The Journey of an Olympian Madeleine Kelly represented Canada in the 800m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. How she got there and the role of her dad, her coach, and Olympia Sports Camp makes her journey an example of a level of tenacity and commitment that makes the return all the more rewarding. Maddy first attended Olympia as a camper when she was 12. She loved everything about the place and felt she came into her own, surrounded by like-minded people and positivity that allowed her confidence to flourish. The counsellors motivated her, to the point that she too wanted to be a counsellor some day. She was a camper for two more years and decided that "the best thing ever"would be to try to get hired at camp. But there was a problem. After her group interview in Etobicoke she was asked if she would come to camp as a sailing instructor. She loved the idea but the problem was that she didn't have any of her lifeguard qualifications in order to do the job. After that inter...