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Goldsack headed to the Olympics after all

Drew Goldsack’s dream is coming true after all.
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Drew Goldsack

Drew Goldsack’s dream is coming true after all.

Less than a week after Goldsack was left off the Canadian Olympic cross-country ski team, the 28-year-old from Red Deer received news he’s been added to the team.

Canada was originally allocated 11 spots for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and Cross-Country Canada used them to select six men and five women. Despite winning one of the two sprint races at the Canadian Olympic qualifying championships and finishing second in the other, Goldsack came up one spot short of qualifying.

But when other countries didn’t fill their quotas for the Games, Canada was awarded four more spots.

Goldsack told the Advocate Tuesday that he couldn’t have been more disappointed. but Wednesday it was a different story.

“This definitely is a great feeling and so nice to have the Olympic spirit back,” he said in a press release. “I can now focus on my preparation for the Games and not all the political stuff that is involved in the lead up.”

Calgary’s Brent McMurtry, Gordan Jewett of Canmore and Brittany Webster of Caledon, Ont. were also named to the team.