Canadian Kaillie Humphries opened the Olympic bobsled season by beating her U.S. rivals on American ice in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Humphries, bidding in PyeongChang to be the first bobsledder to win the same Olympic event three times, topped reigning world champion Elana Meyers Taylor by .03 of a second over two runs Thursday.
Jamie Greubel Poser, the reigning World Cup season champion, was fourth, .21 back.
Humphries, Meyers Taylor and Greubel Poser made up the Sochi Olympic podium and are clearly favored to do so again in PyeongChang.
They combined to win the last 20 World Cup races dating to January 2015.