Gold, Tim Wharnsby
Gold, Tim Wharnsby
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Gold
How Gretzky's Men Ended Canada's 50-Year Olympic Hockey Drought

Author: Tim Wharnsby

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/01/2022


Synopsis

"Now after fifty years, it's time for Canada to stand up and cheer. Stand up and cheer everybody! The Olympics Salt Lake City, 2002, men's ice hockey gold medal: Canada!" —Bob Cole, CBC play-by-play broadcaster

There was no iconic Paul Henderson moment, nor a Sidney Crosby golden goal, but Canada's 5-2 victory against the rival United States in the men's 2002 Olympic gold medal game wiped out fifty years of frustration for the nation that invented ice hockey.

Canadians from coast to coast were whipped into a frenzy, with impromptu celebrations on streets like Granville in Vancouver, Yonge in Toronto, Ste-Catherine in Montreal, and Portage and Main in Winnipeg.

Gold is the definitive chronicle of how the men of Team Canada made history. Marking twenty years since the momentous victory, Tim Wharnsby delivers the inside story of how Gretzky built the team and Pat Quinn got them to the gold medal, featuring exclusive interviews with players, coaches, and personnel.

About Tim Wharnsby

Tim Wharnsby has spent more than thirty years as a sports reporter with the Toronto Sun as well as the Globe and Mail. He also appeared on Hockey Night in Canada several times in 2012 and composed the anchor features for Hockey Day in Canada in 2013 and 2014 on deaf junior player Gregg Sutch and the tenth anniversary of Dan Snyder's fatal car accident, respectively. Wharnsby, a native of Waterloo, Ontario, lives in the downtown Toronto neighborhood of Corktown with his wife, Kathy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by William on May 01, 2022

Put a book about Canadian hockey players competing for gold in front of me and it’s impossible to put down. Fantastic book about the greatest hockey nation in the world winning gold in 2002 at the Winter Olympics. True Canadian hockey fans should enjoy this book.......more

Goodreads review by John on June 19, 2022

I was extremely disappointed. Way too many lists of line combinations, roommates, trophies won, too many game recap summaries and very little “new stuff”. Lots of time spent on inter-connections between players/executives careers. We mostly know that, as hockey at that level is still very much a clo......more

Goodreads review by Alex on January 13, 2023

This book is good, but not great. It really could have benefited from better editing. Too much information was getting repeated and a lot of content was just who had already played with who or who knew each other from what past event. Not really all that interesting. It didn’t try and build up to an......more

Goodreads review by Dave on February 25, 2022

A good accounting of Canada’s 2002 Olympic hockey story and hockey history. Unfortunately, the story was fairly bland with not much in the way of intrigue or mystery involved. Perhaps it is that the story has been told too many times or that there seems to be little in the way of conflict that makes......more

Goodreads review by Ben on February 18, 2022

During the Olympics, reading books about the Olympics was really the only Olympic things I consumed. I found this pretty interesting, but sports are not my favorite subject. It was a bit dry at times as well. 3.1/5......more