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00:08I think Bobsleigh is pretty comparable to Formula 1.
00:15You have your high-budget teams.
00:16And that makes it Germany 1-2!
00:19You have your low-budget teams.
00:20I mean what?
00:21Teammates battling against each other within teams.
00:25It's exciting, it's fast.
00:27Nice looking run from Taylor Austin.
00:28But the margin for errors are really small.
00:30This is true!
00:32I'm trying to go as fast as possible.
00:35I definitely ride that line of cash or crash.
00:37I love you!
00:39Bobsleigh combines massive athleticism...
00:44...with mind, precision...
00:46...and a healthy dose of fear.
00:49It's the best sport in the world.
00:55But it's crazy expensive.
00:58Our tour keeps travelling further and further.
01:00Each athlete has about 500 kilos worth of sleds with them.
01:03Plus runners and tools and equipment.
01:06And you've got to ship that around the world.
01:09Athletes are paying for us to come on tour with them and coach them.
01:13They're all paying $45,000 this year.
01:16This season's basically bankrupt me.
01:18That's a lot of burden to put on somebody.
01:21It's not ideal.
01:22We're real short right now.
01:25The biggest problem is...
01:27...support from the government is a lot smaller than in the past.
01:30But people don't believe in the program right now.
01:32And the athletes, they're giving it their best.
01:36But we don't have everything that we need to win medals.
01:42I've never seen a sport go from so well-funded, so well-coached to what we are now.
01:51The reason why it's so sweet to win is because it's so hard.
02:01AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
02:08AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
02:13Today we have a small issue with the brakes.
02:15Right there.
02:16Must be like a 10 degrees back.
02:19Ok.
02:24I wish we had more resources, money, like technical support, we need spare parts, you
02:32know, we're running out from everything.
02:33My budget should be 20, 25 grand in this season.
02:37Right now, five maybe.
02:41I need this one, and like half is gone, right now, it's beginning in season, half is gone.
02:50I'm fixing right now, my way, MacGyver style, oh man, a little more back.
03:04Equipment is a big thing in bobsleigh, if you line up to every race with an advantage over
03:09somebody else, you're going to win more races than they do.
03:12Let's check the junkyard, not this one, someone took the bar, maybe this one.
03:18It's similar, but it's not the same, no luck.
03:23Some people are building their sleds in their garage, and others are building it at BMW's
03:27factory in Germany.
03:29Oh, there's a good spot.
03:33We got Marty, so, you know.
03:36Yep, I think it's bad.
03:40Don't try this at home.
03:42Only professionals, yeah, you know.
03:44Man, it's almost, I need this point up, like 10 mil minimum.
03:50It's old, you know, but it's still usable.
03:56Marker.
03:56Marker.
03:57Is that loud enough?
03:58All right.
03:59Let's get it.
04:00Okay.
04:01Taylor Austin, bobsleigh pilot.
04:08When I was younger, I always wanted to have a career in football, so I ended up moving
04:13to Calgary and playing with the junior football team, the Calgary Colts.
04:17My dream was always playing in the NFL, playing in the CFL, playing as long as possible.
04:23There was definitely a point in my career when I realized it's not going to go too much
04:26further.
04:28Talking with my running back coach, he had actually tried bobsleigh back in the day.
04:32Taylor Austin of Calgary was a U sports football player with the Calgary Dinos before being recruited
04:37to bobsleigh.
04:41Go, go, go, go.
04:42Go, go, go, go.
04:43Since then I've had a relentless push to be better every day.
04:48Closing it again though.
04:49He's gotta be clean in the bottom of the box.
04:51He will be guaranteed a medal.
04:53He's a world-class bobsled driver.
04:55There's like 10 to 15 of those.
04:5710 years ago, I have a lot of experience and reputation as a resilient bass pilot.
05:03So yeah.
05:03Like you're not actually getting off the wall.
05:05Or do I like help it over more?
05:07I want to be, like, there, but, like, hustled, like, earlier.
05:11I've always, you know, looked up to the people who've been Canada 1,
05:14Canada's best pilot, Rush, and then Cripps.
05:19He was overshadowed and sort of forgotten about.
05:24He's older than I was when I retired.
05:27His window is now.
05:29World Championships being in Lake Placid this year,
05:32he can win that race.
05:33Just has to have a fast enough start.
05:36So, now, I'm Canada 1.
05:38The competition within the team gives them a target to be Canada 1.
05:42That's their target.
05:43My target is trying to be the best in the world.
05:46Obviously, an Olympic medal is everything to a bobsleigh athlete.
05:50For me, it would be redemption.
06:17I think we're going to hold 1, 2 before we go.
06:26All right, fellas, work's been put in.
06:28We know where our jobs are.
06:29Let's try and execute the best we can, right?
06:31Let's put it out.
06:32Let's push ourselves today, baby.
06:33Let's do it.
06:34Let's have some fun.
06:36This year, Taylor's got pretty much a whole new team.
06:41It's a bit of a tryout for those guys, right?
06:44We'll see how their first races go.
06:46We're trying to be good and fast, but make sure we hit those cues.
06:50I've been a track athlete doing 100 and 200-meter sprints.
06:53Bobsleigh has definitely given me a second chance.
06:56This is my second year.
06:57This time, I really have something to prove for myself.
07:00So what I did with Schmode at the time with the handles, I accidentally blocked him, and
07:04then when I realized it, I just went up and I reset.
07:07I'm coming in as a rookie, so I need to learn quick.
07:12There's absolutely a chance I could end up not being on the team.
07:15All I know is I need to do my best.
07:19Taylor is a big role model for everybody, and he's one of the best drivers in the world.
07:24Me coming in very new, it's a great honor to be on his team.
07:27Okay.
07:30There's definitely some weight going into this next Olympics.
07:33It's, you know, medal or bust for us.
07:46Cyrus' team came into this whole preseason as the underdogs.
07:49So these guys have something to prove, right?
07:53It's just a little visualization.
07:55This is important because then it gives me and my crew confidence that I can get down
08:00the track safely.
08:05Every time we do it, we're picturing a perfect run.
08:11Go!
08:13We've been training together for four months now.
08:17The hard work is paying off.
08:20We're going to try to beat Taylor.
08:23Taylor Austin from Canada and some of the athletes you know well.
08:28The funny thing is like three of us, me, Cyrus and Shaq, were his team pushing him on his
08:35first World Cup medal.
08:3730 hundreds back, so it's not going to be gold, but he will be in the medal.
08:42It's a guaranteed medal for Taylor Austin of Canada.
08:46Yes, boys!
08:47Wow, that's an amazing result for this team.
08:50First ever World Cup medal for all four members of this team.
08:55That proved that that team could be something.
08:58I told you, Taylor, we're going to get a medal, and we got it.
09:02And we're going to keep going.
09:03Yes, sir.
09:04That was big time.
09:06We won a lot of medals.
09:08My time in that team was good, you know?
09:10We got to be World Cup medalists together.
09:14They put their faith in me to do what we needed to do, and I think we were successful.
09:21Our dynamic was a little tense.
09:24But when we have to perform, we perform, because we're professionals.
09:29We finished eighth overall in the 22-23 season together.
09:34On your time with Shaq, Boca, and Cyrus, did you enjoy sliding with these guys?
09:39I'm not answering that question.
09:46This past summer, Taylor decided to go in a different direction.
09:52He took on some new brakemen.
09:56Yeah, Taylor never really told me about the change.
09:59He just went and formed his team.
10:06What?
10:07Let's go, Boca!
10:12How's the gear velocity?
10:1443-02.
10:16That's insane.
10:17He's been doing very well the last few push sessions.
10:20Boca.
10:20Yeah!
10:22That's what I'm talking about!
10:24Porra!
10:25What did I say, man?
10:26What did I say?
10:28It's a good day for Boca, eh?
10:30Both Shaq and Boca are amongst the best pushers on the team.
10:33They've had a really good camp, and they're definitely the top pushers in the organization.
10:4043-93.
10:42That's fast.
10:46The pilot supposedly wants the best guys to push him.
10:52They used to fight for the best guys.
10:554 PBs, man.
10:574 PBs.
10:59But right now, the best pilot is one of the best guys.
11:02It's hard to understand, and it's hard to not take personal.
11:07At this point, I have to take his decision very personal, and now I have to show him and
11:13the coaching staff my worth, right?
11:15This is not a nice guy sport.
11:18Dragons click the title of Summer Boca.
11:22It's a big risk.
11:23The boys don't really know how to load yet.
11:26Back!
11:26Good!
11:30They're good athletes, but right now, they're just not ready.
11:34The guys forget closing zippers on the gears.
11:46Are you good?
11:49He's definitely on the back end with a year or two left in this sport, so why wouldn't
11:54you want to win, and win now?
11:56It's faster, but it was not as good.
12:00For me to have a new team this year is definitely risky.
12:03Oh yeah, we're way out of it.
12:05And that's the same spot we were yesterday.
12:07Yeah, but at least we're in the sled seminary.
12:09Yeah.
12:09But I'm focused on me and the team I have presently.
12:13We are just taking a long time to complete the load.
12:16Like, we started loading here.
12:17If you make the wrong choice with teammates, you're not going to get the result that you
12:21want.
12:22You only have a very small window of opportunity to achieve big things in this sport.
12:55Just trust it more, execute.
12:57No, man.
12:57It's nothing.
12:58It's nothing.
12:59Smartie would put it.
13:00It's nothing.
13:0150-50.
13:01It's okay.
13:03North American Cup.
13:04Big deal.
13:05Yeah, North American Cup.
13:06It's fine.
13:07You win.
13:07World champs.
13:08You made shiny.
13:12See if we get a counter on him.
13:13Is he doing 20?
13:15I don't think he's doing 20.
13:16I'm doing 30, man.
13:1730.
13:18Check the taste.
13:18That's what we're supposed to do.
13:20As per the Bald Slave Voodoo.
13:22What is Bald Slave Voodoo?
13:25Oh, good question.
13:27Bald Slave Voodoo?
13:27It's everything, man.
13:28You know, someone back in the day did it.
13:30They transferred that knowledge onto someone else.
13:32We try and replicate things that the people that have been successful,
13:37do.
13:38Hopefully it works for us.
13:40So, anyway.
13:41Make sure you just get Shane sitting on his chair doing nothing.
13:44This is his usual position.
13:46This is Shane's normal position.
13:48Man, I gotta, I gotta rest up.
13:51Shane had a twisted ankle there a couple days ago,
13:53warming up for the two-man race.
13:55Have you seen Shane, his brakeman?
13:56The chair behind him.
13:57He's a big guy, right?
13:58You know, like, what's this guy got to do to kind of like,
14:01to, in order to keep his safety?
14:03Oh, oh, oh.
14:04He's got a little.
14:05You all right?
14:07Yeah?
14:08Ouch.
14:10We'll see.
14:11Yeah?
14:12Hey.
14:13God damn it.
14:15You gonna be okay, or you need someone else to go in?
14:17Someone else.
14:18Someone else?
14:20Yeah, I was doing my final warm-up,
14:22and I ran until this little ice mound and rolled my ankle.
14:25So, out for this race.
14:26We'll fire markup, eh?
14:27Yeah, I keep going.
14:28Keep going.
14:29Two minutes to start for the men.
14:30Two minutes to start.
14:31You always have a substitute kind of sitting there ready to go,
14:34but they usually don't go in.
14:36So, they're not necessarily actually prepped and ready to go.
14:39Don't think.
14:40Just push.
14:41Track is clear for Taylor Austin and Shane Orr.
14:43No, fire them!
14:44Come on!
14:45Come on, Mark.
14:46Back!
14:46Yeah!
14:48Go!
14:49Go!
14:50Go!
14:52Go!
14:53It's clear Austin and Shane Orr.
14:545-2-6 is that start.
14:58You know, football, rugby.
15:00You play through some injuries.
15:02But Shane came from track and fields.
15:04Track's a bit more.
15:05Everything has to be perfect kind of thing.
15:07So, for him, he's everything to be feeling like really, really good for him to really execute
15:11stuff.
15:12Oh, oh, oh.
15:14Oh, yeah, there you go.
15:17Yeah, it's definitely gotten worse.
15:19Shane's injury could be a problem for him.
15:21We don't know if he's going to be good for the race,
15:23but we'll have to wait and see.
15:27That's good, eh?
15:28Ooh.
15:31Bob today's more of a rugged sport.
15:33Sometimes you just have to tape it up and get back in the race.
15:36How am I going to get my foot in my shoe?
15:38Yeah.
15:38Oh, ho, ho!
15:41All right, I'm going to go listen to some sad music
15:43and cry in the corner.
15:50All right, good afternoon, and welcome to Whistler Sliding
15:52Center, some action-packed racing coming up soon.
15:55You can't be too tight, too, right?
15:57Because we need the back and forth.
16:01She's coming higher, the runner.
16:03I think we're going to be good today.
16:05Yeah.
16:06Pull it.
16:08That's the lead that we're using right now.
16:09It's a very old sled that we use for push training.
16:12But it's overused, right?
16:15And right here, we are taping the brake handles.
16:18Because there's a big metal piece right here
16:21that is cutting my ankle.
16:23So the Icehouse sled is just basically a practice sled
16:26that we push on all summer.
16:28And we bring it out when we have to.
16:30And that's the sled they gave us this year.
16:32Because we ain't good enough for a good sled yet.
16:36The best pilots, you know, the experienced pilots,
16:39get the best sleds.
16:41And they have a machine set.
16:42Oh, yo, baby.
16:43Lift it up.
16:44That's good.
16:46That's good.
16:46How was it, Tim?
16:48Nothing.
16:48Oh, man, it drives like a dream.
16:50So we're going to take the hood off.
16:52Because we don't want to show what this design is.
16:54Yeah, we'll tell them to cut this part.
16:55Oh, yeah, man.
16:56We're, like, keeping some secrets right now.
16:58The other teams maybe have a better equipment
17:00or more money for the equipment.
17:03We'd rather not show it.
17:05It's, like, secret stuff.
17:07Yeah, we want to keep some secrets.
17:09It's .
17:11It drives itself, man.
17:12Just touch it, it just goes.
17:14Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:14Downtown was good.
17:17Oh, man.
17:19Woo!
17:19I almost lost a finger.
17:22All right.
17:24That's good.
17:24That's good.
17:25Woo!
17:27Cyrus has recently switched from being a brakeman
17:29to being a pilot.
17:30He's got a lot of really good, experienced
17:32brakemen on his team.
17:35He's got a really strong start.
17:37But Cyrus is still really new at driving.
17:42Go, go, go!
17:55Oh, that's bad.
17:56Pull that bad.
17:56Pull that bad.
17:57Oh, fuck.
18:00Crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash.
18:04Crash, crash, crash, crash.
18:08Cyrus crashed a week and a half ago.
18:11OK, I'm just going to break mine.
18:14Button big, no, man.
18:15Are you good, buddy?
18:16It wasn't easy was a rough one got me a burn
18:23Yeah, I think Cyrus's crash it kind of shook him up a little bit. Sometimes it can shake your confidence
18:32This track is the fastest in the world so
18:36Happens right?
18:38Nobody wants to crash and everybody wants to get down the fastest. It is a little bit hard on the
18:43ego as well
18:46a
18:46Pilot can always get rattled from a bad crash it you got to get back to the top of the
18:50hill and
18:51Try to fix the mistakes you made
19:00We are pushing towards one goal
19:05Elevate the new pilot qualify him
19:10It's an Olympic season, so let's go
19:14That's what I'm talking about baby. Yeah, today's his day
19:22Attention we have 35 minutes to competition start
19:33Scary warm up that fast
19:35Little movements right you can feel it
19:39But it's too hard right now, so nothing I can do gotta go for it. So we'll see
19:45Sure we can
19:48North American Cup is a proving ground before you get on to the World Cup you have the opportunity to
19:53get points that can get you qualified for the Olympic Games
19:57That track is clear for USA team Grady Mercer from Bob start
20:03Bobsleigh
20:04Bobsleigh track
20:044-man is the marquee sport in men's bobsleigh
20:09It's the fastest most dangerous
20:11Go go go go go go go
20:13So it's the funnest to drive as well
20:16Yeah, we should be like 152 153 kilometers an hour today
20:20Top speed 150 kilometers an hour
20:22The track is clear for Canada team Pat Norton from Bob start
20:27Bobsleighounds
20:275, 2, 3, 2, 3
20:29Go go
20:31Today we're gonna see spicy ice
20:35Bobsleigh entrapped
20:37It was cold last night
20:39And its clear blue skies today
20:43Which is just the recipe for fast ice
20:46149 Tom speed here, 4, Canada's Pat North
20:56When the ice is hard, you get way less grip, so obviously that's a lot harder to drive.
21:21So right now it's the pre-Olympic season, the pressure's starting to mount up, you're
21:27really starting to see how you stack up against the world and you're starting to see where
21:30the chips fall as far as your chances at the Olympics.
21:44So qualifying for the Olympics is based off of your ranking points you get from all the
21:50different circuits you race on.
21:51The North American Cup, the Europe Cup and the World Cup, that creates a ranking list of
21:56athletes.
22:00And there's a cut-off basically, and if you're inside of that you go, and if you're outside
22:06of that you don't go.
22:07Track is clear for Canada team, Taylor Austin, from Bob Starr.
22:13Go on, Shane!
22:16Back, dude!
22:17Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
22:19Bob Starr in track, and here comes Canada's Taylor Austin on board with him.
22:24Shane Ort, Mark Zinnett, and Johan Eskrick-Parkinson.
22:30The 6100's in it, coming out of corner seven, now down to four.
22:34This particular sled has a way of finding speed in the bottom half of the track.
22:38We'll expect no different this time.
22:42Austin again picking up speed at the bottom.
22:44Fastest speed, we've seen 151.5, has Taylor Austin across 5189.
22:50Sitting comfortably on top of the board.
22:54Whoo!
22:56Here we go, boys!
22:57We're going to give the best crew to the best pilot.
23:00Right now that looks like Taylor.
23:02That's it?
23:03Yeah.
23:04You know what?
23:05There's a lot of potential on Taylor's team.
23:06You know what?
23:08When it comes down to it, the coaches are going to make the teams for world championships,
23:12we're going to put our best foot forward, and everybody's going to want to be on that
23:15top sled.
23:29I've always been the underdog since I was a little guy.
23:33That's how I like to live.
23:34I like when people don't believe.
23:42My mom always liked working, and she was a single mother.
23:46I lost my father when I was three.
23:49I was making my own money when I was eight, nine years old to help her.
23:55And then I grew up on the track and field.
23:58But I started having problems, started hanging with, like, wrong people, and I was getting
24:05lost.
24:06But I was like, man, I promised myself that I would be an Olympian.
24:12My coach one day is like, hey, this thing called bobsled is going to have a trial.
24:16I don't know what the heck is this bobsled thing.
24:19I did the physical test, and the team's like, all right, you guys is going to Canada.
24:24And I was like, I guess I go to Canada.
24:28We just came, meet these lads, you guys are going to jump on this thing, go down this hill.
24:35But I didn't speak no English, right?
24:37Just got these lads, sit there, and then go down.
24:43Holy crap, this thing is fast for real, man.
24:50So the 2014 Olympics was coming up.
24:54Russia, Sochi.
24:56But I ended up like that I just became a despair.
24:59That's when I took a four years break.
25:01Ready, Liam?
25:02Let's go.
25:04Workout time.
25:06Okay, one more.
25:07Push, push, push, push, push, push, push.
25:09My first kid came, Dylan, and I was watching the Olympics again.
25:13I saw the Canadian team compete.
25:17Crips team got the bronze medal.
25:20And when I saw him coming out of the sled screaming and crying, I cried too.
25:25And that day, it's like, I'm back to this.
25:30My roots, I take everywhere I grow.
25:33I'm Brazilian.
25:35But I want to represent Canada because that was the country that showed me different life.
25:42The country that embraced me and saved me.
25:47I want to make sure my kids grow up and say my father was an Olympian.
25:52Not only with Brazil, but with the country that I was born to.
25:56You guys, they will be hungry next year.
25:59They better be hungry because I'm starving.
26:01A little bit back.
26:02A little bit of work to do for a number two president.
26:05You've gone six seconds off the oil.
26:07Let's go, Boca.
26:08Come on, Team Grey.
26:09Let's go.
26:10Come on, Boca.
26:12Come on, Boca.
26:14We're the underdogs and we're just here to prove a point right now.
26:17We've got the best pushing athletes on the team.
26:19Everybody knows it.
26:21And Taylor is the best driver that we have in our program in the country and one of the
26:25best in the world.
26:27Do you think his push times aren't that strong?
26:30100%.
26:30His push time is probably one of the worst ones on the world level.
26:35Track is clear for Team McKenna, Cyrus Grey, Shaq Marie Lawrence, Chris Holmsted, and
26:42The Sub-Zone.
26:43Come on, Boca.
26:44Come on, baby.
26:45Come on.
26:45We got it.
26:53Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
26:56Popsleigh in track.
26:57And here comes Cyrus Grey and his guys, Mary Lawrence, Homestead, and De Sousa.
27:03four nine four first sub five push we've seen here some of the most powerful pushers that we
27:10have here in Canada. Gray already bumped him up. Run here for Cyrus. High through 16 gets it down
27:20okay. 148 is the top speed. 52.33 is the finish sliding Cyrus Gray and his crew
27:26into fifth position after seven sleds down.
27:35We didn't double check the brakes we passed up probably 120. I mean we got the oldest sled in
27:42the field so I'm yanking on them I'm pulling them as hard as I can they're not catching and we're
27:47just praying hoping we slow down. Well we're okay we're good we're safe and we ready to go again.
27:55All right we'll take a look at the leaderboard here while we are getting that sled back a bit
27:59of an overshoot there for the team. Third place Dearborn and second place Norton and first place
28:05Austin that is after seven sleds.
28:07Let it go let it go Chris. What an ankle Shane. What an ankle baby. What are we talking about
28:14here.
28:15Today's been driving good and even with a new crew.
28:17Yeah they're doing good. I mean they'll push a little faster but yeah getting down fast.
28:23I keep telling the Aussies that the easiest way to be faster at the bottom is just to push
28:27faster at the top. Yeah.
28:29We're two minutes to start for the men. Two minutes to start men's four man heat number two.
28:35For the second heat you go down in reverse order from worst to first.
28:40He'll be going off last in the second heat because he was the fastest on the first heat.
28:49Top speed for these guys 144. Oh four seconds ahead of the field. What a run. USA's Grady
28:56Mercer down 53-2-3. Two runs for him at 1-46-3-1. Track is clear for candidate team
29:06Cyrus Gray.
29:07Let's go boys. Big push. Come on boys. Let's go. There's advantages to being the underdog.
29:15I mean it gives you that drive right. Let's go. Dig. Dig. Dig.
29:23Here comes Gray with his big guys behind him. They're 492.
29:28Nice. That's push.
29:32It's pressure in a different way. If you're the top person you have every advantage then you feel this pressure
29:37of you have to win versus the underdog you've got nothing to lose.
29:41Because you're always pushing up. 16-3-6 past quarter. Three. Nine tenths. Now a full second into the lead.
29:48And you're getting closer and you're putting more pressure on those people in front of you that should be winning.
29:52That lead increasing now one and a half seconds.
29:56Now 148 kilometers an hour. Good speed here for Cyrus Gray and his crew.
30:011.85 seconds into first place. They go.
30:09Push time was the best of the day.
30:13Let's go. You better wake up.
30:15Fastest team on the field.
30:18Cyrus drove amazing on the second run.
30:22Cyrus crashed last week. Lost a little bit of his confidence.
30:25But he got his confidence back. He got his soul back.
30:29You gotta believe in the underdogs, man.
30:31You gotta believe.
30:33Cyrus drove great in the second heat. First run was a little shaky, but he really laid down a good
30:38one on the second run.
30:39And that's kind of what you'd expect from somebody in his level of development.
30:43One sled to go.
30:44You got Taylor, who's a phenomenal driver. He's got a bunch of new rookies.
30:49And he's trying to show the old teammates that, hey, I don't need you guys.
30:52Let's go.
30:53I mean, nobody was worried about us at the start of this. And now I think we got everybody's attention
30:59for sure.
31:00I would be worried if I was him. I mean, he should be.
31:05Woo! Come on, boys.
31:07Taylor doesn't have the best pushes right now. Those guys are young, inexperienced.
31:11They will get better. But for now, he's just relying on his driving ability.
31:15Track is clear for candidate team Taylor Austin.
31:19Shane told me something, buddy. Come on. Come on, Shane.
31:22Yeah, yeah. Come on.
31:27Fuck you.
31:29Get it. Get it. Get it.
31:31And final block in track. This is it for all the marbles.
31:35This is candidate team Taylor Austin on board.
31:38Orton, Zanette, and Ezra Parkinson.
31:42Sub-5 push in. It's 498.
31:46Ford pants up. 39.24 out of 11 down onto Gold Rush Trail.
31:51Now our speed here. This is Taylor Austin across 52.03.
31:56Two runs for him at 143.92. That's good enough for first place there.
32:02After all nine sleds down, third place, Bindalati. Second place, Grave. First place, Taylor Austin.
32:12I'm proud of the boys today. They stepped up. I had to get a good couple of pushes.
32:15You know, I'm happy to come away with the win.
32:26So close to be Taylor today. We got one more time tomorrow.
32:30We're going to come with the same intensity, same work ethic, and get the job done.
32:50Yesterday was a hell of a run and a break stretch.
33:00I gave some taps there with the hammer.
33:04I'm excited to see if it's going to work today.
33:14Welcome back to a subsiding center for North America's Cup Bobsleigh, the men's four-man race number two.
33:21The NAC race has two days of four-man racing, so you can actually get double the amount of points
33:26in a short amount of time than you would on the World Cup circuit.
33:29Man, I got a question. You think I got to rinse this out from yesterday?
33:32Nah. Let's go.
33:34Yeah, yeah.
33:35This is when science meets jock. So we start off with a dirty shaker cup from yesterday.
33:42From yesterday.
33:43With a little bit of residue in it from whatever I made to clean alkaline water.
33:50Caesar, one full scoop?
33:51I got one and a half.
33:53Caesar wants to die. I don't want to die like that.
33:57Caesar, I'm giving you a good amount.
34:01That's it.
34:02It's time to take a sit, baby.
34:06Oh.
34:08Let's go.
34:09Everybody's got us counted out, and that's what we're going for.
34:12Another upset special.
34:14You got this, man.
34:20146 jump speed here for the Australian camp scout in Team 54-2-1 finish.
34:33The track is clear for candidate team Cyrus Gray from Bob's start.
34:39Go, go, go, go!
34:41Go, go, go!
34:44Gray was a pretty decent lead.
34:46150, fastest speed we've seen.
34:48There he is into the number one spot.
34:50Boom.
34:51Cyrus Gray, 19-100.
34:52First place, 52-05.
34:59The brakes are not perfect right now, but it's better than yesterday.
35:02We fixed it.
35:03Let's see how it's going to be.
35:06This is Canada's Taylor Austin.
35:09150 is the speed, and it's just like that.
35:13100's into first place goes Canada's Taylor Austin.
35:1651-94 is the finish there.
35:18We're sitting in second place right now.
35:20Just only 10-100 is behind Taylor's team.
35:23We're going for top spot.
35:26Holy shit!
35:27Let's take him!
35:28Let's take him!
35:28The track is clear for candidate team Cyrus Gray from Bob's start.
35:35Hey, go, come!
35:36Come on, baby!
35:37Wake up!
35:38Woo!
35:38Let's go, boys!
35:39Let's hit it!
35:40Watch that!
35:40Let's go!
35:49Go!
35:50Go, go, go...
35:51Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
35:53Box lane in track team, and that Taylor Austin has not started.
35:59Push bar is out, push bar is out, stand back, stand back.
36:05So I think it's a push bar malfunction.
36:08So like the pilot push bar didn't actually lock in, like you punch that lever and it's
36:12supposed to drop.
36:15Now you don't see that every day.
36:19Hopefully we get that slid back into the sled.
36:22Six 100s in front.
36:31Hold that star, hold that star.
36:48Come on, man.
36:49Come on, man.
37:01Come on, man.
37:05Just give me the f***ing two eyes, man.
37:14F***ing's had to bite you up.
37:16Bite you open!
37:19Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
37:21You need to see the doctor?
37:22Oh, I don't need doctor, man. I'm good.
37:24You didn't work. You tried.
37:26I saw you tried.
37:28You tried.
37:37Push bar is going to be your rack, eh?
37:40You got a size push bar?
37:41Yeah.
37:42Oh, man.
37:43Oh, no.
37:44Where's that?
37:46Yeah, that's 13.
37:49Shoot.
37:59We thought you had it close.
38:01He's like...
38:01He's driving.
38:02I know.
38:03Driving with one hand?
38:06Can you believe in that?
38:08With the barrel.
38:09Yeah.
38:11With that one.
38:12We walked down.
38:14Did anyone notice any sort of ips in the body?
38:16I think we should talk about some heads.
38:18Hard, hard, hard.
38:19I think so.
38:20Okay.
38:32Taylor Austin, Cape Canada.
38:34Having a blinder of a series here for North America's Cup.
38:37Good speed at 150 kilometers an hour.
38:41What do you expect?
38:42And there it is.
38:435-1-8-9 is the finish.
38:44Taylor Austin into the number one spot.
38:465-1-0-1-4-3-8-3.
38:49And with that, it includes North America's Cup ball sleigh racing.
38:53That's what I'm talking about, dude.
38:55Double gold!
38:56You say one ankle.
38:57One ankle!
38:58One ankle!
38:58One ankle!
38:59He said, uh...
39:03That's the only part I can see, you know?
39:05You know?
39:05These guys are celebrating.
39:07And breaking the cement.
39:08Yeah.
39:09You know.
39:10A good cement.
39:11A common accord.
39:14I'm sorry.
39:14Yeah.
39:15It's all good.
39:16I know you're upset.
39:17You're not so happy.
39:21Well, you know.
39:23You did what we could.
39:25You did so well, man.
39:29You know, when I look back on the athletes that have achieved Olympic medals,
39:33they all have some type of massive disappointment in their career
39:38that lit a fire under them to do that extra next thing
39:42that takes them from being that top six or top eight person
39:46to standing on top of the podium.
39:50And in first place, representing Canada, Taylor Austin, Shane Ort, Mark Zenit.
40:15I've been sliding for 12, 13 years already.
40:18I'll be 36 at the next Olympics, so that's it for me.
40:22Whoo!
40:24Nice!
40:27I'm excited to see what I can do in the next two years,
40:29what the team around me can bring.
40:31It tastes better after four wins.
40:33Oh, yeah.
40:34Clean it up.
40:35Taste the victory.
40:36The guys that are with me right now, you know,
40:37I'd love to see them racing me at the world championships.
40:40We'll have to see how these guys do through the rest of the year.
40:42Even though there's some other guys that are pushing faster
40:44straight off the top,
40:45I think we showed that we're in range of them.
40:49Man, if it wasn't the pilot bar today,
40:52we would definitely make some noise.
40:54This team did a great job going down with that thing of opening.
40:57So close.
40:58So close to Taylor.
40:59So close.
40:59These guys stay hungry.
41:01Real good.
41:02As a younger driver or a newer driver,
41:04your goal is to knock off the top sleds,
41:07to take their spot.
41:08That's the name of the game, right?
41:09If you want to move up to the World Cup,
41:11you've got to beat a World Cup sled.
41:13We're within 500,
41:15so guys have been pushing together for months, years even.
41:17Yeah.
41:17Man, I ain't worried about that.
41:19It is a high-performance sport.
41:20And at the end of the day,
41:21the best people are going to race with me.
41:23I don't have a crystal ball.
41:25Injuries could happen.
41:26People could come up.
41:27People could go down.
41:28Well, let's have to see.
41:30Canada!
41:31Team on three, team on me.
41:32One, two, three, team!
41:34The team is very united right now.
41:36We're working hard.
41:37But Taylor is the best pilot on the Canadian system.
41:42And being so close to him,
41:45just a little bit frustrated, you know?
41:47We just don't have the equipment that will help us
41:50to achieve the highest place in the podium yet.
41:55The underdogs, man.
41:56We don't stop until we get it.
41:59If you don't beat your own teammates,
42:02you don't get to go compete against the rest of the world
42:04at the highest level.
42:06But eventually you have to work with your opponents
42:09on your own team to push each other and work together
42:12so that you can beat the rest of the world.
42:30training, working, and being in the team,
42:32is very important to me.
42:36At the end of the day, I'm going to be in the Olympics.
42:42I push hard every moment I'm on that sled.
42:45I have no idea how to push less than 120%.
42:50You're up, Boca.
42:53Man, I just want to be the best.
42:56I said to myself in the beginning, when I jump on the Canadian team, say, I will be
43:02one of the best on this team, and I'll prove to you guys that I will be.
43:07Let's go, Boca!
43:13Let's go!
43:21Let's go!
43:231, 2, 1!
43:291, 2, 1!
43:37Male, multiple fractures, right femur, suspected spinal trauma, ETA two minutes.
43:42Go to the hallway, come into the room.
43:43It's Jake, Doc.
43:45It's Jake, Doc.
43:47Can you hear me?
43:48My name's Dr. Jay.
43:49Spinos are dropping.
43:50Two, one.
43:52No!
43:53Ah!
43:54No!
43:55Ah!
44:07No!
44:07No!
44:08No!
44:08No!
44:09No!
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