Heather’s bobbing in for new shot at gold

FORMER Canada rugby star Heather Moyse has a fighting chance of making it three Olympic gold medals on the bounce in Pyeongchang next month after a welcome upturn in form for her and her bobsleigh partner Alysia Rissling.

Moyse the rugby player, below, starred in two Women’s World Cups for Canada and also won a silver medal at the 2013 World Sevens but she doesn’t confine herself to Rugby.

In 2010 and again in 2014 she won Olympic gold in the two-man bob with Kallie Humphries but that sporting partnership was dissolved when Moyse ‘retired’ after the Games in Sochi. Last year, however, she got the itch again and is looking to make it a hattrick with Rissling as her driver.

The pair had been struggling by their standards but a fourth place finish recently at St Moritiz would seem to tee them up for a serious podium attempt in South Korea.

Meanwhile there is more rugby interest in the Men’s Downhill and Sup G where Donegal man Patrick McMillan, a former member of the Leinster Academy with Tadhg Furlong and Jack Conan, competes for Ireland.

And in the Men’s Luge, Fuahea Semi, once a promising young player in Tonga, will be at the start gate although you need to look out for the name Bruno Banani, the German fashion group, for whom he modelled ‘Coconut powered’ men’s underpants. Semi changed his name to Bruno Banani by deed poll.

The Tongan Luge Association was formed specially to support his efforts and although he failed to qualify for the 2014 Olympics a 28th position in the final World Cup race of the season in Park City USA earlier this month secured his Olympic berth.