Go World: Team VISA’s Emilie Heymans
byVisa is currently sponsoring a handful of Canadian Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls (and some who have become champions already) as they have done for the last 26 years. They have partnered with me to showcase members of their team like Brent Hayden of Mission and to do a giveaway this week. The next Team VISA athlete that I am proud to feature is Emilie Heymans.
…she’s done something no other Canadian summer Olympian has ever attained. Heymans, along with partner Jennifer Abel, earned a bronze medal in the women’s three-metre synchronized springboard event – she can add to her medal haul with the individual springboard competition still ahead. The medal did more than just give the nation its first medal of the Games, it cemented the 30-year-old into a Canadian Olympic icon.
With her third-place showing, Heymans became the first Canadian to win four medals in four straight Olympics. (Another Canadian Olympian, Toronto trampolinist Karen Cockburn, can equal the mark in London). She also is the first female diver to accomplish this feat. [CBC News]
You can continue to cheer on your Canadian athletes through Team VISA on Facebook and by using the tag #GoWorld on Twitter.
VISA Canada has offered up a $250 pre-paid gift card to one lucky Miss604 reader to celebrate Canadians cheering for Canadians. Here’s how how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment naming your favourite Olympic athlete of all time (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
One winner will drawn on Saturday, August 11 2012 at 12:00pm. This is the 2nd of 4 Team VISA posts this week and I will be collecting entries for the same, single prize on each. You may enter up to 4 times (once on each post) and all entries will be combined for a single random draw. Contest is open to all Canadians residents.
Update The winner is Shannon Mac!
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Clara Hughes 🙂
My all time favourite is Simon Whitfield!
I have to go with Elvis Stojko. His era was when I really fell in love with the olympics.
Anyone who makes it that far is an inspiration, but I must say a favourite of mine is…Clara Hughes!
Kristi Yamaguchi
Randy Ferbey
Greg Joy 1976 canadian champ
Christine Sinclair!!!
Clara Hughes is my favourite athlete of all time. She competed in both the Winter and Summer Olympics. Even with the bad back she still competed at the 2012 London Olympics.
Clara Hughes is amazing.
Clara Hughes for sure!
Shaun White.
Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Comaneci- I remember watching the ’76 Olympics and being mesmerized by her performance. tweeted too!
Usain Bolt…reminds me of a cheetah.
Steve Yzerman – 2002 Olympic gold medal!
Gabby Douglas. Love her.
Clara Hughes. To excel at her events in both the summer and winter games is inspirational.
Clara Hughes
Steve Yzerman
Kurt Browning
Without a doubt my favorite Olympic athlete is Christine Sinclair. She made Canada proud with her skill and her never-say-die strength. She’s a Canadian Olympic hero. She earned the chance at Gold even if the ref took it away from her.
Kurt Browning was always my favorite!
Lawrence Lemieux, 1988 Seoul
Silken Laumann
Simon Whitfield
Silken Laumann
Nadia Comaneci
How about our hometown hero from Victoria Ryder Hesjedal
Clara Hughes
https://twitter.com/leanne_mac/status/232951349686460416
Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10s made the Olympics exciting to me for the first time.
Dominique Dawes!
Sidney Crosby for giving us hockey gold!
Clara hughes
Adam van Koeverden
Clara Hughes!
Clara Hughes!
Alexei Nemov
Joannie Rochette, with her gutsy performance to win bronze only days after her Mother’s death.
Alexandre Bilodeau!
Clara Hughes is pretty amazing
@strombone1!
My favourite Olympic athlete of all time is Daniel Igali.
Usain Bolt is incredible
Clara Hughes, have always admired her
Definitely Clara Hughes.
Clara Hughes!
Clara Hughes 🙂 I saw her get a bronze in Vancouver 2010
Kurt Browning
That’s a hard one, there are too many just to have a favourite one. I feel proudest of Alexandre Despatie, especially all that he’s overcome.
Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes without doubt
Patrick Chan!
Clara Hughes!!!
Ashleigh McIvor, moving skiing forward!
Nadia Comanichi
Usain Bolt
Dominique Dawes
Clara Hughes – an amazing athlete and role model!
Simon Whitfield
Usain Bolt
Catriona Le May Doan, Clara Hughes, Silken Laumann…among many others.
Christine Sinclair! & Joannie Rochette!
Clara Hughes!!
Clara Hughes for sure
So many to choose from but Clara Hughes!
christine sinclair
It’s between two athletes: Joe Sakic for Winter, and Christine Sinclair for Summer!
Going way back to Mark Spitz. I was in competitive swimming and he ruled!
Because it would be too easy for a guy like me to go with toothless, stick-wielding gladiators, I looked outside the confines of hockey rosters for my faves: Speedskater Catriona Lemay Doane on the women’s side, and decathlete Mike Smith on the men’s side.
Adam van Koeverden
Kurt Browning!
Sidney Crosby!!!! 🙂
My favorite Olymoic athlete of all time is Nadia Comaneci. No matter how many times I watch her videos I still get excited about her performance!
Kerri Strug
Marnie McBean
Clara Hughes
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moirs!
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moirs
Thinking of Christine Sinclair and the women’s Soccer team as they fight for a medal – well deserved! #GoWorld @sincy12 @CDNOlympicTeam #Proud #WNT
Jennifer Heil
Clara Hughes. A woman in both winter and summer olympics. Now that’s impressive!
There are so many to choose from its hard to just pick one. But if I can only pick one – Clara Hughes.
Christine Sinclair
Clara Hughes
Simon Whitfield!
Sidney Crosby
Simon Whitfield is my favorite.
Catriona Le May Doan!
Sidney Crosby!
Donovan Bailey for sure.
Jon Montgomery
Michael Phelps!
Christine Sinclair
Clara Hughes!
my favrorite of all time Kurt Browning good luck pv
Marina Navratilova
Joannie Rochette– courage and class in the face of heartbreak.
Jesse Owens
Alexandre Bilodeau! – First gold on Canadian Soil.
Sidney Crosby
Burnaby Joe Sakic. A class act on and off the ice.
I’d go with the 2002 Men’s Hockey team, captained by Super Mario
Shaun White!
Jamaican Bobsled team
Clara hughes. Such an iconic champion
There are so many great Canadian athletes…. but if I have to pick one, it would be the humble and multi-talented Clara Hughes.
My favourite Olympian of all time is Adam van Koeverden
Clara Hughes
I vote for Bruny Surin. He is winner of a gold medal in the 4×100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Colin Jenkins- thanks to CTV’s ‘Difference Makers’
Silken Laumann has my vote
Tough one, but have to go for Clara Hughes, with a special shout-out to Joannie Rochette
Kurt Browning!
My fav is Christine Sinclair!
Tessa virtue
My favourite Olympic athlete is Donovan Bailey.
Clara Hughes
kurt browning
Usain Bolt
The Greatest – Muhammad Ali
Donovan Bailey (and the 4 men that also won Gold in 1996)
Michael Phelps is the best of the best 🙂
Adam van Koeverden
Clara Hughes
Christine Sinclair – one of the best soccer players ever!
Nadia Comenici: 32 years later her performance is brilliant! Such grace and athleticism.
Clara hughes
Sidney Crosby gold medal game 2010
Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes
Christine Sinclair
Bruce Jenner!
Clara Hughes!
Clara Hughes!
All our Canadian athletes are winners!! Rock on!
Kurt Browning
Christine Sinclair
Michael Edwards
Usain Bolt is the best!
Clara Hughes-there are just not that many athletes who are world class competitors in a winter and summer sport/discipline and have medalled at several Olympics.
Greg Louganis
i will never forget watching nadia commenichi when i was a kid, I know she is not canadain but you had to be in awe of her and her performances
Clara Hughes
Kurt Browning.
Michael Phelps!
Clara Hughes is such an inspiration, competing in both Winter and Summer Olympics and winning medals in both! Wow!
How does one pick ONE from the pool of such amazing talent.
Clara Hughes!
I fell in love with the Olympics in 1988 during the Calgary games. My fav Olympians were Elizabeth Manley & Brian Orser!
Patrick Chan!