User:Goricky

Olympic career

Making Canada's Olympic team was the biggest highlight of the young light-welterweights' career up to that point (see fight at http://www.goricky.ca/gpage1.html). Later that year, Anderson won a gold medal in the light-welterweight division at the Acropolis Cup tournament in Athens, Greece before the Moscow Olympic boycott was announced. Ricky was unaware that politics ran so deeply in sports and he felt in his heart he would be going to Moscow. It never happened. Hear Ricky's personal comments on the boycott in a 2012 Chronicle Herald article. http://thechronicleherald.ca/sports/96315-an-olympic-dream-ko-d-by-politics