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21| W aterloo C hronicle | T hursday,F ebruary 1,2018 w aterloochronicle.ca ONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commonONE thing in commoncommon • Walt Disney • H. Ross Perot • Bob Hope • Ed Sullivan • Danny Thomas • John Wayne • Bing Crosby • Jimmy Durante • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Herbert Hoover • Martin Luther King Jr. • Harry S. Truman • Isaac Asimov • Carl Sandburg • Tom Brokaw • Wayne Gretzky • Dr. Norman Vincent Peale • Warren Buffett • Jackie Robinson These famous personalities all started their careers DELIVERING NEWSPAPERS ROUTES NOW AVAILABLE! Join the list! 519-895-5690 61 47 -0 01 SPORTS Visit waterloochronicle.ca for more coverage It took a new and exciting op- portunity to bring Heather Moyse back to bobsleigh, and on Jan. 24, the comeback was com- pleted. For the fourth time in her ca- reer, Moyse, a University of Wa- terloo grad, is heading to the Olympic games. The two-time Olympic gold medallist returned to the sport in September 2017 and will head to Pyeongchang as the brakeman for Alysia Rissling. Moyse, a former UW women's rugby star, never officially re- tired, but also didn't think she was going to return to competi- tion. A convincing message from the 29-year-old Rissling persuad- ed her otherwise. "I hadn't even trained since Sochi, and I'd been asked last winter if I would come back," said Moyse via phone interview. "I had no interest in coming back just for the sake of competing, just win for the sake of winning, or three-peating, that sort of thing. "I was fine with that decision, and all of a sudden I got a mes- sage from Alysia Rissling, who kind of put a different spin on it and basically turned into more of a leadership-bringing experi- ence. It's not just about the push, it's about the mindset and mental strength needed to go into the Olympic games." Moyse, 39, also added that an Olympic season is drastically dif- ferent from any other, especially mentally. "I kind of reached out to her and asked if she would be inter- ested in first of all coming back, and if not, if she would be inter- ested in taking a little bit more of a mentor role, [and] try to help us prepare for the Olympic season that everyone kept telling us was going to be unlike any other sea- son we've been through before," said Rissling via phone interview on Jan. 27. "I also let her know a little about me, she didn't know I was. So I was like, if there was maybe another way you'd be interested in coming back and sliding, I'd love to have you on my team. This is who I am; this is how I run my team. I think that you would be a really good person to have around and I need you." Moyse, who won her gold medals at the 2010 and 2014 Olym- pics with Kaillie Humphries as the pilot, had a very successful run with Rissling at a World Cup event in St. Moritz, Switzerland, earlier in January. Rissling added that Moyse's experience and mentorship played a big role in the event, where the pair finished fourth, their best result of the season. "It was timely, in the sense it was a good result, in a really good time," said Moyse, a native of Summerside, P.E.I. "To kind of have that confidence booster, we're in a really good place mov- ing forward." Rissling finished fifth in the World Cup standings while Hum- phries, who had Phylicia George and Melissa Lotholz alternate as her brakemen, won the World Cup title for the fifth time. Christine de Bruin is Cana- da's third sled for the Games for her first Olympics. Moyse and Rissling join a Ca- nadian team, which is sending a record-breaking number of sled- ding athletes (including Skele- ton) to Pyeongchang. "She's been incredible as a mentor, she challenges me in ways I didn't know I needed to be challenged," Rissling added. "She just brings on this extra energy, her experience of her knowing what to focus on and which aren't have really helped me develop and push forward." Moyse had hip surgery before and after Sochi, and had to modi- fy a lot of aspects of her training program including sprinting work. "It's been exciting," said Moyse. "But me deciding to come back, or accepting the idea of coming back, there's so many layers of the challenges that are involving, and it's been quite an interesting five months." HHeeaatthheerr MMooyyssee ccoommpplleetteess iimmpprreessssiivvee ccoommeebbaacckk bbyy qquuaalliiffyyiinngg ffoorr PPyyeeoonnggcchhaanngg University of Waterloo graduate won gold medals in Sochi and Vancouver NAMISH MODI nmodi@waterloochronicle.ca 39-year-old Heather Moyse captured gold medals as the brakeman for Kaillie Humphries at the Sochi and Vancouver Olympics. Jason Ransom/Canadian Olympic Commitee