Ice gold : Canada's curling champions / Ted Wyman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraitsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781770906457
- 1770906452
- 9781770906440
- 1770906444
- Olympic Winter Games (22nd : 2014 : Sochi, Russia)
- Olympic Winter Games
- Jeux olympiques d'hiver (22es : 2014 : Sotchi, Russie)
- Curlers (Athletes) -- Canada -- Biography
- Olympics
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports
- GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- History
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports
- Curlers (Athletes)
- Canada
- Curleurs -- Canada -- Biographies
- Canada
- Olympic Winter Games
- Curlers (Athletes)
- 796.964092/271 23
- GV845.6
The women's team, which hails from Winnipeg, and the men's team, based in Sault Ste. Marie, dominated the Sochi Olympic curling events, setting records and capturing the hearts of millions of Canadians. Now Winnipeg SunIce Gold delves into each player's beginnings in the sport, the formation of the teams, their road to the Olympics, and their gold-medal triumphs. Learn how Jennifer Jones and Jill Officer became an inseparable tandem after meeting at the Highlander Curling Club; how two brothers, E.J. and Ryan Harnden, and their cousin, Brad Jacobs, went from aspiring hockey players to gold-medal curlers; and how Mike Babcock's inspiring words helped the men's curling team out of their early Olympic slump.
ONE From the Coke Machine to the Top of the World -- TWO Brothers in Arms -- THREE Breaking Up Is Hard to Do -- FOUR The Vagabond -- FIVE A Father's Inspiration -- SIX The Buff Boys -- SEVEN Isabella's Influence and Hometown Glory -- EIGHT The Perfect Storm -- NINE The Golden Road -- TEN Gut-Checks and Glory -- ELEVEN The Greatest of Them All -- TWELVE Pride of the Soo.
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