Team USA landed a pair of podiums in the opening two-woman bobsled race of the 2025-26 World Cup season, putting the world on notice going into an Olympic year.

Kaysha Love piloted her sled into a second silver medal finish of the weekend, running alongside brake woman Azaria Hill. The pair were 4th after the first heat, but a swift second run helped launch them onto the second step of the podium, finishing 0.77 seconds off first place.

This was Love’s first time finishing 2nd in a two-woman World Cup event, and caps a brilliant start to the season for Team USA’s fastest rising star. Love also secured 2nd place in the monobob event and has established herself as a clear threat to Germany’s Laura Nolte, who won both events during the opening weekend.

Joining Love on the podium was U.S. bobsled veteran Kaillie Humphries, who locked in her first podium finish of the 2025-26 World Cup season. She finished in 3rd place with brake woman Sylvia Hoffman, just two tenths of a second behind Love and Hill.

After a difficult opening race in the monobob event, Elana Meyers Taylor bounced back with a strong performance in the two-woman race, finishing in 6th with partner Jasmine Jones. The duo were three tenths behind Love and Hill and just over a minute behind first place.

The two opening races in the women’s bobsled competition have revealed just how close, and deep, the pool of talent will be heading into the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, when the athletes will return to this same track in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Nolte, Love and Humphries all have had thrilling starts to the season, while Meyers Taylor looms as a perennial threat just behind them, paving the way for an epic showdown in February.

The men's 4-man event closed out the weekend's action, with the German squad putting on a clinic en route to taking first and second place. For the U.S., Kristopher Horn piloted his squad to a 7th-place finish after going 5th fastest in run two. The other two sleds for Team USA finished in 16th and 26th.

IBSF World Cup action will resume this following weekend, when athletes travel to Innsbruck, Austria. The men's skeleton race will be first, kicking off at 3 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, November 28.