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Canadian men’s field hockey team puts jobs aside in bid to make Olympics

Players sacrificing full-time jobs for shot at Paris games
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The Canadian men’s field hockey team is shown posing with the bronze medal Nov. 3, 2023, at the Pan American Games. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Field Hockey Canada-Yan Huckendubler

Once again, Gordon Johnston has put his career as a civil engineer on hold to wear Canadian colours.

So have many others on the Canadian men’s field hockey team, with occupations ranging from student to software developer.

“It’s cool to see and to have that diversity amongst the team of people working in different places and everyone building themselves and creating a life after hockey,” said the 30-year-old Johnston, a two-time Olympian who works for SRK Consulting as a water resources engineer.

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