Robin McKeever named Canadian cross-country coach after successful stint with Para Nordic team
Robin McKeever has been named head coach of Canada's cross-country ski team following 12 years coaching the country's decorated Para Nordic program.
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Robin McKeever has been named head coach of Canada's cross-country ski team following 12 years coaching the country's decorated Para Nordic program.
Graham Nishikawa says it feels like "a lifetime ago" that he was part of the Yukon cross-country ski team, being driven to race events by the team's longtime coach Alain Masson.
It's been nearly a week since cross-country skier Brian McKeever's final individual Paralympic race, but the post-retirement emotions are just starting to set in for the Canmore, Alta., native.
Brian McKeever was already a Winter Paralympic legend for Canada, but he sealed it on Saturday morning with a third gold of these Beijing Games, his 16th career gold and 20th Paralympics medal overall.
It was a happy coincidence that Brian McKeever wore bib No. 16 on Saturday.
Brian McKeever ended his final individual Paralympic event in a spot he became very familiar with over six winter Games: the top of the podium.
Brian McKeever was already a Winter Paralympics legend for Canada, but he sealed it on Saturday morning with a third gold of these Beijing Games, his 16th career gold and 20th Paralympics medal overall. The 42-year-old skier won the men’s vision impaired middle distance cross-country race at the Zhangjiakou National Biathlon centre. At his sixth Games, incredibly he now hasn’t lost an individual race at a Paralympics since 2006. That 16th gold puts him equal with Germany’s para alpine skier Gerd Schönfelder as the person with the most Paralympics golds.
Canadian Nordic skier Brian McKeever has insisted that Beijing will be his last Winter Paralympics despite a history-equalling 16th gold medal.