Team Gushue at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games


Each member of the team has a St. John's subdivision street named after him.

Golden Gushue
ISBN: 1551095858

Author: Brad Gushue and Alex J. Walling

Brad Gushue, the young skip from Newfoundland and Labrador, was doubled over on the ice long after his last shot had inexplicably missed and his team had lost the final of the 2000 Canadian men’s junior curling championship in Moncton. He was doubled over not from any physical pain, but from the anguish of knowing he had blown an extraordinary opportunity to put his name on the Canadian curling map.

Long after most of the fans had departed the arena, a lone figure approached the young Gushue on the ice surface. “You are too good a curler and your team is too good,” Russ Howard told the young skip. “Maybe this isn’t what the curling gods had in store, maybe there’s something bigger out there for you.” At the time, the words were little consolation for the nineteen-year-old skip who had just lost the biggest game of his life. But with Howard’s help, the words would prove to be prophetic.

This is the story of a dream, the dream of four young men—Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab, and Mike Adam. The dream was formed following that crushing loss in Moncton, when the team came one rock short of winning their first national title.

This is the story of how a team that seemed to come from nowhere in late 2005 had actually begun building for the ultimate goal—Olympic gold—long before. It’s the story of how a group of four young men (and a fifth somewhat older) brought Olympic glory to a province that was ready for new heroes.

It’s the story of a man whose moment of ultimate triumph was tempered by the emotional pain of not having a loved one close by to witness it, pain that was captured on television for the entire nation to see.

It’s the story of how a curling foursome from Newfoundland and Labrador broke the mould for achieving curling success by inviting a legend nearly twice their age to the team just before the biggest tournament of their lives, and made it work.

Most importantly, it’s the story of how a team overcame the doubts of just about everyone else in the Canadian curling world to do what no other Canadian men’s curling team had been able to do—win Olympic gold.

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