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Canada slides to gold

Canadian bobsled star Kaillie Humphries added another gold medal to her trophy case Saturday, finishing first in the season-opening World Cup on the track where she won her first Olympic gold six years ago.

Humphries, of Calgary, and brakeman Cynthia Appiah of Toronto had a two-run total time of one minute 46.53 seconds at the Whistler Sliding Center, also breaking the track's start record Humphries previously set during the 2010 Olympic Games with a push time of 5.09 seconds.

It was Humphries' and Appiah's first race as a pair, and Appiah's first-ever appearance in a two-woman World Cup event.

"I'm just really happy with how Cynthia and I performed," said Humphries. "I had two good runs from the driving perspective, we pushed really well - a start record - so overall that's more what I'm excited about, regardless of the result. It was a tough race and tough competition…. I love this place, this is my favourite track on tour, so great to start off on a win but I'm more happy with our performance than anything."

"I'm pretty excited," Appiah added. "I was like a ball of nerves at the top before that first run, and then once I got that push, I was like, okay, now I know what I'm doing, this is my role and I've done it well."

As for breaking a track record in her first two-woman World Cup race, "it's crazy," Appiah said.

"I had a goal coming into this race that I wanted to break that record and I didn't want to be confident because anything could happen on race day, but once we got down and I actually hit the number that I said I wanted to hit… and now we've come away with the gold medal, it sets up the season so well."

It was the 18th victory and 38th World Cup medal for Humphries.



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