By Jeremiah Brown
The Olympics are over, and while not without some distraction, was been a pretty darn good performance by Team Canada.
In a short while, our Canadian Paralympians will take on the world with no less fervour. Then it will all be over, and Canadian Olympians and Paralympians will be faced with the question: what happens next?
Some will use South Korea as a launching point for travelling the world for weeks or months. Most Olympians have made their way home by now, greeted at the airport by proud family, friends, and appreciative fellow Canadians.
They’ll get home, walk into a familiar room, perhaps sit on the edge of a bed and take a breath. Maybe they’ll cry, maybe not. Either way, they will be afloat; untethered from lives grounded in hours of training, testing protocols, meal planning, injury management. It will feel like they’ve been sucked out into the vacuum of space.
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