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Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 20 Jan 2019 09:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Humphries – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Kaillie Humphries files harassment complaint with Bobsleigh Canada https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-files-harassment-complaint-with-bobsleigh-canada/ https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-files-harassment-complaint-with-bobsleigh-canada/#respond Sun, 20 Jan 2019 09:59:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-files-harassment-complaint-with-bobsleigh-canada/

Kaillie Humphries is breaking her silence about why she isn't competing in bobsleigh this year.

Speaking exclusively to CBC, Humphries revealed she has filed a harassment complaint with Bobsleigh Canada.

"I found myself in a position where my workplace environment was impaired and I couldn't compete. I filed it before the season and so I can't talk too much about all of the details and how it goes. Currently the investigation is still going on."

Humphries did not reveal what type of harassment she is alleging.

In a statement emailed to CBC Sports, Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton spokesperson Chris Dornan says the organization is aware of the allegations.

"Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton has been made aware of harassment allegations. Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton abides by its harassment and discrimination policy that has been in place since 2006.

"Under that policy, Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton has forwarded the complaint to an independent investigator. We take any allegations of this nature very seriously. A safe training and competitive environment for everyone involved in our sport is Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton's number one priority.

"This is a highly confidential case. Out of respect to all parties involved, and the process, we will not be commenting further on this matter until the investigation is complete."

Stepping away from bobsleigh

At the beginning of October, Humphries took to Twitter, saying she was stepping away from bobsleigh competition for the year. At that time, the three-time Olympic medallist did not provide any details why — she now says it's directly because of the harassment investigation.

"It definitely it took months for me to build up the courage, for me to have that strength, that internal strength to come forward. I'm a strong person," Humphries said.

"But until you've been challenged with this scenario, such as the one that I have found myself in, you never really know how you're going react to it. It took months to build up the courage to be able to talk about it."

This is the first time in Humphries's career she's not competing. She's a two-time Olympic champion and was named the 2014 Lou Marsh Award winner as the top athlete in Canada. She says after every season she takes time to evaluate how the year went. When she started to critically look at last season, she realized something went really wrong.

WATCH | Kaillie Humphries speaks with CBC Sports host Scott Russell

In an interview with Road to the Olympic Games host Scott Russell, the two-time Olympic women's bobsleigh champion explains why she is taking the year off from competition. 2:40

"I worked very closely with a sports psychologist, somebody who I personally had sought out and who has helped me. I talked to a psychologist every single week [and] we broke down last season," she said.

"I can no longer be silenced because of other people's actions. And I spent all last year doing that without knowing that that's what I was doing. It feels really bad. It feels really wrong. You're not truthful."

'It can happen to anybody'

Humphries says this has been one of the most challenging times in her life, as she continues to train, wondering when she might return to competition at the completion of the investigation. There is no timeline for that to happen at this point. She says she will not return if changes aren't made.

"I will not go back to the same way that it was last year. So if I can build my own team and function independently, still a part of Canada, I will, " she said.  "A lot depends on how the case settles. But I can guarantee you I will not go back to the same way that it was, working with the same people in the same capacity, and open myself up to situations like I faced in the past."

Above all, Humphries says she needed to come forward with this, not only to help rectify her situation, but make it easier for others to come forward as well.

"It can happen to anybody. And that's true. And that was part of my decision for bringing this claim forward," Humphries said. "I'm strong enough to go through this process. I'm strong enough to stand up for what's right."

She's under no illusions about just how big of a step it is to move forward with this harassment case.

"A lot is at stake. For me personally. My entire career is at stake, who I am personally. I'm risking everything to be in this position," she said. "It's not something I take lightly. So yeah, for me personally there's a lot at stake."

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-files-harassment-complaint-with-bobsleigh-canada/feed/ 0 Kaillie Humphries, Phylicia George golden at bobsleigh World Cup https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-phylicia-george-golden-at-bobsleigh-world-cup/ https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-phylicia-george-golden-at-bobsleigh-world-cup/#respond Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:33:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-phylicia-george-golden-at-bobsleigh-world-cup/

Canada’s Kaillie Humphries and Phylicia George scored women’s bobsleigh gold at a World Cup event in Altenberg, Germany, on Saturday.

It’s the first medal captured by the duo, who had teamed up just once before on the World Cup circuit. Humphries and George posted a two-run time of one minute, 52.62 seconds for the win. 

The Canadians were able to claim their 1st gold medal together at the IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup in Altenberg, Germany2:36

Americans Jamie Greubel Poser and Aja Evans took silver with a time of 1:53.31, while the German team of Anna Koehler and Annika Drazek clocked in at 1:53.52 to claim bronze.

Alysia Rissling and Heather Moyse were 10th at 1:54.45 and Christine de Bruin and Cynthia Appiah finished 13th with a time of 1:54.73 to round out the Canadian sleds in the field. 

You can also catch more skeleton and bobsleigh action on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET on Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-phylicia-george-golden-at-bobsleigh-world-cup/feed/ 0 Barry Humphries On The Music That Hitler Banned review: Dadarist art was more fun than law https://briefnews.eu/barry-humphries-on-the-music-that-hitler-banned-review-dadarist-art-was-more-fun-than-law/ https://briefnews.eu/barry-humphries-on-the-music-that-hitler-banned-review-dadarist-art-was-more-fun-than-law/#respond Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:37:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/barry-humphries-on-the-music-that-hitler-banned-review-dadarist-art-was-more-fun-than-law/

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Barry Humphries new show is about his own life, performing cabaret songs from the inter-war period

Comedian, actor and writer Barry Humphries is one of Australia’s finest exports.

Though rarely seen now as his hilarious alter-egos, chat show host Dame Edna Everage or “cultural attaché” Les Patterson, the irreverent performer nonetheless seems to have multiple projects on the go.

He’s 83, thrice divorced, but shows no signs of slowing down.

His to-do list comprises a new one-man show about his own life, performing cabaret songs from the inter-war period at the Barbican next July, and he’s just made a Sky Arts film about the same subject. 

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Entitled Barry Humphries On The Music Hitler Banned, it traces the exiled composers of the late 1920s and the artistic movements condemned by Hitler.

He explores, in his inimitable way, what it was about this rebellious artistic era that drew him in as a child.

It’s a surprising film, as we learn as much about Humphries himself as the composers that inspired him.

Viewers will recognise the name of composer Kurt Weill, but few others “The Nazis,” says Humphries, “did a very good job of obliterating reputations.

There were some creative survivors of the Second World War from Central Europe but the attitude towards original artists – composers, artists, writers – was generally hostile, especially if they happened to be Jewish. 

“So they were forced into exile or concentration camps.”

Inspired to take an interest in these artists from an early age, he says: “When I was growing up in Melbourne we had a lot of refugees who were Jewish, from Austria and Germany. They came as far away as they could and they brought with them sheet music.

“I bought up all the stuff from old bookshops and became very interested in composers whom I had never heard of. I wondered why no one had ever heard of them and, much later, I realised that they had been either murdered or obliterated in some way.”

Humphries is emotional as he travels to Vienna to talk to archivists and those preserving the composers’ memories:“I was unbelievably touched by it, and not least the thought that it happened in my lifetime. I was alive when this was happening; in cosy, old Edna town, down there in Melbourne!”

Humphries was born in 1934 in the pleasant Melbourne “garden suburb” of Kew, where his father was a well-to-do construction manager.

“I actually knew one of the German emigrés who had come out in the early 1930s. She lived just down the road and she gave me stamps for my collection. All of them had pictures of Hitler on them with swastikas and were sent by her husband who was still in Germany. Then one day the stamps stopped coming and even then – I was seven or eight years old – I felt a spooky feeling. It was a serious, sad thing.”

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 The young performer found an outlet with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, which had their foundation in the horrors of the First World War.

“I picked it up at Melbourne University, which did need a bit of livening up! It was also a nice alternative to the law course I was meant to be doing. Little did I know I would be employing lawyers for the rest of my life at extortionate fees.”

His great early achievement in this form was filling a Wellington boot with custard, and entitling it “Pus In Boots”.

Did he consider himself, or Dame Edna, the greatest living Australian?

“Well, she is a very proud, patriotic woman but I don’t know how she would have survived in Nazi Germany.

I’m beginning to think Hitler might have decided she was Jewish.”

Because of her flamboyance?

“Well, Edna says in one of many unreliable autobiographies that she might possibly be Jewish.

She said that, in Australia, shaking anybody’s hand, something is likely to fall off.”

He discusses his mother who, in the film, is quoted as saying: We don’t know where Barry came from.”

He says: “It was a very unkind thing to say. She also said, ‘Barry, not everybody likes you’.

“I think I was very hurt by that. But when your mother says something like that to you, you think it’s true. It doesn’t occur to you that she’s talking absolute rubbish!” 

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She also said: “Don’t look at Barry because he’s trying to draw attention to himself.”

Humphries says: “I thought that would make a great title for my new one-man show! I’m developing the show in Australia and if it does well there I will bring it to the Poms.

“It’s actually going to be called, The Man Behind The Mask. I’m going to be really drawing attention to myself.”

After success in Australia, Humphries came to Britain in 1959, when his path to fame seemed inevitable: “After some success in Oz, I thought, ‘If I stick around I will get too pleased with myself’. “

“My paternal grandfather had come over in the 1880s, from Manchester, so I felt like a salmon returning to the spawning grounds. I had to come home.

“I stayed in a basement flat in the cheapest part of London – Notting Hill. There was still a whiff of the old Blitz around.

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Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage

“There were still bomb sites and the murderer Christie had just finished his horrible deeds in his little house. I was auditioning by day and working in an ice cream factory by night in Acton.” Did he feel like he was an exile?

“It’s a potent theme but I refused to join a huddle of Australians in Earls Court. I didn’t want to be with a bunch of Aussies complaining about the British. It was anti-British nonsense.” How long before he felt like a “Pom”?

“By the late Sixties I was on the Parkinson chat show, writing for Private Eye and a friend of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore – and doing a show with Spike Milligan.

“Peter Cook in particular gave me a leg up. So did Milligan. Cook was very generous to people like me. But he could pick talent, you see! 

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“Comedy is a question of confidence. As I got more confident, I became funnier. The expression ‘stand-up’ hadn’t been used at that point but I guess I was one. I was more of a sit-down comedian! 

“I was good on my own and could do a one-man show without any other performers. A lot of what I did was improvised but radio I always liked and television I came to enjoy.”

He seems talented at most things.

“I’m very bad at maths and not very good at sports. I’m quite old and I attribute my long life and good health to no exercise of any kind. Some people I knew who were good at exercise have died. Don’t you do it.”

He adds: “I never thought I would be a comic. Now I’m a veteran comedian, just like the British comics I saw in Melbourne when I was a boy.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/barry-humphries-on-the-music-that-hitler-banned-review-dadarist-art-was-more-fun-than-law/feed/ 0 Kaillie Humphries, Melissa Lotholz win silver at Park City World Cup https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-melissa-lotholz-win-silver-at-park-city-world-cup/ https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-melissa-lotholz-win-silver-at-park-city-world-cup/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:49:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-melissa-lotholz-win-silver-at-park-city-world-cup/

Kallie Humphries and brakeman Melissa Lotholz won silver at the women’s World Cup event at Park City, Utah on Friday.

The Canadian duo got off to a motoring star, with a 50.42 in their first run, and finish with a total of 1:40:82. 

It was Humphries and Lotholz’s second straight medal, having captured gold at the season opener in Lake Placid earlier this month.

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The pair were looking to defend their course title – after winning gold at Park City in 2016 – but were unable to hold off a strong challenge by American’s Jamie Greubel-Poser and Lauren Gibbs.

The Americans, having taken the lead in the first heat with a 50.32, never looked back, finishing with a 1:40:72 to capture their first World Cup win of the season. 

“It was a really great day overall for our program and I’m happy we were able to get on the podium,” said Humphries, who pumped her fist at the finish line after matching the fastest second-run. “I was really happy with the second run. I hadn’t seen the times, but I knew the pushes were better and we held our spot.

“I’m trying to enjoy the process of competing as the stress gets higher. I need to remember it is just bobsledding so I want to make sure I’m having fun and be grateful for getting to do what I have a passion for doing. I was happy with how we did and showed that excitement when we crossed the line.”

Elana Meyers Taylor and Lolo Jones, also of the United States, finished third with a total of 1:40:99.

Including the 2014 Sochi Olympics, it was the 13th time that Greubel-Poser, Humphries and Meyers Taylor – the top three drivers on tour – swept the podium spots in an international race. 

Canada’s Alysia Rissling and Kristen Bujnowski finished 7th with a total of 1:41:98.

Kripps rallies to silver

In the four-man bobsleigh Canada, for the first time ever, celebrated two podium finishes, taking silver and bronze in the  season-opener. 

For Justin Kripps, Lascelles Brown, Ben Coakwell and Neville Bright it was very nearly gold.

The crew were in 10th place after the first Heat, but everything changed after their blistering second run rally left them with a total of 1:36:83.

Justin Kripps takes 4-man bobsleigh silver1:45

A total that Germany’s Nico Walther, Kevin Kuske, Christian Poser and Eric Franke managed to beat by just 0.03 seconds, to swoop ahead with a combined 1:36:80.

“We climbed the ladder today and it was awesome,” laughed Kripps following the race. “I think we got hit a bit by the weather in the first heat. In that second run, I was having trouble controlling the sled, but I think I hit that middle part of the track really good and just made up a lot of time on the field.”

It was the sixth World Cup medal for Kripps in his career, and only his second in the featured four-man event. He also won a silver medal in the two-man event last weekend at the World Cup season-opener in Lake Placid.

Canada also got bronze thanks to Chris Spring, Jesse Lumsden, Alex Kopacz and rookie Seyi Smith, who rounded out the podium with their 1:36.86.

Chris Spring earns 4-man bobsleigh bronze in Park City1:09

The four-man event was original supposed to take place last week but got delayed due to weather-related concerns. 

Live coverage continues on CBCSports.ca on Saturday with the women’s (12:30 p.m. ET, 3:30 p.m. ET) and men’s skeleton (2 p.m. ET, 4:30 p.m. ET) and more four-man bobsleigh (6 p.m. ET, 7:30 p.m. ET).

You can also catch more bobsleigh action on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET on Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-melissa-lotholz-win-silver-at-park-city-world-cup/feed/ 0 The hot seat: Everyone wants to ride with Kaillie Humphries https://briefnews.eu/the-hot-seat-everyone-wants-to-ride-with-kaillie-humphries/ https://briefnews.eu/the-hot-seat-everyone-wants-to-ride-with-kaillie-humphries/#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:56:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-hot-seat-everyone-wants-to-ride-with-kaillie-humphries/ As the Winter Games in Pyeongchang approach at breakneck speed, one of the most coveted rides to Korea is still up for grabs.

Who will take a back seat to two-time gold medallist and Canadian bobsleigh pilot Kaillie Humphries?

The winner of the competition to be Humphries’s brakeman will get a golden opportunity to claim an Olympic medal. And as the World Cup season gets rolling Friday (CBCSports.ca, 12:30 p.m. ET) in Lake Placid, N.Y., site of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, there’s still plenty of room to manoeuver.

The incumbent is a 24-year-old farm girl and former University of Alberta sprinter from Barrhead, Alta., by the name of Melissa Lotholz.  

She’s been behind Humphries for the last two world championships and turned in silver-medal performances on both occasions. She’s won an overall World Cup title with Humphries and was part of the first four-woman crew on the World Cup circuit, in 2016. Since the last Olympics in Sochi she’s provided the push for Humphries.

But it seems, in this game, nothing’s a given. Nobody is owed a seat in the No. 1 sled for Canada.

“That’s a dangerous place to be and you have to check yourself if you believe it’s the case that you are owed anything,” Lotholz said from Lake Placid, where she’ll be pushing for Humphries in the season opener.

“It’s a super-competitive team and everyone needs to earn their spot, including me. This would be a privilege to find myself in that position at the Olympic Games.”

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Lotholz, left, and Humphries have made for a solid tandem, taking silver at each of the last two world championships. (Arno Burgi/dpa via Associated Press)

Getting back together?

Indeed, there are several contenders for the seat.

Cynthia Appiah, another sprinter from Ontario, came on last season to challenge Lotholz’s stranglehold on the ride in Canada 1. Then there’s the return of Heather Moyse to consider. Moyse, who’s back in the sport after taking time off, was the brakeman for Humphries in 2010 and 2014 when the duo won gold in Vancouver and Sochi.

This time Moyse says she’s there to help a younger pilot if she makes the team. But Humphries hasn’t closed the door on a reunion.

“At the end of the day, it’s down to the coaching staff, it’s down to Bobsleigh Canada to choose the best people,” Humphries told CBC Sports on the day the World Cup team was announced.

That means there are others in the mix, including bobsleigh neophyte and Olympic hurdler Phylicia George. As a matter of fact, Humphries, who is always in the driver’s seat regardless, doesn’t care who powers her down the track, just so long as that person gets her out of the gate faster than anybody else.

It means personality and compatibility mean next to nothing when it comes to this ticket to ride.

And Lotholz is fine with that.

“We respect that kind of thinking a lot,” she said, without hesitation.

“The worst thing that can happen is that a decision is made based upon friendship or that it is motivated by political considerations. You respect this kind of decision when it comes down to a pure numbers game. It’s all about numbers and standards and it means you know exactly what you need to do.”

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Humphries, left, won two consecutive Olympic gold medals with Heather Moyse, who despite taking time away from the sport remains a candidate to join Humphries’s sled in Korea. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)

‘I’d be crushed’

In spite of the fact that she’s being hounded by rivals who want her place at the Olympic table, Lotholz feels empowered by the prospect of winning the competition just to get to Korea in the right position.

“It’s a struggle but it’s a challenge,” she acknowledged.  

“It’s a double-edged sword in this sport. It’s about the head game. Mentally, you have to do something with all the pieces that you’ve been given. It’s cool. If you choose to let it, it can beat you down. Or, on the other hand, it can make you better.”

Such is the reality on a powerhouse Canadian team that has the possibility of qualifying three women’s sleds to these Olympics.  

So far, pilots Humphries and Alyisa Rissling are in. Christine de Bruin still has to make the grade, but chances appear to be good given the quality of her driving and the bevy of brakemen who could provide the power.

But the top spot, the one in the sled behind Humphries, has Lotholz and the others licking their chops.

“If it wasn’t me, I’d be crushed,” Lotholz admitted. “But I hope this is about something more than me. To be a part of Team Canada at the biggest event in the world would be a reward in itself. It could be in the first, second or third Canadian sled or it could be supporting from the sidelines as the alternate. But it would be very cool to be a part of such a powerful team at the Olympics.”

Seeds for success

The precedent exists that the incumbent doesn’t get the job.

Prior to the Sochi 2014 Olympics, Chelsea Valois helped Humphries win five straight races on the World Cup tour and a world championship title in St. Moritz. In the autumn prior to those Olympics, Heather Moyse returned, won the spot as the No. 1 brakeman, and Valois wound up pushing the second Canadian sled piloted by Jenny Ciochetti in Russia.

While Moyse won gold again with Humphries, Valois finished 13th with Ciochetti.

For Lotholz, that prospect is at once daunting and motivating.

“Yes, there is the emotional piece of devastation,” she granted. “But just like the sunshine and the rain, the challenges make us grow.”

She did, after all, grow up on a farm. And as the dead of winter approaches, when most fields lie barren, Lotholz relies on a simple philosophy for success.

“It’s just like my family. Each year we’d plant seeds,” she reckoned. “And we continue to get closer and closer, and in spite of the rain and all the things that can threaten the crop we keep working harder and harder, trusting that in the end there will be a harvest.” 

Nothing is guaranteed. Not in life or in sport.

In the end, you have to earn the right to sit in the hot seat at the Olympics.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-hot-seat-everyone-wants-to-ride-with-kaillie-humphries/feed/ 0 Bobsleigh's Humphries would welcome reunion with Olympic partner Moyse https://briefnews.eu/bobsleighs-humphries-would-welcome-reunion-with-olympic-partner-moyse/ https://briefnews.eu/bobsleighs-humphries-would-welcome-reunion-with-olympic-partner-moyse/#respond Thu, 02 Nov 2017 01:54:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bobsleighs-humphries-would-welcome-reunion-with-olympic-partner-moyse/ It’s almost becoming reality TV: Who will get the rose from Kaillie Humphries to ride in her sled and compete for bobsleigh gold at the PyeongChang Olympics?

In the past, it’s been Heather Moyse, with whom Humphries won gold at both the Vancouver and Sochi Games. But when Moyse retired following the 2014 season, it appeared as though the chance at a golden three-peat was gone. 

Plot twist. Last month Moyse announced her comeback, only this time she hoped to team with Edmonton driver Alysia Rissling. This came as a surprise to Humphries, who months earlier had had her own invitation to Moyse to turned down.

Now as the World Cup season nears and the drama intensifies, Humphries says she isn’t ruling out having Moyse in her sled should the situation allow.

“I’m open to any scenario,” Humphries said. “I want the best brakeman behind me regardless of personal feelings or attributes. I want numbers and stats and I want the best person in my sled.”

Moyse has said she wants to make one last Olympic push to help inspire and motivate the next wave of bobsleigh athletes in the country.

“It’s about investing in the future generation of athletes,” Moyse told CBC Sports in September. “Yes, my aim is to make the team. Ideally I’d like to make qualification, get in a sled and help a young driver succeed.”

That young driver she’s identified is Rissling of Edmonton. Rissling emailed Moyse in August to consider a comeback.,

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Heather Moyse is looking to make a comeback as a brakeman after retiring in 2014. (Christopher Katsarov/Canadian Press)

“I had never met her, but I was intrigued by how passionate and determined she was,” Moyse said. “It made me think that a comeback is within the realm of possibility and if I can help — then I’m going to try.”

While Humphries and others prepare for the World Cup season, Moyse continues her comeback in Calgary, trying to regain her strength. Right now it’s about building muscle because she’s essentially been away from the gym and training for more than three years.

Humphries says she’ll start the World Cup season with Melissa Lotholz as her brakeman. The two have spent the past three seasons racing together and just missed winning gold at last season’s world championships. But Humphries has also traveled down the track with Cynthia Appiah. And there’s also Canadian track star-turned bobsleigh athlete Phylicia George in the mix.

“Melissa and Cynthia are very close,” Humphries said. “They both have and bring different qualities. Those are the top two girls we have the program currently right now.

“Phylicia has a lot of what I don’t have. The speed. The stride length. I can bring the strength. She also brings the experience. She’s been to two Games. She knows how to prepare herself.”

Basically, each World Cup is now a tryout to see who can post the best times and win the right to slide with Humphries at the Games. And if that wasn’t enough pressure, the team is also holding what they’re calling “pushoffs.” They did two pushoffs at Whistler earlier this year.

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Humphries with current brakeman, Mellisa Lotholz, after winning silver at the world championships in February. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via/Associated Press)

“In the first two tests in Whistler, Melissa was victorious by 1/100th of a second,” Humphries said. “And that matters. Every hundredth counts. At the end of the day though chances are I’ll be doing World Cups with both of them.”

Both Humphries and Moyse have talked about the “competitive environment” this situation has created and they believe it will make everyone better. Moyse is still a number of weeks away from going down the track and testing her strength and speed. In the interim, the other athletes will try and prove their belong in the sled with Humphries. 

Humphries is making very clear it isn’t about personalities.

“It’s not about who I like better,” she said. “I don’t care how you brush your teeth or if we can room together. I don’t care about anything other than your strength and speed.”

She also says it’ll be a collective decision reached between athletes and coaches that will inevitably determined who is in what sled. 

“That’ll be up to the coaching staff. None of these decisions will be solely left to the athletes,” Humphries said. “That’ll be left to Bobsleigh Canada as a whole.”

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Two-time Olympic bobsleigh champion Kaillie Humphries says her initial reaction was “surprise” after learning her longtime brakeman Heather Moyse was making a comeback to the sport.

“I had approached Heather in March asking if she would consider making a comeback to the sport to see if we could re-unite for another Olympic run,” Humphries said. “She informed me later she wasn’t motivated to do it again and I am okay with that as the current brakeman we have will make it hard to earn a spot as they are motivated.”

Humphries said she found out on Friday about Moyse’s comeback when a coaching member from Bobsleigh Canada called to tell her.

The two captured Olympic gold in back-to-back Games in Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014. 

Despite her initial surprise, Humphries said she’s taking it in stride and in some respects was mentally preparing for this.

“This was a similar approach leading into Sochi 2014, so I’m prepared for it through experience,” she said. “Heading into this season on separate teams will be a new experience but one I have planned for.”

Heather Moyse announces she is returning to bobsleigh competition2:07

In the fall of 2013 before Sochi, Moyse came back from a shoulder injury and turned an unlikely training camp appearance into another gold medal with Humphries.

“We’ve done some great things together as teammates,” Humphries said. “Every sport is stronger anytime a champion returns. I applaud Heather’s decision to return to bobsleigh. I think it’s great for the team.”

Now the two will be competing against one another and Moyse has said she was concerned and somewhat hesitant about how it would go over.

“It’s never been an easy thing to do, to come in and compete for a job with somebody else,” Moyse said. “I think initially there will be a bit of hesitation and nervousness on the part of others. That’s natural. It’s tough but it’s a part of what it means to be an Olympic athlete. I hope it will spark some drive and a positive, competitive environment.”

Humphries agrees with Moyse.

“The motto of Bobsleigh Canada is based around ‘building world and Olympic champions’ which is something I have become with their help,” Humphries said.

“I believe it’s very important to build that next generation along the way, which is why I have chosen to remain apart of this team and why I fight so hard for the women’s four-man event in the Olympics. I want to see this sport, and women’s competition within Canada and around the world, reach new heights and be allowed every opportunity to be great.”

‘I feel I’m in the greatest shape of my life’

Humphries said her planning and training is not going to be affected by Moyse’s return, stating she’s been dedicated to working with Cynthia Appiah and Melissa Lotholz for the past three-plus years. She has also been working with Canadian track athlete Phylicia George.

“My focus remains on working with the women who have the same goals as I do,” Humphries said.

“We focus on the top of the podium, pushing ourselves to the limits individually and together, mentally and physically, so that we may realize our dreams.”

Humphries started her high-intensity training for this season on May 1. It marks her 15th year competing in bobsleigh and while she said there is a certain toll that has taken on her body, she’s ready to give her best at another Olympics.

“I feel I’m in the greatest shape of my life,” she said. “With age comes a maturity and wisdom that brings confidence in myself and my teammates. I’m ready to face any challenge that lay before me. I’m focused on the top of the podium in 2018 and bringing home gold for Canada.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-surprised-by-heather-moyses-bobsleigh-return/feed/ 0 Kaillie Humphries is still searching for the perfect start https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-is-still-searching-for-the-perfect-start/ https://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-is-still-searching-for-the-perfect-start/#respond Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:20:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kaillie-humphries-is-still-searching-for-the-perfect-start/ Kaillie Humphries is the first to say she had a rough year.

The Canadian bobsleigh star speaks without restraint the day after returning home from the season’s final World Cup event.

“No season is perfect,” Humphries says from Calgary, with her usual resolute tone.

“You gotta go through those hard years, and those rough years, and this year for me was one of them.” 

To be fair, the two-time Olympic champion has high standards.

Though she won two races and finished on the podium at five of the eight World Cup stops this season, Humphries failed to defend her title.

She came into last week’s season finale in Pyeongchang, South Korea — which doubled as an Olympic test event — leading the World Cup rankings. But a disappointing fifth-place finish, coupled with a win by Jamie Greubel-Poser, gave the title to the U.S. pilot.

Humphries was also beaten by three hundredths of a second by American rival/friend Elana Meyers Taylor at the world championships in February.

The Canadian admits to being thrown off by the shifted schedule this season. The event in Pyeongchang demanded a later start to the World Cup season, and almost three months on the road. 

“The hardest part about this season was just the length of time away,” says the 31-year-old, who says it was the longest travel period in her 14 years on the World Cup tour.  

“Everybody by the end of the season was just ready to call it quits.” 

Yet the Calgarian says she beared down while at the 2018 Olympic track in Korea.

Even with their bodies breaking down, she and breakman Melissa Lotholz drove the track as much as possible. She says coming fifth at the event wasn’t a surprise to her.

“It was never about the finish,” Humphries says. “We went into it knowing it was about learning that track for the Games.”

The extra training days also verified one particular hypothesis.

“We knew the start was going to be important in Korea,” says Humphries. “Having been there, now we realize how important the start is. Definitely the brakemen are going to play a huge part at the Olympics.”

Brakeman auditions continue

A bobsleigh start is where the pilot and brakeman thrust the sled forward before hopping in.

It lasts around five seconds, with the intensity of a rugby scrum, and can make or break a run. 

The ideal brakeman has quickness, power and size — qualities possessed by Heather Moyse, who helped push Humphries to both Olympic gold medals but is now retired.

Lotholz, from Barrhead, Alb., has been filling the role for Humphries for most of the last three seasons.  

Toronto’s Cynthia Appiah also pushed for Humphries at four World Cups this season.

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Kaillie Humphries, right, and brakeman Melissa Lotholz gained some valuable Olympic intel despite their disappointing showing at the World Cup finale in South Korea. (Arno Burgi/dpa via Associated Press)

“The last three years I’ve seen Melissa and Cynthia come a long way from where they started, which is amazing to see,” says Humphries. 

“Knowing next year is the Olympic year and how important the start is, I know there’s a lot more that they need to grow and that they need to learn for us to defend the title.”

Humphries is unapologetically selective when it comes to the business of winning.

“I don’t sacrifice the way I do [things] for friendship or fun,” she says. “I do it to win.” 

She has talked with Olympic sprinter Phylicia George, and is eager to seek out other world-class athletes in hopes of finding the person who can optimize her start times for Pyeongchang 2018.   

“At the end of the day my brakeman for next year is going to be chosen on numbers,” says Humphries. 

“The fastest two girls that we have come October will battle it out throughout the season, and the Olympic brakeman will get chosen about a month before the Games.”

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Who is Chris Mason?

Chris was born in Liverpool, but now lives in Los Angeles.

The 26-year-old has racked up an impressive acting CV despite never formally training as an actor.

Chris says that one of his “biggest lessons” was watching his Legend co-stars Tom Hardy, Christopher Eccleston and Paul Bettany.

Chris played Ronnie Hart in the Kray twins biopic, which starred Hardy as both Ronnie and Reggie Kray.

“I never trained at drama school so for me I think that was one of the biggest lessons,” Chris told Liverpool Echo. 

“Especially watching Tom Hardy, I was so lucky to go from doing that to my first lead role [in Between Two Worlds] because I took on board what he was like on set and how he handled himself, and how he cared for the script.”

What has Chris Mason been in?

Chris’ acting debut was in British legal drama Justice, in which he played a drug pusher named Peter.

His next role was in the BBC Three supernatural drama The Fades, which he followed with stints in ITV’s Lightfields and US fashion drama Model Woman – which was never ordered to series.

After Legend, Chris won the lead role in Between Two Worlds, a British film which also starred Lucien Laviscount and rapper Example.

The film was shot in Chris’ native Liverpool. He called the part a “gift”, explaining: “It’s a young Scouser who moves to London and finds it tough. 

“I know what it feels like to go back to Liverpool, when you go home and step off at Lime Street and you see the Liver Birds in the distance – it’s a lovely city to come back to.”

Chris has also starred in films such as Vampire Academy and Break opposite the late Sir John Hurt.

In 2016 Chris played the lead role in Wonderkid, a short film about the inner turmoil of a young gay football player.

The film won praise from LGBTQ charity Stonewall and gay magazine Attitude, with Chris calling the short “important”.

Does Chris Mason have a girlfriend?

Chris is engaged to marry skincare consultant Spencer Locke.

The pair have reportedly been an item since 2015, and got engaged in 2016.

Chris and Spencer reportedly plan to marry later this year, and regularly share pictures of their lives on Instagram.

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