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“And again, I had to pinch myself. Could this all really be happening? Was it possible that I was now a gold medal winner at fifty? “I had won many championships, world and Canadian championships, Ontario and New Brunswick championships. I had won hundreds of bonspiels and cashed scores of first-place cheques. I have a basement full of trophies and medals, but nothing could compare to the moment I was experiencing now; nothing could ever match the newest reward that was hanging from my neck.” From Hurry Hard, Chapter 1 It was a long journey for Russ Howard from his childhood in small-town Ontario to the pinnacle of the Olympic podium in Turin at the 2006 Winter Games. Worlds apart, separated by thousands of kilometers and over four decades, but joined by one remarkable curling career. A career that started on a quiet, lonely rink in Midland, Ontario. Howard, coached by his father, developed a solid, consistent delivery at an early age. He loved practicing, where other youngsters loathed it, and for hour after lonely hour he honed his skills by throwing rock after rock on the rink at the Midland Curling Club. A natural skip from a young age, Howard was always drawn in by the strateg

Author

Russ Howard; Bob Weeks

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Canada

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780470156728

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Anthropology