From summer camp to the Olympics

In 1998, Greg Douglas spent a month at Camp Tawingo on the shores of Lake Vernon, just west of Huntsville, Ont. He was eight years old and had flown to another country — the family lived in Barbados at the time — to go to summer camp.

The kids were told to write home and, dutifully, he did. “‘Mom and dad, I’m fine.’ That’s it. That’s all we got,” his sister Sarah Douglas said, retelling family lore.

Turns out her brother was a lot more than fine. He not only loved camp, he had developed a passion for sailing — a passion that would transform the entire Douglas family and lead to both Greg and Sarah becoming elite sailors and competing in multiple Olympics.

“It just shows that you never know what it is that you’re going to fall in love with or what’s going to be your passion,” said Greg Douglas, a sport business consultant for Deloitte. – Full report