Bedard, Bailey, Gagnon enter Canadian Olympic Hall
Come April 16, biathlete Myriam Bedard will share something in common with fellow Olympic gold medallists Donovan Bailey and Marc Gagnon.
Bedard will join Bailey's 1996 men's 4x100-metre relay team and Gagnon's 1998 men's short-track speed skating relay team as this year's inductees into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.
The ceremony will be held in Montreal.
National and Olympic swim coach Jeno Tihanyi and Bert Oldershaw, who has been involved with canoe-kayak as an athlete, administrator and builder, will also be inducted.
The Canadian Olympic Order will be awarded posthumously to the late Sidney Dawes, the first Canadian Olympic Committee president and a former member of the IOC.
Bedard became the first Canadian woman to capture two gold medals at a single Olympic Games, winning the 7.5- and 15-kilometre events at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. At the 1992 Albertville Winter Games, she became the first North American ever to win an Olympic medal in the biathlon when she captured bronze in the 15km.
Bailey anchored Canada's victory in the men's 4x100 relay final at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert and Bruny Surin joined the 100-metre champion on the medal podium, while Carlton Chambers was the team's alternate.
Eric Bedard, Derrick Campbell, Francois Drolet and Gagnon led their team to gold in the 5,000 short-track relay at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Later that year, the team added two world championship victories to its Olympic gold.
with files from Canadian Press