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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.
02:02It is so bad today.
02:12Today we have a small issue with the brakes.
02:15Right there must be like 10 degrees back.
02:20Okay.
02:24I wish we had more resources, money, like technical support, we need spare parts, you know, we're running out from
02:33everything.
02:33My budget should be 20, 25 grand in this season.
02:37Right now, five maybe.
02:41I need this one.
02:43And like half is gone.
02:45It's beginning in season, half is gone.
02:50I'm fixing right now my way.
02:55MacGyver style.
03:00Oh man, a little more back.
03:04Equipment is a big thing in bobsleigh.
03:06If you line up to every race with an advantage over somebody else, you're going to win more races than
03:11they do.
03:12Let's check the junkyard.
03:13Not this one.
03:14Someone took the part.
03:16Maybe this one.
03:18It's similar, but it's not the same.
03:21No luck.
03:23Some people are building their sleds in their garage and others are building it at BMW's factory in Germany.
03:29Oh, there's a good spot.
03:33We got Marty, so, you know.
03:36Yep.
03:37I think it's bad.
03:40Don't try this at home.
03:42Only professionals, yeah, you know.
03:44Man, it's almost.
03:46I need this point up, like 10 mil minimum.
03:50It's old sleds, you know.
03:52But it's still usable.
03:56Marker.
03:57Is that loud enough?
03:58All right, let's get it.
04:00Okay.
04:01Taylor Austin, bobsleigh pilot.
04:08When I was younger, I always wanted to have a career in football.
04:12So, I ended up moving to 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 further.
04:28Talking with my running back coach, he had actually tried bobsleigh back in the day.
04:32Taylor Austin of Calgary was a youth sports football player with the Calgary Dinos before being recruited to bobsleigh.
04:43since then i've had a relentless push to be better every day closing it again though he's
04:49got to be clean in the bottom of the house he will be guaranteed a medal he's a world-class
04:54bobsled driver there's like 10 to 15 of those 10 years ago i have a lot of experience and
05:00reputation as a resilient fast pilot so yeah like you're not actually getting off the wall
05:05or do i like help it over more leave this ice i want to be like there but like a
05:09sled like earlier
05:11i've always you know looked up to the people who've been canada one canada's best pilot
05:16rush and then crips he was overshadowed and sort of forgotten about he's older than i was when i
05:26retired his window is now world championships being in lake placid this year he can win that race
05:33just has to have a fast enough start so now i'm canada one the competition within the team gives
05:40them a target to be canada one that's their target my target is trying to be the best in the
05:46world
05:46so obviously an olympic medal is everything to a bobsled athlete for me it would be redemption
06:35so this year taylor's got pretty much a whole new team
06:41it's a bit of a tryout for those guys right we'll see how their first races go we're trying to
06:46be
06:46good and fast but make sure we hit those cues i've been a track athlete doing 100 and 200 meter
06:52sprints
06:53bobsled is definitely giving me a second chance this is my second year this time i really have
06:59something to prove for myself so what i did with schmo that time with the handles i actually blocked him
07:04and then when i realized that i just went up and i reset i'm coming in as a rookie so
07:09i need to learn
07:10quick back there's absolutely a chance i could end up not being on the team all i know is i
07:16need to do
07:16my best taylor is a big role model for everybody and he's one of the best drivers in the world
07:24me
07:24coming in very new it's a great honor to be on his team okay there's definitely some weight going into
07:32this next olympics it's you know medal or bust for us cyrus's team came into this whole preseason
07:48as the underdogs so these guys have something to prove right it's just a little visualization this
07:55is important because then it gives me and my crew confidence that i can get down the track safely
08:04oh every time we do it we'll picture in a perfect run
08:13go we've been training together for four months now the hard work is paying off
08:19yeah we're gonna try to beat taylor taylor 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 first
08:35world cup
08:36medal well that's an amazing result for this team first ever world cup medal for all four members of
08:54this team that proved that that team could be something i told you taylor we're gonna get a medal
09:01and we got it and we're gonna keep going yes sir that was big time we won a lot of
09:07medals
09:08my time in that team was good you know we 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 but when we have to perform we perform because we're professionals
09:29we finished eighth overall in the 22-23 season together
09:33on your time with uh shaq boca and cyrus like did you enjoy sliding with these guys i'm not answering
09:39that question
09:46this past summer taylor decided to go in a different direction he took on some new brakeman
09:56yeah taylor never really told me about the change he just went and formed his team
10:17he's been doing very well the last few push sessions
10:20boca yeah that's what i'm talking about
10:28it's a good day for boca both jack 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
10:46the pilot supposedly wants the best guys to push him
10:52they used to fight for the best guys
10:55four pps man four pps
10:59but right now the best pilot doesn't want the best guys it's hard to understand and it's hard to not
11:05take personal at this point i have to take his decision very personal and now i have to show him
11:12and the coaching staff my worth right this is not a nice guy sport
11:22it's a big risk the boys don't really know how to load yet
11:30it's very good athletes but right now and they're just not ready
11:34oh the guys forget closing zippers on the on the gears
11:49he's definitely on the back end with a year or two left in the sport
11:53so why wouldn't you want to win and win now it's faster but it was not as good
12:00for me to have a new team this year is definitely risky oh yeah we're away and that's the same
12:06spot we were yesterday yeah but at least we're in the sled seminary yeah but i'm focused on me and
12:12the team i have presently we are just taking a long time to complete the load like we started loading
12:17here if you make the wrong choice with teammates you're not going to get the result that you want
12:22you only have a very small window of opportunity to achieve big things in this sport just trust it
12:27more execute every rep just trying to be faster off the pump you know apparently he doesn't want
12:32the fastest team yet but it's his it's his team right
12:46clicker's a big scratch in it so that's fun
12:48that one's a big one yeah that one's big oh no shane man shane this is your looking runner
12:54all right let's take a look no man it's nothing nothing smarty would put it somebody would say
13:00it's nothing 50 50. it's okay
13:03north american cup big deal yeah north american cup it's fine you win world champs you made shiny
13:12see if we get a counter on him is he doing 20. i don't think he's doing 20. i'm doing
13:1730 man
13:1730. check the taste what we're supposed to do as per the bobsleigh voodoo
13:25oh good question it's everything man you know someone back in the day did it they transferred that
13:30knowledge onto someone else we try and replicate things that the people that have been successful do
13:38hopefully it works for us so anyway make sure you just get shane sitting on this chair doing
13:44nothing this is his usual position this is shane's normal position man i gotta i gotta rest up
13:51shane had a twisted ankle there a couple days ago warming up for the uh two-man race have you
13:55seen shane his brakeman the chair behind he's a big guy right you know like what's this guy got
13:59to do to kind of like to in order to keep his safety oh okay he's got a little you're
14:06all right
14:08yeah ouch let's see yeah
14:17someone else yeah i was doing my final warm-up and i around to this little ice mound and rolled
14:24my ankle
14:24so out for this race we'll fire mark up hey two minutes to start for the men two minutes to
14:31start
14:31you always have a substitute kind of sitting there ready to go but they usually don't go in so they're
14:36not necessarily actually prepped and ready to go don't think just push track is clear for taylor
14:53austin and shane or five two six is that start
14:58you know football rugby you play through some injuries but shane came from track and field
15:04tracks a bit more everything has to be perfect kind of thing so for him he's everything to be
15:09feeling like really really good for him to really execute stuff oh oh oh oh yeah there you go
15:16yeah it's definitely gotten worse shane's injury could be a problem for him we don't know if he's
15:22going to be good for the race but we'll have to wait and see
15:31bob today's more of a rugged sport sometimes you just have to tape it up and get back in the
15:35race
15:36how am i gonna get my foot in my shoe yeah oh all right i need to go listen to
15:43some sad music and
15:44cry in the corner all right good afternoon and welcome to whistler sliding center some action-packed
15:54racing coming up soon can't be too tight too right because we need the back and forth
16:01she's coming higher and the runner i think we're gonna be good today yeah pull it that's leather we're
16:09using right now is a very old sled that we use for push training but it's overused right and right
16:15here
16:16we are taping the brake handles because there's a big metal piece right here that is cutting my ankle
16:23so the ice house sled is just basically a practice sled that we push on all summer we bring it
16:29out when
16:29we have to and uh that's the sled they gave us this year because we ain't good enough for a
16:34good sled yet
16:36so the best pilots you know the the experienced pilots get the the best sleds and they have a
16:41machine oh man it drives like a dream so we're gonna take the hood off because we don't want to
16:53show how much design yeah we'll tell them to cut this part oh yeah we like keeping some secret right
16:58now
16:58the other teams maybe have a better equipment or more money for the equipment we'd rather not show
17:04it it's like secret stuff yeah we want to keep some secrets it drives itself man just touch it it
17:13just
17:13goes yeah yeah yeah downtime was good oh man almost lost a finger all right
17:26cyrus has recently switched from being a brakeman to being a pilot he's got a lot of really good
17:31experience breaking on his team
17:35they have a really strong start but cyrus is still really new at driving
17:43go go go go
17:59crash crash crash crash crash
18:09a week and a half ago
18:16it wasn't easy it 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 because it's the fastest in the world so yeah happens right nobody wants to crash and
18:39everybody wants to get down the fastest it is a little bit hard on the ego as well
18:46a pilot can always get rattled from a bad crash you got to get back to the top of the
18:50hill
18:51and try to fix the mistakes you made
18:55one more one more
18:56one more one more one more one more one more one more one more one more one more one more
19:00we are pushing towards one goal
19:04elevate the new pilot qualify him
19:10it's the olympic season so let's go that's what i'm talking about baby yeah today's his day
19:22Attention, we now have 35 minutes to competition start.
19:32It's scary to warm up that fast, little movements right, you can feel it, but it's
19:40hard right now, so nothing I can do, gotta go for it, so we'll see, I'm sure we can.
19:48The North American Cup is a proving ground before you get on to the World Cup.
19:52You have the opportunity to get points that can get you qualified for the Olympic Games.
19:57That track is clear for USA team Grady Mercer from Bob Star.
20:03Bobsleigh track.
20:044-Man is the marquee sport in men's bobsleigh.
20:09It's the fastest, most dangerous.
20:11Go, go, go, go!
20:13So it's the funnest to drive, as well.
20:16Yeah, it would be like 152, 153 kilometers an hour today.
20:20Top speed, 150 kilometers an hour.
20:23The track is clear for candidate team Pat Norton from Bob Star.
20:28Go, go, go, go!
20:30It's good, it's good, it's good.
20:32Today we're going to see spicy ice.
20:35Bumsling in track.
20:37It was cold last night, and it's clear blue skies today,
20:43which is just a recipe for fast ice.
20:46149 top speed here for Canada's Pat North.
20:53A track is clear for Australia team,
20:55Reece Peters from Bumstar.
20:56When the ice is hard...
20:58Come on, guys! Let's go!
21:00Way less grip,
21:02so obviously that's a lot harder to drive.
21:14Okay, Dearborn underway with a 515.
21:16Come on, Shannon!
21:17Providing the grunt for him.
21:19Come on, go ahead and wake up, baby!
21:21So right now, it's the pre-Olympic season.
21:25The pressure's starting to mount up.
21:26You're really starting to see how you stack up against the world,
21:29and you're starting to see where the chips fall as far as your chances at the Olympics.
21:32Top speed 150, top speed.
21:35Great effort there.
21:36Jay Dearborn across 5225.
21:39That's good enough for second place there.
21:42Come on, Shane! Wake up!
21:44So qualifying for the Olympics is based off of your ranking points you get from all the different circuits that
21:51you race on.
21:51The North American Cup, the Europe Cup, and the World Cup.
21:55That creates a ranking list of athletes.
21:57Ready?
21:58Come on, Green Boyd!
21:59Come on, Shane!
22:02And if you're inside of that, you go, and if you're outside of that, you don't go.
22:07Track is clear for Canada. Keep Taylor Austin from Popstar.
22:13Come on, Shane!
22:16Back, dude!
22:17Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
22:19Off sleigh 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.
22:35This 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,
22:49sitting comfortably on top of the board.
22:54Woo!
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.
23:04There's a lot of potential on Taylor's team.
23:08When it comes down to it, the coaches are going to make the teams for World Championships.
23:11We're going to put our best foot forward, and everybody's going to want to be on that top 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.
24:01I started hanging with, like, wrong people.
24:04And I was getting lost.
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, it's 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.
24:41I was like, holy crap, this thing is fast for real, man.
24:50So, the 2014 Olympics was coming up.
24:54Russia, Sochi, but I ended up like that.
24:57I just became a despair.
24:58That'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.
25:14I saw the Canadian team compete.
25:17Crips team.
25:19Got the bronze medal, and when I saw him coming out of the sled screaming and crying,
25:23I cried too.
25:25And that day, it's like, I'm back to this.
25:30My roots, I take everywhere I go.
25:33I'm Brazilian.
25:34But I want to represent Canada because that was the country that showed me a 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, not only with Brazil,
25:54but with the country that I was born to.
25:56New 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.
26:03Core run number two for a little bit.
26:05Six seconds off.
26:07Let's go, Boca.
26:08Come on, Team Grey, let's go.
26:10Come on, Boca.
26:12Come on.
26:14We're the underdogs and we're just here to prove a point right now.
26:17We got the best pushing athletes on the team.
26:19Everybody knows it.
26:21And Taylor's the best driver that we have in our program in the country and one of the best in
26:25the 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 Kenner, Cyrus Grey, Shaq Murray Lawrence, Chris Homestead, and De Sousa.
26:43Come on, Boca.
26:44Come on, baby.
26:45Come on, we got it.
26:53Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
26:56Popsle in track.
26:57And here comes Cyrus Grey and his guys, Murray Lawrence, Homestead, and De Sousa.
27:034-9-4, Chris Sub-5, the push we've seen here.
27:08Some of the most powerful pushers that we have here in Canada.
27:13Grey already bumped him up.
27:17Run here for Cyrus, high through 16, gets it down okay.
27:21148 is the top speed, 52-33 is the finish, sliding Cyrus Grey and his crew into 5th position after
27:277 sleds down.
27:35We didn't double check the brakes.
27:37We passed up probably 120.
27:41I mean, we got the oldest sled in the field, so I'm yanking on them, I'm pulling them as hard
27:46as I can.
27:46They're not catching, and we're just praying, hoping we slow down.
27:50But we're okay, we're good, we're safe, and we're ready to go again.
27:54All right, we'll take a look at the leaderboard here while we are getting that sled back.
27:58Bit of an overshoot there for the team.
28:02Third place, Dearborn.
28:03And second place, Norton.
28:04And first place, Austin.
28:06That is after 7 sleds.
28:08There it go, there it go, Chris.
28:10What an ankle, Shane.
28:12What an ankle, baby!
28:13What are we talking about here?
28:15Today's been driving good, and even with a new crew.
28:17Yeah, they're doing good.
28:19I 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 faster
28:27at the top.
28:28Yeah.
28:29We're two minutes to start for the men.
28:31Two minutes to start.
28:32Men'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.
28:52Oh, four seconds ahead of the field.
28:55What a run.
28:56USA's Grady Mercer down 53-2-3.
28:58Two runs for him at 146-3-1.
29:04Track is clear for candidate team Cyrus Gray.
29:07Let's go, boys.
29:08Big push.
29:10Come on, boys!
29:12Let's go!
29:13There's advantages to being the underdog.
29:15I mean, it gives you that drive, right?
29:20Let's go!
29:21Big, big, big!
29:24Here comes Gray with the big guys behind him.
29:26They're 4-9-2.
29:28Nice!
29:29That's push.
29:32It's pressure in a different way.
29:33If you're the top person, you have every advantage, then you feel this pressure of you have to win versus
29:40the underdog.
29:40You've got nothing to lose.
29:42You're always pushing up.
29:4316-3-6.
29:43Past corner three.
29:45Nine tenths.
29:46Now 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.
29:57148 kilometers an hour.
29:58Good speed here for Cyrus Gray and his crew.
30:01One in 0.85 seconds into first place.
30:03They go 3-10-2 runs at 144.
30:09Push time was the best of the day.
30:13Let's go!
30:14You've got to wake up!
30:15Fastest team on the field.
30:18Cyrus drove amazing on the second run.
30:22Cyrus crashed last week.
30:24Lost a little bit of his confidence.
30:25But he got his confidence back.
30:28He got his soul back.
30:29You've got to believe in the underdogs, man.
30:31You've got to believe!
30:33Cyrus drove great in the second heat.
30:35First run was a little shaky, but he really laid down a good one 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've got Taylor, who's a phenomenal driver.
30:47He'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.
30:53I mean, nobody was worried about us at the start of this.
30:56And now I think we got everybody's attention for sure.
31:00I would be worried if I was him.
31:03I mean, he should be.
31:05Woo!
31:05Come on, boys.
31:07Taylor doesn't have the best pushes right now.
31:09Those guys are young, inexperienced.
31:11They will get better.
31:13But for now, he's just relying on his driving ability.
31:15Track is clear for Canada Team Taylor Austin.
31:19Shane told me something, buddy.
31:21Come on!
31:21Come on, Shane!
31:23Yeah, yeah!
31:24Come on!
31:27Fuck!
31:31And final block in track.
31:33This is it for all the marbles.
31:35This is Canada Team Taylor Austin on board.
31:38Orton, Zenette, and Ezra Parkinson.
31:42Stop 5 push in.
31:44It's 498.
31:46Ford pants up.
31:4739.24 out of 11 down onto Gold Rush Trail.
31:51Tower.
31:52Speed here.
31:53This is Taylor Austin across 52.03.
31:56Two runs for him at 143.92.
31:59That's good enough for first place there.
32:02After all nine sleds down, third place, Bindalati.
32:05Second place, Grave.
32:06First place, Taylor Austin.
32:12Proud of the boys today.
32:13They stepped up.
32:13Had to get a good couple of pushes.
32:15You know, I'm happy to come away with the win.
32:17One, two, three.
32:24One, two, three.
32:24One, two, three.
32:26So close to be Taylor today.
32:28We got one more time tomorrow.
32:30We're gonna come with the same intensity,
32:32same work ethic,
32:34and 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 gonna work today.
33:14Welcome back to a subsiding center
33:16for North America's cup box sleigh.
33:18The men's four-man race number two.
33:21The NAC race has two days of four-man racing,
33:24so you can actually get double the amount of points
33:26in a short amount of time
33:27than you would on the World Cup circuit.
33:29Man, I got a question.
33:30You think I gotta rinse this out from yesterday?
33:32Nah.
33:34Let's go.
33:34Yeah, yeah.
33:35This is when science meets jock.
33:38So we start off with a dirty shaker cup
33:41from yesterday.
33:42From yesterday.
33:43With a little bit of residue in it
33:44from whatever I made.
33:46We clean alkaline water,
33:49Cesar.
33:50Cesar, one full scoop?
33:51I got one and a half.
33:53Cesar wants to die.
33:54Cesar?
33:54I don't wanna die like that.
33:57Cesar, I'm giving you a good amount.
34:01That was it.
34:02It's time to take a sip, baby.
34:06Oh.
34:08Let's go.
34:09Everybody's got us counted out,
34:11and that's what we're going for.
34:12Another upset special.
34:14You got this, man.
34:19One forty-six dump speed here for the Australian Camp Sky,
34:23this team.
34:23Fifty-four two-one finish.
34:26Ah!
34:33The track is clear for candidate team Cyrus Gray
34:36from Bob's start.
34:39Go, go, go, go!
34:41Go, go!
34:42Go, go, go!
34:44Gray was a pretty decent lead.
34:45One hundred fifty fastest speed we've seen.
34:48There he is into the number one spot.
34:50Boom.
34:50Cyrus Gray.
34:51Ninth king one hundred.
34:52First place.
34:5352.05.
34:59The brakes are not perfect right now,
35:01but it's better than yesterday.
35:02We fixed it.
35:03Let's see how it's gonna be.
35:06This is Canada's Taylor Austin.
35:08One hundred fifty is the speed,
35:11and it's just like that.
35:12One hundred'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 ten hundred's behind Taylor's team.
35:23We're going for top spot.
35:26Let's take him!
35:28Let's take him!
35:28The track is clear for candidate team Cyrus Gray
35:31from Bob's start.
35:35Pick up!
35:36Come on, baby!
35:37Wake up!
35:38Let's go, boys!
35:39Let's hit it!
35:40Watch that!
35:40Let's go!
35:50Move up, move up, move up, move up, move up, move up!
35:53Buxley, and track team Avengers Taylor Austin.
35:56It's all started.
35:59Push bar is out!
36:00Push bar is out!
36:02Stand back!
36:03Stand back!
36:05So I think there's a push bar malfunction.
36:08So, like, the pilot push bar didn't actually lock in.
36:11like you punch that lever and it's supposed to drop now you don't see that every day
36:19hopefully we get that slip back into the sled six 100s in front
36:31hold that star and hold that star
36:56come on
37:04let's give it
37:14the device to open
37:15the device to open
37:19stop stop stop stop
37:21call I don't need doctor man I'm good
37:24it didn't work
37:25you tried I saw you tried
37:37push by is going to be your
37:39rack there
37:41Yeah.
37:42Oh, man.
37:43Oh, man.
37:44Oh, man.
37:44Where's that?
37:45Yeah, that's 13.
37:49Shoot.
37:59We thought you had it close.
38:01He's driving.
38:02I know.
38:03I'm driving with one hand.
38:06Can you believe in that?
38:12We walked down.
38:14Did anyone notice any sort of ips in the body?
38:16I think we should talk about some hands.
38:18Hard, hard, hard.
38:32Taylor Austin, Cape Canada, having a blinder of a series here
38:36for North America's Cup.
38:38Good speed at 150 kilometers an hour.
38:41What do you expect?
38:42And there it is.
38:435189 is the finish.
38:44Taylor Austin into the number one spot with the 14383.
38:49And with that, it includes North America's Cup off 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.
39:11Common accord.
39:13I'm sorry.
39:14Yeah.
39:15It's all good.
39:16I know what you're saying.
39:17You're not so happy.
39:21Well, you know.
39:23We did what we could.
39:26You did so well, man.
39:29You know, when I look back on the athletes that have achieved Olympic medals, they all have
39:35some type of massive disappointment in their career that lit a fire under them to do that extra next
39:41thing that takes them from being that top six or top eight person to standing on top of the podium.
39:51And 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.
40:22Woo!
40:24Nice!
40:27I'm excited to see what I can do in the next two years, what the team around me can bring.
40:31Tastes 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, I'd love to see them racing me at the
40:39World 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 straight 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, we would definitely make some noise.
40:54You did a great job going down with that thing of opening.
40:57So close.
40:58So close to the table.
40:59So close.
40:59These guys stay hungry.
41:01Real good.
41:02As a younger driver or a newer driver, your 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, you've got to beat a World Cup sled.
41:13We're within five hundreds of guys we've 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, the 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.
41:32Team on me.
41:32One, two, three.
41:33Team!
41:33The team is very united right now.
41:36We're working hard.
41:38But Taylor is the best pilot on the Canadian system.
41:42And being so close to him, just a little bit frustrated, you know?
41:47We just don't have the equipment that will help us to achieve the highest place in the
41:53podium yet.
41:55The underdogs, man.
41:56We don't stop until we get it.
41:59If you don't beat your own teammates, you don't get to go compete against the rest of
42:04the world at the highest level.
42:06But eventually you have to work with your opponents on your own team to push each other
42:11and work together so that you can beat the rest of the world.
42:30Training, working, and being in a team is very important to me.
42:36Because at the end of the day, I want 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, I say, I will be
43:02one of the best on this team.
43:04and, um, I'll prove to you guys how it will be.
43:07Go!
43:08Go!
43:08Go!
43:08Go!
43:09Go!
43:10Go!
43:12Go!
43:13Go!
43:13Go!
43:14Go!
43:16Go!
43:17Go!
43:17Go!
43:19Go!
43:20Go!
43:23Go!
43:27Go!
43:29Go!
43:41We'll see you next time.
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