Olympians mark Olympic Day with fond memories
Olympic Day comes around once a year.
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Past, present, (near) future Olympians and several Canadian sport organizations took to social media on Thursday, some to reminisce but all to celebrate the day recalling some of their favourite memories.
Speed Skating
Speed Skating Canada wishes everyone a happy Olympic Day equipped with photos from Vancouver 2010. Canada won nine speed skating medals at its last home Olympic Games, with four of them gold.
Caroline Calve
Caroline Calve first debuted in Vancouver 2010 in parallel giant slalom and returned for Sochi 2014. Calve has been competing internationally since 2005 and is a veteran on the women’s alpine snowboard team.
Travis Gerrits
Freestyle skiier Travis Gerrits won silver in the 2013 world championships to earn a berth at Sochi 2014, his first Olympic Games. Gerrits recently received the HBC bursary to help with his training as he moves forward in his career.
Tory Nyhaug
Tory Nyhaug made his debut in London 2012 as Canada’s lone BMX racer and is a Rio 2016 hopeful. Nyhaug won gold at TO2015 and recently had a string of top finishes at world cup events.
Inaki Gomez
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Racewalker Inaki Gomez had set the Canadian 20 kilometre record at London 2012 (which now belongs to teammate Ben Thorne) and will be looking at another strong Games outing at Rio 2016.
Katerine Savard
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Katerine Savard will be heading to her second Olympics after competing in London. Savard was a triple medallist at TO2015 and will be heading to Rio as part of one of Canada’s strongest Olympic swim teams in recent memory.
Mercedes Nicoll
Mercedes Nicoll is a snowboarding veteran who has competed in three Olympic Games to date. She has been representing Canada internationally on big stages since 1999.
Hilary Caldwell
Hilary Caldwell made her Olympic debut in London competing in the 200m backstroke and is returning to the Games once again. Caldwell won silver in that event during TO2015 and now heads to Rio as a squad veteran.
Maxime Dafour Lapointe
Maxime Dufour-Lapointe made her Olympic debut during Sochi2014 in moguls. She has been competing internationally since 2007 and is the oldest of three sisters who all competed at the last Winter Games, two of whom – Justine and Chloe – took gold and silver.
Katrina Cameron
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Katrina Cameron competed in London 2012 as a member of the rhythmic gymnastics team. This was the first time Canada had ever qualified a rhythmic team to the Olympic Games.
Andrew Poje
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Andrew Poje and partner Kaitlyn Weaver represented Canada in ice dance for Sochi 2014 and are eagerly working towards Pyeongchang 2018. Poje and Weaver are two-time world championship medallists.
