GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Brad Gushue returned as a sports god to Newfoundland and Labrador after lifting Canada to the gold medal in men’s curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The Team Gushue Highway was named in his honor.
Now, instead of curling in the final rounds at the Pyeongchang Games, he can drive on it. Or hang out at Team Gushue Sports Complex.
Team Canada is here, but Gushue, inexplicably to the world of curling, is not. He has been watching the Games on television, yet again, from his home in St. John’s.
“Painfully,” he said.