Comparing Bree’s Training Runs to Others
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After four training runs, Bremerton’s Bree Schaaf looks to be
competitive on the Whistler Sliding Center course. Of course, she
figured to be. It’s the track she’s most familiar with and she and
brakeman Emily Azevedo, the former track star from Chico, Calif.,
placed sixth in a World Cup race here last season.
Schaaf’s best time was 53.96 seconds on Saturday. It was the
eight-best time during the first run. She had the sixth-best time
in her second run (54.17). On Sunday, the Olympic High grad posted
the seventh-best time (54.00) on her first run and ninth-best
(54.20) on the second run. So she’s been consistent, which is a
good thing. She said she’s got more speed in her, but I’m sure the
other bobsledders are thinking the same thing.
After four training runs (there’s two more today), Canada’s Kallie
Humphries has established herself as the one to beat. Humphries has
posted the top time in three of the four runs and she was second in
the fourth. Her times: 53.24, 53.60, 53.32, 53.20. Teammate Helen
Upperson has had the fastest time, 53.16 on her first run Sunday,
and has also been consistent.
The others who’ve stood out include (no surprise) the Germans.
Sandra Kiriasis has been between 53.50 and 53.74 on all four of her
runs and Cathleen Martni has had a best of 53.59 with her others in
the 53.80s. Shana Rohbock, a gold medalist at Salt Lake, is the top
hope for the Americans and she’s training well with a best of
53.48. Erin Pac of the U.S., a medal hopeful, was all tears after
her second run on Monday night. She’s battling a hamstring injury
and she’ll likely take today off to make sure she can compete on
Tuesday.
I think those are you medal favorites. And if you believe in body
language and all of that, I’d throw Bree into the mix. I think
she’ll be ready to rock (and hopefully not roll).
– Chuck Stark
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
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