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Life as a World Cup Ski Racer

By: Michael Janyk

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Life as a World Cup Ski Racer

By: Michael Janyk

As a third-generation member of a ski-racing family, Mike Janyk fulfills a childhood dream by becoming a world class ski-racer on the biggest stage. He travels to glamourous locales, wins accolades, and enjoys the spotlight and camaraderie that comes with belonging to a national team at the World Cup and the Olympic Games. In this beautifully explored memoir, Janyk chronicles the inner life of an elite athlete from being encouraged in sports by parents hoping to find an outlet for his “excessive energy,” to his rise as a young athlete with big dreams and the will to work for them. He takes us through the emotional whirlwind of victories, defeats, and the eventual need for personal reinvention that come with a life in sport. A deep dive into the psychology of a champion athlete, Go To the Start is painted in many colors as a fascinating, sometimes tormented, but frequently hilarious coming-of-age set in a milieu that most of us would never dream we could enter. In lively, evocative prose, Janyk brings readers into the enchantment of standing in the starting gate on a snowy night, to the self talk and mind-over-matter thinking that overcome an athlete’s anxieties and fears, to the thrill of standing on the winners’ podium. It’s a journey of self-discovery that takes him from great emotional heights and to deeply troubled depths, until he comes to find a new way of being in the world. An intimate look into the emotional journey of a world-class athlete, Go to the Start offers a unique perspective and delivers it with deep insight, honesty, and appealing wit.

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1039152880

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Go to the Start

Life as a World Cup Ski Racer

By: Michael Janyk

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1039152899

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Heatstroke

Why Canada's Summer Olympic Program Is Failing -- And How We Can Fix It

By: Michael G. Simonson

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Heatstroke

Why Canada's Summer Olympic Program Is Failing -- And How We Can Fix It

By: Michael G. Simonson

HeatStroke: Why Canada's Summer Olympic Program Is Failing--And How We Can Fix It, is Michael Simonson's incisive and passionate diagnosis of Canada's Summer Olympic performances and the disparate nature of amateur sport in Canada. He reveals why a country that seemingly dominates at the Winter Olympics is content in putting up with sporting ineptitude at the Summer Olympics. In doing so, he discovers that Canada's success at the Winter Olympics has more to do with the vision of Canada's winter sport organizations than with the health of the sport system itself. But Simonson's exposé is written out of love of his country and sport, and in the hopes of turning Canadian sport around so all of our athletes have the opportunity to be successful. While his book is a tough diagnosis of our sporting ills, it also examines Canada's plan for resurgence at the Summer Olympics, while offering its own blueprint for success, not just in the short-term but for many Olympiads to come. Examining some of the best practices implemented in Canada's winter sport system HeatStroke provides a made in Canada solution to our summer sporting ills.

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233

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BPS Books

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1926645073

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9781926645070

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

This volume completes the nonpasserine species and contains accounts for the diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.

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645

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UBC Press

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0774844361

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9780774844369

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