With a slide and a swig, Jon Montgomery became an instant Canadian icon.
We were aware of him because he was a bit of a character, right? Jon Montgomery took up skeleton relatively late in his life when he first saw the Canada Olympic Park [COP]. He was an auctioneer that worked pretty close to the COP.We'd be in these little hotels [on the World Cup tour]. And you'd hear, like, almost singing or talking or something. You're like, ‘What is that down the hall?’ It was Jon practising his auctioneering in the shower, which he did every morning.
Minor adjustments are made to the track following the death of Kumaritashvili, but training and competition continue as planned.We're having to maybe overcome a bit of a mental hurdle, seeing the kinds of times that the Germans, the Russians, the Latvians, the Americans were doing.Montgomery looks to see his time as he crosses the finish line during men's skeleton training at the Whistler with Sliding Centre on Feb. 17, 2010.
In Olympic skeleton competition, athletes are ranked by the combined time of their four runs down the track.Jon's first run, he had a really good start. I think it was in the top four in terms of start time, which is really good for him. So we are quite happy with that. … We thought, ‘OK, if you can do four of those, you're going to be in a really good position.’Day 1 was almost... I'm not going to call it autopilot, but we have trained for that moment for so long.
So I came down and I did. I set the track record by eight-hundredths of a second, and that, I know for a fact, is by that change of entrance into corner four. Montgomery, shown celebrating after winning gold, says 'it was like I’d stuck my big toe in a light socket and the energy was now pumping, coursing through my body and radiating out my pumping fist.' He did it his way, that's for sure. He should play Frank Sinatra because he kept his cool and was Jon Montgomery the whole time.We were indoors and we heard this roar.
I don't know if I even said, ‘I gave you that beer, by the way.’ I don't remember saying you owe me a pint, but I probably should have, [but] he signed the flag.We're supposed to remain neutral as broadcasters and storytellers. But I went to the medal [plaza] that night and I was just another person in the crowd and I was singing 'O Canada,' too.He did that characteristic jump onto the stage.
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