ROBERT STOREY JR.

To represent Canada in the Olympic Games automatically qualifies any man as a candidate for a local Sports Hall of Fame.

Bob Story represented Canada in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan, as a member of the National Bobsledding team. Two other Collingwood athletes made it; Jack Portland as a high jumper in the 1932 Olympics as Los Angeles and Darryl Sly as a member of Canadian hockey team at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics.

The Canadian bobsled team did not win a medal in the 1972 Olympics but they made a creditable showing and the team was dubbed the "Cinderella Bobsledders". Bob never saw a bobsled until a year before the 1968 Olympics. As Canada had no bobsled run in the Canadian team had to practice on sleds equipped with roller skate wheels. Bob is said to have scrounged storage space for the sleds in a hanger of the Canadian Mines and Resource Department and then practically smuggled the equipment aboard the plane. The only reason they got away with it was the fact that airport control thought it would be un-Canadian to put a damper on a group of athletes destined to represent Canada in an Olympiad.