Driving for gold

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Driving for gold

Date2/16/1984

Names

Boucher, Gaetan (subject)

Spremo, Boris (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Driving for gold: Gaetan Boucher strides toward a gold medal finish in 1,500-metre speedskating event at Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. The win gave him three medals at the '84 Games, two golds and a bronze. Overall, he now has four Olympic medals, including silver he won in 1980, to become Canada's most successful Olympian ever.

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Olympic athletes

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Photographs

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0033701F

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Gaetan Boucher son Jean - Francois

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At work and play: Boucher has an elaborate private gym set up in the basement of his home at Lorraine, just north of Montreal

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2/7/1998

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