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OlympicTalk · Jan 5, 2018

Chris Bourque goes from rooting for Canada to playing for U.S. at Olympics

Teen goalie in contention for U.S. Olympic men’s hockey teamU.S. hockey player Chris Bourque‘s second Olympic experience will be vastly different than his first, 20 years ago at the Nagano Winter Games.

“I was actually there rooting for Canada,” he said Friday.

Bourque, then 12 years old, accompanied his dad, Hockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque, who was part of the first Canadian Olympic hockey team with NHL players in 1998.

Bourque remembers the bobsled here. The figure skating there. The curling over there.

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