{"id":12673,"date":"2021-11-23T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinglifeblog.ca\/?p=12673"},"modified":"2021-11-23T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:19:08","slug":"all-downhill-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.ca\/blog\/all-downhill-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Written by: Hugh Burrill, Sporting Life Brand Ambassador<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"539\" class=\"wp-image-12674\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334.jpg 800w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334-223x300.jpg 223w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334-760x1024.jpg 760w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334-768x1035.jpg 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334-370x499.jpg 370w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334-570x768.jpg 570w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334-770x1038.jpg 770w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0334-430x580.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was fortunate to report on a lot of different sports during my career in sports broadcasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything from the big four &#8211; hockey, basketball, football, baseball &#8211; to the ones you\u2019re likely less familiar with. Sports like cricket, bull riding and chess. Yes, chess is a sport. You can work up quite a sweat pondering your pawns. But one sport I never had the chance to cover was skiing. More specifically, a World Cup downhill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That changes soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow Sporting Life on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sportinglifeca\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SportingLifeCan\/\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportinglifeca\">Twitter<\/a>, and join me as I head to Lake Louise, Alberta from November 25-28th to capture all the excitement of a race weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ski recreationally but I\u2019ve always been fascinated by the men and women who do it at the highest levels. As a kid, I was glued to the TV, my heart swelling with pride as the \u201cCrazy Canucks\u201d stunned European crowds with jaw-dropping displays of speed on some of the most dangerous runs ever designed. Podborski, Read, Irwin \u2026 these were my weekend warriors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember the stomach-clenching horror in 1987 seeing Todd Brooker lose a ski and then ragdoll, unconscious, down the infamous Streif course at Kitzbuhel, wondering how on earth does someone survive that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was joy again in 1992, watching Kerrin Lee-Gartner shock the skiing world with a gold medal run in the Olympic downhill in Albertville. An event so monumental, it ranks as Alpine Canada\u2019s top moment in its 100-year history. To this day, it\u2019s the only Canadian Olympic downhill gold and with only .08 seconds separating first from fifth. It remains the closest race in Olympic history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most recently, it was the \u201cCanadian Cowboys\u201d with Manny Osborne-Paradis, John Kucera and Erik Guay leading the charge, continuing this country\u2019s legacy of speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now a new crop of Canadian heroes is ready to write the next chapter in Canadian skiing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It begins in Lake Louise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I can\u2019t wait to see it, and for you to see it too. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by: Hugh Burrill, Sporting Life Brand Ambassador I was fortunate to report on a lot of different sports during my career in sports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news-events-promotions","post-item","post-even"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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