Three New Brunswickers are among the Team Canada delegation at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Track and field athlete Craig Thorne of Quispamsis will look for a medal in the 110-metre hurdles event.
“I’ve been training since I was 14 or 15 for this specific moment. It’s been 10 or so years, and it doesn’t happen overnight, but it does happen,” Throne recently told our newsroom.
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The 23-year-old is the first male athlete from New Brunswick to play for Team Canada at the Olympics in 24 years. The last person to do it was Joël Bourgeois in 2000.
More recently, short-track speed skater Travis Jayner, who hails from Riverview, won a bronze medal for Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Joining Thorne as part of the Team Canada delegation is swimmer Brooklyn Douthwright of Riverview.
She earned her spot after winning bronze in the 100-metre freestyle at the 2024 Canadian Olympic trials.
“No matter what I swim, no matter when I swim, just putting everything I can into the race,” Douthwright told us.
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The 21-year-old said making the Olympics has been a goal of hers since she started swimming 12 years ago.
Moncton equestrian Jill Irving is also looking to earn a medal for Team Canada at this year’s Olympics.
The 61-year-old was a member of the gold medal-winning team at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.
All three New Brunswick athletes are competing at the Olympics for the first time.
