Joannie Rochette
by Rowan from Calgary
Crayon
- Springbank Middle School -
My heroine is the Canadian Olympic figure skater Joannie Rochette. I chose her because she really inspired me to try figure skating, which I have wanted to do for over two years. I used to think that I could not do anything on ice; I would watch the older kids doing their waltz jump with an extra spin on the end, and every year my parents took me to Disney on ice and I felt like it was all beyond me . However, when I heard about Joannie and how her mom died before she went on the ice to compete, it touched me. I thought about my few troubles compared with her sorrow, and yet she still went on. I knew after hearing that, that I could at least try.
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