Young Canadian relay team claims bronze at luge world championships in Whistler, B.C.

Canada's young luge team came into the world championships in Whistler, B.C., looking for experience.

The experience they already possessed paid off in a big way Saturday when the squad used their knowledge of the tricky home track to capture bronze in the team relay.

"It doesn't even feel real," said Embyr-Lee Susko, who raced the women's singles portion of the four-leg race.

"And then for us to be able to pull this off altogether as a team, it really shows how solid we are as a team on this track. ... We took hundreds of runs here, and it showed today with the consistency that we were able to have across all of our slides."

Devin Wardrope and Cole Anthony Zajanski raced the men's doubles portion for Canada, while Theo Downey took care of the men's singles. Beattie Podulsky and Kailey Allan capped the performance with the women's doubles.

The Canadians posted a time of two minutes 51.641 seconds.

They were 1.280 seconds behind a German team that claimed its fourth gold of the week, thanks to Julia Taubitz (women's singles), Hannes Orlamuender and Paul Constantin Gubitz (men's doubles), Max Langenhan (men's singles), and Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal (women's doubles).

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Austria grabbed silver, its third medal of the 2025 world championships.

Several of the nine nations competing in the team relay struggled toward the end of the icy track.

Latvia's women's doubles team of Marta Robezniece and Kitija Bogdanova crashed and flipped their sled. They were helped off the track and did not finish the race.

The American men's doubles sled of Marcus Mueller and Ansel Haugsjaa skidded