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  • Macleans

    Jordan Retires

    Maybe Michael Jordan knew it would be his last shot.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 25, 1999

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    Jordin Tootoo

    Jordin John Kudluk (Thunder) Tootoo, hockey player (born 2 February, 1983 in Churchill, MB). Jordin Tootoo is the first Inuk hockey player to play in the National Hockey League (NHL). Jordin got the attention of the NHL as a tough, talented right-winger in his junior hockey days in Manitoba. In 2003, he received national attention when he played for Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship. After playing 13 seasons in the NHL, he retired in 2018. He is known for speaking to youth and maintaining his Inuit culture.

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    Jos Montferrand

    Joseph Montferrand (Jos Montferrand), folk hero, logger (born 25 October 1802 in Montreal, Lower Canada; died 4 October 1864 in Montreal, Canada East). Jos Montferrand was a French Canadian of legendary strength who lived in the Ottawa-Montreal region in the early 19th century. His exploits are enshrined in the folklore of the region.

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    Joseph Krol

    Joseph (Joe King) Krol, football player (born 20 February 1919 in Hamilton, ON; died 16 December 2008 in Toronto, ON).

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    Joseph Wright Sr

    Joseph Wright, Sr, oarsman (b at Toronto 13 Jan 1864; d there 18 Oct 1950). In 1950 Wright was named Canada's outstanding oarsman of the half-century. In 1885 he stroked a Toronto Argonaut crew to victory at the US Nationals.

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    Julius Gustav Albert Schneider

    Julius Gustav Albert Schneider, "Bert," boxer (b at Cleveland, Ohio 1 July 1897). Schneider's family moved to Montréal when he was 9 and he took up boxing in high school. He later joined the Montreal Amateur Athletic Assn and became its welterweight champion.

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    Kaetlyn Osmond

    Kaetlyn Osmond, figure skater (born 5 December 1995 in Marystown, NL). Figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond has competed at two Olympic Winter Games, winning bronze in women’s figure skating (2018) and gold (2018) and silver (2014) in the team event. In 2018, she won gold at the World Figure Skating Championships, becoming the first Canadian women’s world champion in 45 years. She has also been Canadian champion (2013, 2014, 2017), has won gold medals at several international events, including Skate Canada International and the Nebelhorn Trophy.

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    Kaillie Humphries

    Kaillie Humphries (née Simundson), bobsledder (born 4 September 1985 in Calgary, AB). Kaillie Humphries is the only woman to win three Olympic gold medals in bobsledding. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, she and Heather Moyse became the first Canadian women to win gold in the two-woman bobsled. They won gold again at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Humphries won the 2014 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year and won a bronze medal at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. She was also one of the first two women to compete in an international four-man bobsleigh competition. Humphries has alleged that she was “driven off” the Canadian bobsled team in 2019 after filing a harassment complaint against a coach. She obtained US citizenship in 2021 and competed for Team USA at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, where she won gold in women’s monobob. She is the only woman ever to win Olympic gold medals for two different countries.

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    Karen Cockburn

    Cockburn became involved in sports as a diver when she was a child; she used the trampoline as a training tool for her diving practice. After trying artistic gymnastics, she switched to competitive trampolining at age 11.

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    Karen Magnussen

    Karen Diane Magnussen (Magnussen-Cella), OC, figure skater, skating coach (born 4 April 1952 in Vancouver, BC). 

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    Karen Percy Lowe

    Karen Lynne Percy Lowe, CM, alpine skier (born 10 October 1966 in Edmonton, AB). Karen Percy won two bronze medals for Canada at the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary. She medalled in the women’s downhill and the women’s super-giant slalom. She won silver in women’s downhill at the 1989 World Alpine Skiing Championships and five World Cup alpine skiing medals. She also won seven Canadian championships in six years. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and has been inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum, the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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    Kathy Kreiner

    She won Canada's only 1976 Olympic gold medal - in the giant slalom on 4 Feb - for which she was considered a long shot against gold-medal winning German skier Rosi Mittermaier. In so doing she became the youngest-ever gold medalist in skiing to that date.

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    Ken Watson

    Ken Watson, curler (born at Minnedosa, Man 12 Aug 1904; died at Winnipeg 26 July 1986). When he skipped his Strathcona Cup (Manitoba) Rink to victory in the 1949 Macdonald Brier, Watson became the first to win the coveted Tankard 3 times (with a career Brier record of 25 and 2).

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    Kenneth John Read

    Kenneth John Read, alpine skier (b at Ann Arbor, Mich 6 Nov 1955). He was raised in Calgary and began skiing at 3 and competing at 8.

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    Kerrin Lee-Gartner

    In Dec 1992 she finished third in Vail, Colo, and in Feb 1993 she missed winning in the downhill at Veysonnaz, Switz, by 9/100ths of a second, finishing in second place. Her most successful season came in 1992-93, and she finished the year as one of the top-ranked downhillers in the world.

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