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Dec 17, 2013 · John Fennell is part of the next generation of Canadian luge. He was just a 14-year-old spectator at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, but that solidified his Olympic dream. He got the chance to make his Olympic debut at Sochi 2014 where he finished 27 th in the men’s singles event.
Feb 5, 2019 · John Fennell is your thinker's athlete. The luger has made some hard choices in his career. And then he's had to live with the consequences. He was a young man when he came out of the closet.
John Fennell (born May 28, 1995) is an American-Canadian luger who has competed since 2011. [1] He competed for Canada in the first-ever Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, where he finished 7th, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, [2] finishing 27th.
Feb 13, 2014 · The Fennell brothers tried almost every sport in the book growing up. “They played everything that you could kick or throw or jump over,” reports mom Lynne Fennell. “David is a snowboarder and he was a basketball player at school. And John tried absolutely everything.
Jul 24, 2024 · After competing in the men’s singles competition, at age 19, John came out to the media, even before his family and friends. “It was an interesting point in time in sports culture where this topic wasn’t being discussed very much. It was a much bigger deal for athletes to come out,” he recalled, now a decade later, expressing how proud ...
Jun 16, 2017 · Fennell is a proud #OneTeam ambassador and continues to spark the conversation about LGBTQ athletes. “I remember the Olympics as a confusing time. As a young closeted athlete, I felt like I was out of place.” Fennell says of his time at the 2014 Olympics, at the time a 19-year-old Canadian luger.
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Dec 8, 2017 · Cut by the Canadian national team twice, John Fennell was promised nothing by the American luge team. But his 2018 goal is simple: to secure one of three men's singles spots on the U.S. Olympic...
