There’s one more thing the Canadian women’s speed skating team wants after winning Olympic gold: to meet Shania Twain
Let’s go girls!
Canadian speed skaters Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann won gold at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games, and they celebrated the same way all Canadians honour the big victories in our lives: by saying “let’s go girls” and cranking Shania Twain.
“Man I Feel Like A Woman” played through the arena as the reigning champions basked in the glory of being the world’s best. (They won the gold in Beijing four years ago, too.) It turns out the soundtrack was part of Blondin’s manifestation plan.
As spotted by sports journalist Rob Williams, Blondin shared the text she sent to her manager before the trio competed. “There better be some fucking Shania Twain playing for the victory lap,” she said.
The team’s manager, Tyler Mulcock, made it happen, and the rest is a Canadian Heritage Moment.
What else might they manifest while the iron is hot? “Would love to meet her one day,” Blondin told Daily Hive. “I’ve never met her. Just putting that out there.”
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
