When he was 10 years old, Craig Buntin’s dream was to compete in the Olympics. By the time he was 26, he had teamed up with Valérie Marcoux to win three-straight Canadian national championships in figure skating and appear at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics. Buntin barely missed a return trip to the 2010 Games with a new partner and retired soon thereafter.
“At 30 years old,” Buntin recalled thinking then, “I’m looking at this going, what am I going to do with the next 20 years of my life? I need a goal that is as big as going to the Olympics.