By Dan Plouffe With Ottawa native and 2018 Olympic curling champion John Morris landing in Calgary (his long-time residence), there was no denying a tone of disappointment for the Ottawa Olympians returning home from the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games on Feb. 26. Many experienced injuries, equipment trouble and pure heartbreak as a number…
By Dan Plouffe When rocketing around corners down a frozen course at over 100 km/h, one wrong turn can be disastrous for a skeleton racer. But for Ottawa native Mimi Rahneva, a wrong turn wound up giving her skeleton career an instrumental twist on her path to the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. In the dead…
By Michael Sun Seyi Smith’s bobsleigh career only began a few months ago at the WinSport training facility in Calgary. The Olympic sprinter-turned-bobsledder had been training around other Olympic athletes to stay in shape after retiring from track two years ago. “The consistency from being around other athletes sort of brought me back into it,”…
Seyi Smith describes going down an icy chute in a bobsled like “somebody puts you into a trash can, throws you off a cliff, and then somebody’s sitting on your back on the way down.”
