
They held it together in the second however, finishing more than half a second quicker from their first effort to move up two places into 17th.
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