Bobsledder Humphries left Canada over alleged abuse. The move might cost her an Olympics.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Kaillie Humphries, the world's most successful female bobsled driver, lives an American life with her American husband in an American townhouse on an American cul-de-sac about a mile from the first American Legoland. A Team USA flag flutters beside her front door.

She is the reigning world champion in the monobob and the two-woman bobsled, and she would be among the favorites to win two gold medals at this winter's Beijing Olympics. She could be the next big American Olympic star . . . except she's not a U.S. citizen.

Humphries, 36, is from Canada, which she represented as she won two gold medals and a bronze in three Olympics before leaving in 2019, a year after filing a complaint alleging verbal and mental harassment by Canada's bobsled coach. And while she since has been allowed to compete for the United States at most international events, the International Olympic Committee requires athletes to be citizens of the countries they represent.

Less than four months before the Winter Games, she is essentially a woman without a country, divorced from a Canadian team with which she says she felt unsafe but unable to get a U.S. passport in part because of laws that require a three-year wait for citizenship by marriage. Because she has been married for just two years, she has been told to expect a passport sometime in 2023.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bobsledder-humphries-left-canada-over-120500524.html

[niyad]

1. That is one sloppy headline, yahoo. Makes it sound as if she were committing the

abuse.

The ioc could certainly grant her an exception. But then, I do not think that the governing body has any sense of decency or integrity.

[abqtommy]

2. I have no advice for Kaillie for this very personal decision. I do support her in

doing the best she can for herself and her family.