DUNEDIN, Fla. — He wasn’t going to rub it in. Not until somebody disintegrated his gold medal.
Then, for North Vancouver native Scott Richmond, it was “Game on!”
Sunday afternoon before he went to a Blue Jays players party to watch the Canada-U.S. Olympic gold medal hockey game, Richmond fashioned a gold medal out of cardboard and tinfoil, to wear around his neck. Actually to call it gold was stretching it. The closest he could find was some yellow paint in the maintenance shed.
So he wore it to the party, took lots of abuse, and then when Canada won the gold, he showed remarkable restraint as a gracious winner.
But when he came back into the clubhouse yesterday and found his makeshift medal in pieces in his locker, he donned his Team Canada shirt to get the last word, making sure most of his teammates saw it.
“This is war,” he said.
ken.fidlin@sunmedia.ca
