Trevor Stewardson fought hard to get on the Olympic team. Unfortunately most of that was in the boardrooms as he gained a berth through a Quebec arbitrator in mid-July after a four-month battle.
Stewardson, who was born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ont., but trains out of Medicine Hat, Alta., contested a Canadian Olympic Committee ruling that the silver medal he won at a qualifying tournament in Brazil was not sufficient to earn an Olympic berth.
He has been ranked as high as eighth by the sport's international federation in 81 kilos. A Commonwealth Games bronze medallist in 1998 and a three-time national champion, Stewardson moved west after the Thunder Bay Amateur Boxing Club closed in 2001. He was also on the 1999 Pan Am Games team. He started boxing at age 11.
