Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Sports & Recreation Olympics

Gold Medal Diary

Inside the World's Greatest Sports Event

by (author) Hayley Wickenheiser

Publisher
Greystone Books Ltd
Initial publish date
Dec 2010
Category
Olympics, Personal Memoirs
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781553655800
    Publish Date
    Sep 2010
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771641920
    Publish Date
    Apr 2015
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781553655954
    Publish Date
    Dec 2010
    List Price
    $22.95

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Description

"

""[Hayley Wickenheiser's] memories are more than just an array of hockey games, shifts good and bad and practices filled with the drudgery of constant drills. Wickenheiser is more than just a hockey player, and that's a good thing, because her complicated life outside the rink is more fascinating."" -- Winnipeg Free Press

A behind-the-scenes view of the world's most exciting sporting spectacle, from a multiple medal winner and Olympic veteran.

Hayley Wickenheiser is unarguably the best women's hockey player in the world. With four Olympic medals (three gold and one silver) she is the heart and soul of the Canadian team. Now thirty-one, Wickenheiser has been on the national team since she was fifteen and has played more games in international competition and has more goals, assists, and penalties than any other woman in the game. She's also held her own while playing professional hockey on men's teams in Sweden and Finland. In 2008 Sports Illustrated ranked Wickenheiser as Number 20 on a list of the Top 25 Toughest Athletes in the World. In Gold Medal Diary, Wickenheiser reveals her day-to-day experience of the 2010 Games, including the six-month lead-up of intensive training and pre-Olympic tournaments. The heart of this book, though, is what Wickenheiser reveals about the life of an Olympian-the behind-thescenes stories, the highs and lows, physical and emotional challenges, struggles and triumphs of an elite athlete in a hyperintense environment, including details of the public ceremonies and private moments, friendships and rivalries, community and isolation, media presence and security. For the first time ever, non-Olympic athletes can be on the ground inside the storied Athletes' Village and understand what it's like to live through the most high-pressure, high-profile sporting event in the world.

"

About the author

"

Hayley Wickenheiser is the captain of the Canadian women's hockey team. Besides her four Olympic medals, she owns six World Cup gold medals and two silver. Wickenheiser was born in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, where the local sportsplex has been renamed in her honour. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.

"

Hayley Wickenheiser's profile page

Related lists