CALGARY — Potential is a magic word for Kelsey Mitchell.

The Olympic gold medallist in track cycling heard it at a spring bobsled tryout camp and went all in.

“They said I had potential,” Mitchell said Friday in Calgary. “That’s my favourite word ever.”

Mitchell will travel with the Canadian bobsled team Sunday to a training camp in Whistler, B.C.

Canada’s bob and skeleton team opens the World Cup season Nov. 21-23 in Cortina, Italy, at the sliding venue for February’s Winter Olympic Games.

Mitchell won cycling gold in the women’s sprint in Tokyo in 2021. She didn’t own a bike when she was recruited into the sport four years earlier.

A fast learner in track cycling, the 31-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., hopes to also be a quick study in bobsled. Mitchell had tried bobsled at age

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