Kaillie Humphries, who hopes to compete for U.S. in Olympics, finishes bobsled sweep

Kaillie Humphries wasn’t sure if she would get a chance to race this season. She ended up on top of the world — twice.

Humphries, 35, ended her international racing season Sunday by rallying to win the inaugural women’s monobob world championship in Altenberg, Germany, adding that gold medal to the one she and Lolo Jones combined to claim on the same track last week.

There is no question about the gold-medal favorite going into the Olympic season, with two medal events awaiting women’s bobsledders at next winter’s Beijing Games for the first time.

“To be able to end on a high, I really just continue to think that I am so grateful to be here,” Humphries said. “To be representing the United States and to be able to compete is such a huge honor.”

It was her fifth world championship, her third in three tries since getting her release from the Canadian program and beginning to slide for the U.S.in 2019. If Humphries — a two-time Olympic gold medalist who is married to an American — is going to race for the U.S. in next winter’s Beijing Games, she needs to obtain citizenship in the coming months.

Humphries’ final time for four runs over two days was 3 minutes, 59.62 seconds — a half-second better than anyone else. Germans took silver and bronze.

Kriechmayr matches

two greats of skiing

A feat previously achieved only by two legends of men’s Alpine skiing was matched by Austrian skier Vincent Kriechmayr at the world championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Kriechmayr added downhill gold to the super-G title he won three days earlier to complete the so-called speed double.

Fellow Austrian Hermann Maier had done the same in 1999,...