Port Alberni born Canadian Olympian Travis Cross emailed me yesterday with a notification that Macleans Magazine had a write up on him on their website. See below...
From Macleans.ca
They call it "the hump," everybody in Port Alberni does. It is east of this central Vancouver Island city, where serpentine Highway 4 — the only road in or out — slithers over an elevated pass in the Beaufort Mountains. To leave Port Alberni for points east like Victoria or Vancouver, you must get over the hump. It was here, one day in early 2006, that Travis Cross failed to make the grade.
Life was crazy-busy, over-full of a young man's dreams in various stages of fulfillment. He'd just finished his four-day shift as a Port Alberni firefighter. "My dream job," he calls it, in the city where he was born and raised. He'd said goodbye to his wife, Melissa, his high-school sweetheart and the foundation for all other dreams. His pregnant wife, Melissa. His desire for a family, and the responsibilities that entails, competed this day with a dream he'd carried since he was a scrawny, 77-lb. teen. One day he would take to the Olympics all he'd learned on the wrestling mats of Port Alberni, and he would earn the gold medal.
To read the rest of this incredible story- click here-
When I read the comment Travis had saying "it takes a community to raise an Olympian", I thought about THIS moment. When Travis returned from the Nationals after booking his ticket to the 2008 Olympics. Enjoy the video. Sorry about the quality, it is from my smart phone.
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