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CALGARY -- The defending Olympic womens bobsled champions are back in the same sled once again. Canadas Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse will reunite at this weekends season-opening World Cup at Canada Olympic Park as they begin their buildup to the Winter Games in Sochi. Humphries won a world title last year and has reached the podium at 13 straight events. Moyse, who competed in track cycling and rugby while taking a break from bobsled, has returned in top form after undergoing hip surgery a year ago. The veteran brakeman from Summerside, P.E.I., has set personal-best start times since coming back and won a push challenge event last weekend. She also set a new start record during selection races in Whistler, B.C. "That just made me excited about what I can possibly contribute and what I can give back to this team this year," Moyse said in a recent interview. "Because of that excitement and being named to the team as Canada 1 and being put into Kaillies sled, I think that excitement is just transcending. "Kaillie and I are both really excited about what we can do and what we can possibly experience this year." Humphries and Moyse first started sliding together in January 2009 and won Olympic gold a year later. Off and on, they have spent about 2 1/2 years together as a duo. They were all smiles after two practice runs on Thursday. "It went straight to comfortable mode," Humphries said of being back with her old partner. "I know shes in the best shape shes ever been in and its really exciting going into this season." Humphries, from Calgary, won the overall World Cup title last season with Chelsea Valois of Zenon Park, Sask. Valois will team with Edmontons Jenny Ciochetti in the Canada 2 sled for the season opener. Moyse suffered a serious ankle injury at the 2010 Rugby World Cup. She later took up track cycling before deciding about a year and a half ago to concentrate on both bobsled and rugby. She underwent hip surgery last fall and now feels as strong as ever entering the Olympic season. Her performance at testing made the decision to return to the Canada 1 sled with Humphries an easy one. "Based on the results, it was a no-brainer in terms of teaming us up together," Moyse said. There will be some changes in the mens sleds as well. Pilot Chris Spring of Calgary will team with Jesse Lumsden of Burlington, Ont., in the two-man and four-man sleds. Lumsden won the World Cup title with pilot Lyndon Rush of Humboldt, Sask., last season. Spring and Lumsden will be joined by Ottawas Cody Sorensen and Ben Coakwell of Saskatoon in the four-man sled. Rush will team with Calgary brakeman Lascelles Brown in the two-man and four-man sleds. David Bissett and Neville Wright, both of Edmonton, will join them in the four-man. The other Canadian sled will feature Justin Kripps of Summerland, B.C., who will drive Torontos Tim Randall, James MacNaughton of Newmarket, Ont., and Graeme Rinholm of Medicine Hat, Alta. The Canadian skeleton team is also looking strong this season. Calgarys Sarah Reid, who won bronze at the 2013 world championship, leads the womens side this week. She will be joined by Cassie Hawrysh of Brandon, Man., and Calgarys Robynne Thompson. The mens lineup for the season opener includes Eric Neilson of Kelowna, B.C., and Calgary-based racers John Fairbairn and Dave Greszczyszyn. "We have a really strong team," Neilson said. "We came out in selections, thats always the most stressful part. So the team is ready to go." Mellisa Hollingsworth of Eckville, Alta., and 2010 Olympic champion Jon Montgomery of Russell, Man., will open the season on the Intercontinental Cup circuit. Athletes can qualify for Sochi while competing on that circuit or at the World Cup level. Some 350 skeleton and bobsled competitors from 30 countries are expected to participate this week, including World Cup four-man champ Alexsandr Zubkov of Russia and World Cup skeleton champions Martins Dukurs of Latvia and Marion Thees of Germany. Competition kicks off Friday afternoon with the skeleton races. The two-man bobsled follows in the evening. On Saturday, the four-man bobsled is set for the morning with the womens bobsled .1 million contract. The club said that Boll will earn $950,000 in 2012-13 and $1.15 million in 2013-14. The 26-year-old Boll had two goals and one assist with 126 penalty minutes in 54 games with the Blue Jackets in 2011-12. . Now, the hottest team on the ATP are pointing their sights on qualifying for the eight-team season finals in London next November. Pospisil has now established the year-end World Tour Finals as the benchmark for a breakthrough season, with Pospisil and Sock provisionally standing ninth. http://www.prochiefsauthentic.com/Youth ... te-Jersey/. - The New England Patriots needed help on defence so they added three experienced players at midseason. . 3. Trevor Ariza left them talkin about 40. Ariza made eight 3-pointers and scored a career-high 40 points to help the Washington Wizards win their sixth straight game, 122-103 over Philadelphia on Saturday night. . Murakami gracefully executed a double triple toe jump and a triple flip jump that put her at the top of a tightly contested race with 64.73 points, just ahead of Li Zijun of China on 62.Canada: 6 W - 1 T - 0 L, Gold Medal Team Canada was its typical deep and well-balanced self in 1994 and, against an unspectacular field, that was more than good enough for gold. Canada put together a 6-0-1 record to beat Sweden by a single point in the standings. Canada had beaten the Swedes 6-4 in their head-to-head meeting and tied the third place Russians to clinch the gold. The 1994 tournament in Ostrava, Czech Republic, was a relatively low-scoring event. Martin Gendron led the team in scoring with 10 points, including six goals. In all, nine Canadians scored at least twice, proving their depth once again. The solid team effort was evident in the fact that no Canadian player was named to the tournament all-star team. Goaltender Jamie Storr was, however, named the top goaltender even though he split time with Manny Fernandez. Thats not to say there were no great players on the team. Jason Allison, Anson Carter, Mike Peca and Jeff Friesen would all find their niche in the upper echelons of the NHL in future years. The defence corps was young but solid, led by returning stalwarts Brent Tully and Nick Stajduhar. Future NHLers Brendan Witt and Bryan McCabe showed their stuff, too. In all, there were nine first round NHL Draft picks on the roster. The victory gave Canada back-to-back titles for the second time, sparking an unprecedented run of five straight golds. Final Standings TEAM GP W L T GF GA PTS Canada 7 6 0 1 39 20 13 Sweden 7 6 1 0 35 16 12 Russia 7 5 1 1 23 17 11 Finland 7 4 3 0 27 24 8 Czech Rep. 7 3 4 0 31 29 6 United States 7 1 5 1 20 33 3 Germany 7 1 6 0 10 26 2 Switzerland 7 0 6 1 10 30 1 Team Canada Roster (GP - G - A - Pts) Martin Gendron (7 - 6 - 4 - 10) Yannick Dube (7 - 5 - 5 - 10) Rick Girard (7 - 6 - 3 - 9) Jason Allison (7 - 3 - 6 - 9) Todd Harvey (7 - 4 - 3 - 7) Aaron Gavey (7 - 4 - 2 - 6) Anson Carter (7 - 3 - 2 - 5) Nick Stajduhar (7 - 1 - 4 - 5) Mike Peca (7 - 2 - 2 - 4) Marty Murray (7 - 1 - 3 - 4) Drew Bannister (7 - 0 - 4 - 4) Curtis Bowen (7 - 2 - 0 - 0) Jeff Friesen (5 - 0 - 2 - 2) Brandon Convery (7 - 1 - 0 - 1) Jason Botterill (6 - 1 - 0 - 1) Joel Bouchard (7 - 0 - 1 - 1) Brent Tully (7 - 0 - 1 - 1) Chris Armstrong (6 - 0 - 1 - 1) Brendan Witt (7 - 0 - 0 - 0) Bryan McCabe (7 - 0 - 0 - 0) Team Canada Goaltending (W-L-T - GAA - SO) Jamie Storr (3-0-1 - 2.dddddddddddd50 - 0) Manny Fernandez (3-0-0 - 3.33 - 0) Tournament All-Stars G - Evgeni Ryabchikov (RUS) F - Valeri Bure (RUS) D - Kenny Jonsson (SWE) F - Niklas Sundstrom (SWE) D - Kimmo Timonen (FIN) F - David Vyborny (CZE) Top Scorers PLAYER GP G A P Niklas Sundstrom (SWE) 7 4 7 11 Martin Gendron (CAN) 7 6 4 10 Yannick Dube (CAN) 7 5 5 10 Rick Girard (CAN) 7 6 3 9 Mats Lindgren (SWE) 7 5 4 9 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 ' ' '