{"id":13212,"date":"2011-09-18T21:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T01:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/team-canada\/george-hungerford-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T14:17:25","slug":"george-hungerford","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/george-hungerford\/","title":{"rendered":"George Hungerford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c9cart\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00e9quipage d\u2019aviron \u00e0 huit quelques mois avant le d\u00e9but de <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1964-tokyo\/\">Tokyo 1964<\/a> en raison d\u2019un s\u00e9rieux cas de mononucl\u00e9ose, Hungerford a tout de m\u00eame fait le voyage au Japon en tant que rempla\u00e7ant. Au sein de cette \u00e9quipe qui n&rsquo;a presque jamais vu le jour, Hungerford a \u00e9t\u00e9 jumel\u00e9 \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/roger-jackson\/\">Roger Jackson<\/a> (de qui le partenaire initial \u00e9tait bless\u00e9) quand on a \u00e9ventuellement permis au Canada de pr\u00e9senter une \u00e9quipe \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve du deux de pointe sans barreur. \u00c0 leur toute premi\u00e8re course ensemble, les Canadiens ont surpris tout le monde en remportant leur vague et plus tard en acc\u00e9dant \u00e0 la finale avec une coque qui leur avait \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00eat\u00e9e par l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Washington. Ils \u00e9taient tellement n\u00e9glig\u00e9s pour la finale olympique que les dirigeants et les journalistes canadiens ne se sont m\u00eame pas pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s \u00e0 la course. Cet \u00e9quipage des plus improbables l\u2019a emport\u00e9 par une distance de trois quarts d\u2019un bateau et a \u00e9t\u00e9 surnomm\u00e9 les \u00ab&nbsp;<em>Golden Rejects<\/em> \u00bb (les Rejet\u00e9s en or). Cette m\u00e9daille \u00e9tait la seule d\u2019or remport\u00e9e par le Canada \u00e0 ces Jeux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hungerford a d\u00e9but\u00e9 l\u2019aviron \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole Shawnigan Lake sur l\u2019\u00eele de Vancouver, avant de se joindre \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9quipe de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la Colombie-Britannique, o\u00f9 il a obtenu un baccalaur\u00e9at \u00e8s arts en 1965. Il a poursuivi ses \u00e9tudes pour obtenir un dipl\u00f4me de droit et continuer l\u2019aviron, il a pass\u00e9 son barreau en 1969, travaill\u00e9 comme avocat d\u2019entreprise au sein de son propre cabinet, en plus d\u2019\u00eatre un associ\u00e9 dans une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 immobili\u00e8re \u00e0 son nom. Hungerford est devenu un membre tr\u00e8s respect\u00e9 dans sa communaut\u00e9 et a occup\u00e9 plusieurs r\u00f4les de premier plan au sein de plusieurs conseils et comit\u00e9s tels que la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du legs des Jeux olympiques d\u2019hiver de Vancouver 2010, Fondation du saumon du Pacifique, l\u2019Arm\u00e9e du Salut et la Fondation du cancer de la Colombie-Britannique. Il a \u00e9pous\u00e9 Jane Knott avec qui il a eu quatre enfants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hungerford a re\u00e7u conjointement avec Jackson le troph\u00e9e Lou Marsh en 1964 en tant qu\u2019athl\u00e8te par excellence au Canada. Re\u00e7u Officier de l\u2019Ordre du Canada en 1984, Hungerford a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Panth\u00e9on des sports canadiens (1964), au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de la Colombie-Britannique (1966), au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada (1971) et au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la Colombie-Britannique (1994).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9cart\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00e9quipage d\u2019aviron \u00e0 huit quelques mois avant le d\u00e9but de Tokyo 1964 en raison d\u2019un s\u00e9rieux cas de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":141752,"template":"","tags":[415966755,9114162,415984529],"hof-categories":[682162651],"year-inducted":[682162661],"gender":[42123],"season":[415983968],"sport":[392824],"game":[9241344],"team":[415983552],"event":[181822427],"province":[],"class_list":["post-13212","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-aviron","tag-medaille-dor","tag-tokyo-1964","hof-categories-athlete","year-inducted-682162661","gender-masculin","season-ete","sport-aviron","game-1964-tokyo","team-tokyo-1964-aviron","event-deux-en-pointe-sans-barreur-hommes"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/1426818-110-e1549038957983.jpg?quality=100","category_names":[],"tag_names":["aviron","M\u00e9daille d'Or","Tokyo 1964"],"sport_names":[515],"game_names":["Tokyo 1964"],"season_names":["\u00c9t\u00e9"],"team_names":["Tokyo 1964 Aviron"],"province_names":[],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"1","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/roger-jackson-e1549039763496.jpg?quality=100","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"","athlete_birthplace":"Vancouver, British Columbia","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"August 14, 1970","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/13212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/13212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241028,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/13212\/revisions\/241028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=13212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}