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RSS FeedsBruce Arthur: Bobsled champion Kaillie Humphries has almost nowhere to turn after courtroom power play hits the wall
(The Star Movies)

 
 

18 september 2019 16:15:03

 
Bruce Arthur: Bobsled champion Kaillie Humphries has almost nowhere to turn after courtroom power play hits the wall
(The Star Movies)
 


True to her nature, Kaillie Humphries tried. She made it clear at the 2018 Olympics that she was not happy with Canada’s bobsled program. Later that year, she filed a harassment claim against her coach. This year, she filed a lawsuit in the hopes of forcing an exit from Canada to compete for the United States. The lawsuit wasn’t even the equivalent of a bobsled crashing; it was like trying to drive a bobsled on a highway. Still, the three-time Olympic medallist gave it a go. As someone who knows her well once said, she sees almost everyone as competition.And today Kaillie Humphries should be looking around at piles of ash and wondering, at age 34, if she has run out of bridges to burn. “She doesn’t even have any bridges,” said one current member of the bobsled program who was granted anonymity due to worries over Humphries’s willingness to retaliate. “She’s on an island.”The two-time Canadian women’s bobsled gold medallist failed to secure an immediate release from the Canadian program in a Calgary courtroom on Tuesday, one day after it was revealed that her harassment case against Canadian bobsleigh head coach Todd Hays was found to be without merit. She must be released by Bobsleigh Canada before Sept. 30 if she wants to compete for the Americans this year. She is running out of options. Forget for a moment that Bobsleigh Canada would set a troubling precedent by releasing an elite athlete to a richer nation and program based on unsupported claims. Perhaps the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation would intervene; the existing architecture of sports resolution in Canada is the only other way for Humphries to force a release from Canada. Her lawyer, Jeff Rath, said they would pursue an appeal. But why would anybody grant it? On what basis? Rath threw a lot of dirt into the air Tuesday, loudly protesting that this was a “pretty dark day, and certainly not keeping in where I thought we we ...


 
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