Greg Westlake

Hollywood (gracebrulotte.blogspot.com, 07 Mar 2010)

Winning gold at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Turin, and playing in front of a home crowd at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. (Athlete, 06 Mar 2014)

His family, and Canadian Para ice hockey player Paul Rosen. (Athlete, 06 Mar 2014)

Canadian ice hockey player Mike Richards. (paralympic.org, 17 Jan 2013)

"Don't worry about things you can't control." (rbc.ca, 2011)

He was named Best Forward at the 2013 World Championships A-Pool in Goyang, Republic of Korea. (paralympic.org, 02 May 2013)

In 2011 he set an arm-powered world speed record in handcycling. (paralympic.ca, 01 Mar 2014)

Both of his legs were amputated below the knee at age 18 months. "When I was born my feet were malformed and were never going to be fully functional." (discoverhumboldt.com, 14 May 2012; claytontheriault.blogspot.co.uk, 18 Apr 2012)

LIFE AFTER HOCKEY
Speaking in mid-2018 he said the thought of retirement had crossed his mind, but that he wanted to continue playing at future Paralympic Games. "There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about whether I'll be back with Team Canada. I would like to play at two more Games [in 2022 and 2026] but I'm also in my early thirties, I'm thinking about life, I'm thinking about a house, a professional career." He also said he was still reflecting on Canada's defeat to the United States of America in the gold medal game of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. "I'm very much an athlete. I'm still not over that last loss." (games.paralympic.ca, 26 Jun 2018)

LONGTIME LEADER
He was first named captain of Canada's national Para ice hockey team in October 2010. (games.paralympic.ca, 2018; globalnews.ca, 13 Nov 2017; cbc.ca, 01 Oct 2016)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
He is the owner of Taylor and Colt, a chain of barber shops in Toronto, ON, Canada. He is a spokesperson for Jumpstart's Play Finds A Way Project, a programme to make sport and play accessible to all Canadian children. "It's kids with disabilities playing with able-bodied kids. It's everyone together, which is the way it should be and I just think it's an incredible programme." (globalnews.ca, 13 Nov 2017; LinkedIn profile, 2018)

EARLY DAYS
In 2005 he changed his position on the ice from goaltender to forward, which he admits led to some opposition and resentment from other members of the national team. "I think when I made the transition to go from being a goalie to a forward there was definitely some guys who could see themselves losing their job. I got a few phone calls from a few of the older guys on the team basically saying, 'This is a bad decision for you, don't do it'. But it was always in the pipeline for me, I always wanted to hit people, I wanted to score goals, I wanted to be more active." (The National Benefit Authority, 22 Feb 2017)