Canada set for women’s doubles luge debut
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On their first day of a get-to-know-you summer trip together, Kailey Allan saw Beattie Podulsky get scared by a spider web and fall down a hill.
MILAN – On their first day of a get-to-know-you summer trip together, Kailey Allan saw Beattie Podulsky get scared by a spider web and fall down a hill.
The Calgarians will be the first women representing Canada in women’s doubles luge, making its Olympic debut at the Cortina Sliding Centre in Italy. Women’s doubles Wednesday is a two-run event.
Allan, 22, and Podulsky, 20, didn’t know each other well before they slid down a track together for the first time in October of 2024.
They tried to develop chemistry and communication on the fly in their inaugural season as a duo.
The women decided to work on those elements of their partnership by taking a trip together last summer to New Zealand, where they drove around and lived in a van for two weeks.
“She touches a spider web on a fence, she falls down a hill, and then she rips open her Croc on a nail, her sock, and cut her toe on the first day we were there,” Allan recalled. “I was barely even out of the van, and I just saw her tumble down the hill.”
Explained Podulsky: “I got scared. I wanted to pet the cows, so I pulled over, and I touched the fence and there was a spider web, and I went ‘ah!’ and I cut my toe on some random metal thing, and I ripped my sock and my Croc.”
Nothing like a moment of physical comedy to see each other in a new light.
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