2010 Olympic men’s skeleton champion Jon Montgomery is sliding into a new chapter of his life.
The Russell product failed to secure a spot on the Canadian team for the 2014 Winter Olympics and, therefore, was unable to defend his gold medal from the 2010 Games in Vancouver.
Since then, the 34-year-old Montgomery has chosen to retire after a 12-year run in the sport.
The setback of not getting to Sochi will serve as an important life lesson in whatever career move Montgomery decides to make next.
"Regardless of whether it’s another sport, which it likely won’t be, but more than likely it’ll be something in the business world and in a professional vein beyond athletic endeavors that I’ll have to understand what it’s like to fail undoubtedly in that world as well because to be thinking that I’m going be successful the first time out, in the very first venture that we undertake would be I think a bit of a overreaching perhaps," said Montgomery on 880 CKLQ’s Monday Sports Talk. "All these types of things are going to be valuable lessons for down the road and I’m glad that they did happen. I’m a little disappointed with the result, but certainly zero regrets about having done it all."
Montgomery is making a stop in Minnedosa this weekend as the headline speaker for the community’s sports dinner on Saturday night.
Montgomery also revealed Monday that he’ll be involved with Amazing Race Canada for it’s second season, with filming to take place in late April and May for the show that will air this summer.
"Hopefully, Canadians are as eager to watch season two of Amazing Race Canada as they were season one," said Montgomery, "It was very well received by the Canadian public and I was just thrilled to be riding the coattails of a program like that and being a part of it."
His full conversation with co-hosts Tyler Crayston and Lanny Stewart is below…
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