Canadian Olympic bobsleigh champion Justin Kripps retiring after 16-year career

Canadian Olympic bobsleigh champion Justin Kripps is retiring.

Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton announced in an Instagram post that the 35-year-old from Summerland, B.C., was calling it a career, along with two other members of his four-man crew that captured bronze at the Beijing Olympics — Ryan Sommer and Cam Stones.

Kripps raced to gold in the two-man bobsleigh at the 2018 Games and bronze in the four-man at the Beijing Olympics this past winter.

He also won two silver and three bronze world championship medals in various disciplines over his career.

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