Olympic hurdler Phylicia George aiming for spot on Humphries’ bobsled crew
Phylicia George bounced around like a bobblehead on her first trip down the Whistler track, tossed out of her comfort zone at 120 kilometres an hour.
It was an inauspicious bobsled debut for the two-time Olympic hurdler, who is hoping to make the successful jump to the winter sport for the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
“I’m going to be totally honest. . . I actually hated it my first run down,” George said laughing. “People tried to explain to me ‘This is what it’s going to feel like,’ but you have to just experience it to know. I didn’t sit in the sled low enough so I was getting whipped around like crazy, my neck was killing me after.”
George, fellow hurdler Nikkita Holder, and Canada’s rugby sevens captain Jen Kish were among athletes recruited to try bobsled by two-time Olympic gold medallist Kaillie Humphries.