We’re getting closer and closer to the final runs for monobob.<\/p>\n
Much has been made about this new Cortina track, which Olympic organizers rushed to finish before the 2026 Games started. Kaillie Humphries has the distinction of being the only sliding athlete to race on both the old and new Cortina track.<\/p>\n
Humphries said the old Cortina track was \u201carguably one of the hardest tracks in the entire circuit\u201d and that \u201ca lot of people did not walk away from that track.\u201d But learning on that track early in her career, she said, helped make her a better driver (Humphries is widely considered the best pilot in the world, and the best women\u2019s bobsledder in the sport\u2019s history).<\/p>\n
This new track presents its own challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first two turns are some of the most technically difficult, hard to come through, more specifically in monobob which is different compared to most tracks,\u201d she said. \u201cMonobob is usually easier because it just turns on a dime and flips around but in these (Cortina) corners it literally whips around, and you kinda fishtail \u2026 it will definitely make a difference in the result with how you drive those corners.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re getting closer and closer to the final runs for monobob. Much has been made about this new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-472559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}