If you were a high school athlete (and didn’t go on to be a college athlete), there’s a decent chance you finished up your last competition your senior year and had the “wow, that was it” moment. The moment where you realized your proper days competing were over. Maybe you’ll do some club leagues, but those will never quite have the same feeling as organized school sports.
While I wasn’t a college athlete myself, I can only imagine that feeling is ten times stronger at the end of a college sports career. Knowing that you’ve just spent eight or more years of your life in a sport, just for it to end? That’s crazy. Cyrus Gray turned that feeling into a passion for a new sport, going from basketball to bobsleigh. Now, he’s training to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics.
“Cyrus Gray dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player. When his dream fell apart, he was recruited through RBC Training Grounds to the Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton sport federation. Gray has a new dream: competing in the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.“
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