No column for medals won? Or is this like elementary school sports day where every one gets a ribbon for just showing up?

I remember when my kids were in Elementary school and they decided that competition was unfair to some kids and sports day was made into a big feel good, group huddle. It pissed me off. Some kids don't stand out scholastically, but could run or jump like the wind and sports day was the only chance they had to shine. Bleeding hearts ruined the only day they had to feel good about something. What is wrong with the sack race, the three legged race etc? The 100 yard dash, the high jump etc. Good clean fun where there were winners and losers, and just like in life, some can run and some can divide better than you, and everyone should be ok way it. But no, the kids all had to walk around the field holding on to each other in the shape of a giant caterpillar because some arch moron deemed that competition is unfair.
It still pisses me off.

Agreed. Unfortunately, those kids will face the harsh realities when they show up for a job interview and wonder why they weren't automatically given the job.

"No column for medals won? Or is this like elementary school sports day where every one gets a ribbon for just showing up?"

You're over-interpreting this. It's just listing people in PG who have participated in the Olympics, itself a significant achievement. How well each of them did isn't really important for the purposes of the article.

Being able to participate in the olympics is quite a feet in itself. It means you have been competing and are in the top few in the world.

Congratulations to all those who have become some of the best in the world at their event.

How is it determined that they are PG Olympians?

1. born here and spent their athletic formative years here?

2. moved here and spent their athletic formative years here?

3. other?

Also, how many of these individuals can also be claimed by other communities as their olympians? If any, which one has the greater claim and why?

I always thought that the Rossland-Trail communities were the top in producing olympians and other athletes.

If you log on to the library with your new PG library card, or visit the static URL www.lib.pg.bc.ca/talkingproudpg you can see the list as it gets updated.

The intention of this list is simply to answer a general reference question: how many Olympians from Prince George and in what Olympics did they participate, and is based upon feedback from those individuals. It is part of a greater initiative that collects facts and stories that would make you "talk proud" about Prince George in terms of unusual or unrelated information(eg. PG was once the second largest city in BC circa 1981). At the library, we often find odd reference facts, and we are gathering/verifying for a future rebuilding of our website as a proper feature.

Since the Olympics are here already, and this happens to be the common question on the public mind, we simply mounted this as a quick page for all to see, and use. As I work as a volunteer on the city's Spirit of BC committee along with other representatives like PacificSport and other volunteers, they supplied names, and we supplied others by soliciting the public. We actually have more than on this list, and we are contacting them to see their "connection to PG", so this is our criteria, such as it is... in particular, it has been difficult to find information on para-Olympians.

We hope that the media such as the PG Citizen, Opinion 250, CBC, the Free Press and other interested members of the public can use this as a starting point for creating their own stories, or encouraging our fellow citizens and children to follow their dreams.

As one of your commenters said, it is a "significant achievement" to even get to the Olympics, and as such is a reason to "talk proud", and that is the spirit of our list.

Thank you to Opinion 250 and its readers for this story, email TalkingProudPG@lib.pg.bc.ca with any suggestions, we like to support readers of all ages and in all forms, so come to the library, and check us out.

Thanks to the Library for bringing us this information. Congrats to all those that participate in active living, daily sports and high performance sports.
Cudos to those that have acheived some of the highest level of athletic acheivement that have taken years of hard work and dedication.
Hats off to all the volunteers, coaches and family that have helped support all those that participate in sport to fullfill dreams of what ever level they choose to follow.