Humphries' legal battle with Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton subject of documentary

In her golden moment atop the medal podium in Beijing, as the U.S. flag was raised, Kaillie Humphries says a couple of Canadian team executives turned their back.

Humphries had just become the first woman in history to win Olympic gold medals for two different countries. After four years of living in limbo that saw her receive the American citizenship that even allowed her to compete for the U.S. less than two months earlier, she sang along to The Star-Spangled Banner.

The 36-year-old reigning world bobsleigh champion said it was a moment of pure joy and triumph, and not about turning her back on a country she'd felt in some ways had turned its back on her.

"I haven't given up on being Canadian. I'm a dual citizen," Humphries said from Carlsbad, Calif., where the Calgary-born athlete lives with husband Travis Armbruster, a former U.S. bobsledder. "I love Canada. But I also love the United States. We are not a women's hockey game when it comes to my life and my career. It's not one over the other, one is not greater or worse."

"For me, winning was a huge part of being able to celebrate with people that believed in me when I didn't necessarily believe in myself, and when I was going through one of the hardest times of my life."

Her battle back to the top of the podium for a new team amid an ugly legal battle with Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton will be chronicled in a documentary Uphill Slide: The Kaillie Humphries Story, set to be released later this year or early 2023.

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"We think it's really important for Kaillie to be able to tell her story," said Scott Moore, CEO of production company The Good Karma Company. "There was a narrative that clearly is turning