Kripps said he'll miss those shared moments with his crew the most. Kripps, who said he'd spent most of Thursday reminiscing as he read messages and comments about his retirement on social media, also has a pair of silver medals and three bronze at world championships.ĭuration 4: Olympic champion pilot in two-man bobsleigh, Justin Kripps of Summerland, B.C., won the bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh event at Beijing 2022. 'I want to put that energy somewhere else.' 'I felt like I had accomplished more than I set out to and I sort of had this realization that, now that I've done the four-man medal, and I'd done it with that team where we stayed the four years, and it was such a Cinderella story, and then having a gold in the two-man, it was just kind of like: where's the motivation going to come from to work as hard as I would have to for another four years?' Kripps said in a phone interview. Canada's Justin Kripps steers 4-man bobsleigh crew to bronze medal.

Canada's Kripps, Kopacz tie Germany for 2-man bobsleigh gold.The 35-year-old from Summerland, B.C., announced his retirement on Thursday, along with Sommer and Stones. And so, when Kripps recently pondered his future after having ticked more boxes than he'd ever imagined, he decided it was time to move on.

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