Kaillie Humphries of the United States led at the halfway mark of the first-ever Olympic monobob event in Yanqing, with the two-time gold medallist opening up a yawning 1.04 second gap between her and Canada's Christine de Bruin in second.
Monobob is one of seven new events at the Beijing Games and the only one exclusively for women, with drivers pushing a 130-kg sled as fast as they can before jumping in and barrelling down an icetrack at speeds up to 120 kph .
It would be Humphries' first gold for the United States - her previous two were with her birth country Canada, but she switched teams and citizenship after filing a harassmentAs the reigning World Cup champion in both the monobob and two-woman bobsleigh events, she was favourite going into the race. Drivers were trying to adapt to a much colder track at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre on Sunday morning, with temperatures dropping to -7 Celsius compared with positive numbers in the days before.
However, 14 of the 20 competitors in the monobob are also racing in the two-woman event, in part because the event's quota system gives extra points to participants in the other discipline."I think the intention is there but the execution has failed, the system has failed us as athletes ... we really need to take a step back and think about what the objective is."
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