
Written By: Doug Crosse While Canadians wait to see how former Canadian rugby player and current Canada bobsledder Heather Moyse will do at the PeyongChang Olympics, her fourth, it is interesting to note she is not the first Canadian rugby player to make an impact on the world’s sliding tracks. Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a group of players from the Ottawa Irish were regulars on the World Cup bobsleigh circuit, and in the process changed how the sport recruited its athletes. Norm Carr was a fresh-faced 17 year old playing for the Ottawa Irish in 1977....