The man on the Zoom screen sits inside an office at his home in Calgary. He is, briefly and also rarely, not in motion. The walls behind him are covered with memorabilia, all from his past lives, as a college decathlete and then an Olympic bobsled champion. There’s a picture from an F16 ride he took once, a flag a veteran flew for him in Iraq, and Olympic credentials and opening ceremony tickets from the three Games he participated in.
“There’s you guys,” Steve Mesler says, pointing to one of two framed Sports Illustrated covers in the background. Someone sent him one, from 1961, with bobsledders on the front. He earned the other, by winning gold, becoming part of the first bobsled-focused SI cover in almost 50 years.
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