Posts Tagged ‘olympics’
Private jets, gold medals and roses
August 25th, 2010
Like the best of the best hockey players don’t get paid enough by their NHL clubs, Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland also wants a private jet to get them home to North America. What if, Holland posits, a player is in the gold-medal game on Sunday and has to be back in North
Moving on … my Olympic dream, part II
March 9th, 2010
Every once in a while, I’ll Google my own name. Until I blasted my name all over social media networks, my results were populated by bylines from the Calgary Sun. But as my former newspaper started to archive stories off the web, my results list started to dwindle, my bylines were disappearing. I started to
My Olympic dream
February 13th, 2010
We trained alongside Robyn Meagher at the track field. We knew her dedication and commitment to long-distance running. It was many years later she realized her dream of running for Canada at the Olympics … was it 1992 in Barcelona? I never had such fantastic dreams for my athletics. Maybe I’d set the bar as
