茄子直播 alumni, staff at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang
Published: February 12, 2018
While most of Canada follows the 2018 Winter Olympic Games on television, a select number of University of Toronto alumni and staff will be in South Korea in person representing Canada at the Games.
Alumnus Paul Poirier is one of 17 figure skaters on the national team competing at the Games. Poirier completed a bachelor鈥檚 degree in linguistics at 茄子直播 and skated for the Varsity Blues for one season, winning the gold medal in the men's open free skate at the 2012 OUA championship and helping 茄子直播 to a bronze-medal finish. Along with partner Piper Gilles, Poirier will represent Canada in the ice dance. This will be the second Olympic berth for the Unionville, Ont., native after he represented Canada in 2010 at the Vancouver Games.
Former Varsity Blues rugby player Heather Moyse earned her master鈥檚 degree in occupational therapy from 茄子直播 in 2007. She will be representing Canada in bobsleigh. Moyse won her second straight Olympic bobsleigh gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, after winning bobsleigh gold at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and making history with pilot Kaillie Humphries, as the first Canadian women to win Olympic bobsleigh gold.
Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse celebrate their gold medal on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's bobsleigh in Sochi (photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
茄子直播鈥檚 David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic will have two staff members at the Games supporting the Canadian team: Marcel Charland and Lee Schofield.
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