Winter Games could be a family get-together

By Terry Bell, The ProvinceJuly 7, 2009
Edmonton short track speed skater Jessica Gregg may have a little extra incentive at Olympic team trials next month.
If Gregg makes the team she'll be following in the steps of her father Randy Gregg and mother Kathy (nee Vogt).

Her dad, who won five Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers, played hockey for Canada at the 1980 and 1988 Olympics, while mom was a speed skater in the 1976 and 1980 Games.
And to further complete the family portrait, her brother Jamie has a chance to make the 2010 Olympic long track team.

"If my brother and I went to the same Olympics it would be really cool," said Jessica, just off a two-week national team training camp at the Pacific Coliseum.
"It would be really exciting. I know our parents would probably be in the stands, too, so it would be a family event.

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