From the maple leaf to the 50 stars.
With Kaillie Humphries, 36, the flag changes but not the metal.
The bobsleigh star, who has reigned over the discipline for more than ten years, added a new Olympic medal on Monday - his third after those won in 2010 and 2014 with Canada - to his huge list.
But this time, under the American tunic...
Dominant in the monobob final, an unprecedented discipline at the Winter Games, she thus became the first bobsledder to win two Olympic medals with two different nations.
An international story that began sixteen years ago, during the 2006 Turin Games, as a brakewoman.
1-2 IN THE DEBUT.
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— Team USA (@TeamUSA) February 14, 2022
After marching with Canada during the opening ceremony, she learns that she will not participate in the competitions.
A terrible disappointment for the one who will become a pilot and will experience her first Olympiad four years later in Vancouver (Canada), in her country of origin.
A complaint against a Canadian coach originally
It was on home soil that she won her first gold medal in the 2-man bobsleigh with her partner Heather Moyse, before doing it again in 2014, in Sochi, and adding a bronze charm in 2018, with her new partner. , Phylicia George... A dream that will then turn into a nightmare.
A few months later, Kaillie Humphries filed a moral harassment complaint against a Canadian coach.
She then affirms her desire to wear the colors of the United States, country of her husband Travis Armbruster, former international bobsleigh, where she has lived since 2016.
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Authorized at the end of 2019 to compete with the United States in the World Cup, Kaillie Humphries then battles to obtain her new nationality, a condition for her participation in the Beijing Olympics.
The good news will fall last December, two months before the opening ceremony.
Very active on social networks, where she likes to tell her daily life as an athlete, the American shared her joy after her new title: “Dreams really come true.
It's an incredible feeling to win the first Olympic women's monobob event and write the history of the United States.
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The nine-time world medalist therefore offers a new gold charm to the USA, which consolidates their place on the podium of the medal table.
She beat another American, Elana Meyers Taylor, 37, and Canadian Christine de Bruin, 32, in the race.
The French, Margot Boch, 22, finished eleventh.