Expectations are high as Team Canada kick off a new bobsled and skeleton World Cup season in Whistler on Thursday.
Cynthia Appiah and Dawn Richardson Wilson of Canada, start the women's bobsleigh heat 3 at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Dmitri Lovetsky
“The opportunity is there to continue on with that momentum that was created,” Appiah said. “I’ve got a target on my back.”Several veterans bobsledders retired after last year’s Beijing Games, including two-time Olympic medallist Justin Kripps and his teammates Ryan Sommer and Cameron Stone. Fellow pilot Chris Spring won’t compete this season after undergoing knee surgery in April.
There are changes on the women’s side, too, after pilot Christine de Bruin — who won Olympic bronze in Beijing — was handed a three-year suspension for a doping violation earlier this month.More than 70 current and former bobsled and skeleton athletes began calling for change within Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton last March, citing what they called a toxic environment of maltreatment within the organization.
“I’d be lying if I said it didn’t impact me,” she said. “But one of the things that any athlete will tell you is that you have to be resilient, and you have to be able to pivot and move on to the next direction and continue onward.
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