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Long track long shot making painstaking progress on blades
Published: 11 November 2010
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(PHOTOS COURTESY OF KEVIN JAGGER)
By Alison Korn
The Toronto Sun
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Inspired by the 2010 Olympics, the guy who calls himself the "long track long shot" is still chasing his chance.
A former investment banker and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ football player who quit the corporate world in February to try a totally new sport - speed skating - Kevin Jagger was recently accepted to train in Calgary's Olympic Oval program. That was after nine weeks of painstaking progress on blades.
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