In anticipation of Canadian success in the 2014 games in Sochi we want to share a look back into our archives to help get you into the spirit.
27 years of business = a lot of Olympics ! In 1988 Brian Harder was accredited as a photographer for the Calgary Winter Olympics. He went on to shoot editorial assignments featuring Canadian athletes for Time Magazine. corporate sponsors and Reader’s Digest.
The Olympics by definition are emotionally rich with stories both good and bad. Here are some of the back stories for images in this post.
Three-time Canadian national champion, 1980 Olympian, and the 1982 World bronze medalist Brian Pokar ( featured in this blog with sparklers) was 29 years old in this image, a specimen of gorgeousness and perfect health, at the peak of his career in Men’s Figure Skating. Unimaginably, he died of AIDS only four years later.
Scandalously, Pairs Figure Skaters, Jamie Rae Salé & David Pelletier broke their secret engagement to the world in Time Magazine with this kitschy photo of the pair courting on the ice. This was way before internet folks! Salé & Pelletier later went on to win shared Olympic gold medal with the Russians after the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal.
Dave King (featured with the chess board) was the Men’s Canadian Olympic Hockey coach in ’88 but we got our butts kicked by the Soviet Union, Finland and Sweden.
Most inspiring is Duff Gibson, Canadian skeleton racer who competed from 1999 to 2006.who became the oldest individual gold medalist in the history of the Winter Games taking gold in Men’s Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
Hayley Wickenheiser was the first woman to play full-time professional hockey in a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser is a member of the Canada women’s national ice hockey team. She has represented Canada at the Winter Olympics four times, capturing three gold and one silver medal and twice being named tournament MVP, and one time at the Summer Olympics in softball. She is widely considered the greatest female ice hockey player in the world.
Becky Kellar is a three time Olympic Gold Medalist (2002, 2006, 2010) an Olympic silver medalist (1998) and four time World Champion. Becky was twice named top defense man(woman) in the CWHL (Canadian Women’s Hockey League).
2004 Gold medalist Kyle Shewfelt received the first gold medal EVER by a Canadian in an artistic gymnastics event. He even has a vault skill named after him. In August 2007, Kyle fractured both of his tibia bones in a freak accident, landing from a skill while training on floor. It just prior to the World Championships in Germany. (personal note: This one goes down hard for us parents of high performance athletes. ) While Kyle may not be competing for gold any longer he now hosts a series of gymnastic competition events in his name to inspire young athletes, my daughter included.
Pierre Lueders from Edmonton lives here in Calgary. He competed for 20 years from 1990-2010 taking home gold in 1998 at Nagano and silver in 2006 at Turin. He was named to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2012
Dr.Peter Jensen is a world renown sports psychologist who has attended 7 Olympic games as a member of the Canadian Olympic Team. He worked with our own Women’s Canadian Hockey Team in 2008 when they won the gold in Vancouver 2010.
Other Athletes appearing on this page include: Jessica Zelinka, Sara Renner&Thomas Grandi, Melanie Turgeon, Morgan Knabe, Sam Effah, Sami Jo Small, Regan Laucher,
We have also included a real piece of historical landscape, Brian’s commemorative poster from the 1988 Olympic Winter Games (over 14,000 sold). Check your attic, you might just find one next to your mint green Sunice snowsuit! It was shot from the 13th floor of Calgary’s City Hall overlooking Olympic Plaza. See if you can find what’s changed in the city’s skyline in the past 27 years.
Bring Home the Gold Canada!
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