As I mentioned in my previous blog, the first question that most of my readers ask is, “are you still living in the house that you talk about building in Never Say Die, and When the Going Get’s Tough.” As you can see from the pictures in my...
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My new book is almost ready! Stay tuned!
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Sitting in a gym in Pune, India watching Gord play in the Junior World Championships. What was I doing exactly 7 years ago, on the 17th of August 2009? This is a photo of me sitting in a gym in Pune India watching a game in progress against Iran...
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Most of our time on the 16th was spent at Canada House watching athletic events on the big screen TV and talking with other athlete’s families. Swimmer, and rower supporters were thinning out and more and more track supporters were filtering in...
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The morning started slow with my spending several hours catching up on my blogs. We were all tired from our lack of sleep the day before, and no one was moving before 11. Alicia and Ruth went over to the mall to wander a bit, and pick up some red...
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Me with our mascot at Canada House.
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Alicia and I “enjoy” our day on the water.
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It’s tough to book events from Canada during the Olympics for days when you don’t have games, when you don’t know in advance the times the team will play. As it turned out, Ruth booked a tour of the islands around Rio a month before we actually...
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Waiting for the game to start.
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Another game day…this one where we have big hopes for a three-set win over Mexico! Things in our pool have become more and more confusing with every team but Italy getting into the losing mode. At this level of play with this caliber of teams and...
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August 12, 2016 was another day off from volleyball, and we were supposed to go on a tour to cruise the Rio shoreline and go through the islands offshore. It was after 1 when we got home the night before, and when Ruth got up and called at 6:30...
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