Canada's de Bruin delivers monobob bronze as Humphries goes for gold in 1st Olympics with U.S.

Canada's Christine de Bruin has reached the podium in the Olympic debut of monobob.

The Stony Plain, Alta., native raced to bronze on Monday at the National Sliding Centre in Yanqing, a district of Beijing.

Kaillie Humphries, who competed for Canada at the previous three Games before splitting with the team and joining the U.S., won gold to become the inaugural Olympic monobob champion.

Elana Meyers Taylor joined her teammate on the podium with silver.

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