The most interesting Olympian is close to her third Olympics in a third sport

Wow, this girl moves quick.

When I wrote about Georgia Simmerling in January for CBC Sports her Twitter bio said “2 Olympics | 2 Sports”.

It doesn’t anymore.

Now it says “getting some stuff done with a big smile on my face”. (Which is true, Georgia has this giant grin that envelops her face and says “I am SO happy to be here.”)

She also gets s — t done. Like a boss. I mean really, Georgia gets what she wants. Which I guess is a necessary trait for an athlete, it’s just with Georgia, she’s bold and unapologetic.

And this time, she’s really done something huge. But I’ll get to that in a bit.

I first heard of Georgia when I lived in Vancouver, shortly before the 2010 Games. She was an alpine skier then, trying to make the Olympic team. Of course, she did.

By the way: You basically have to be insane to be a ski racer.

Over the years I’ve covered her as an athlete, Georgia is either winning something or in the hospital. There is no middle ground.

Even after she switched to ski cross in 2011 it seemed to get worse. Broken neck. Shattered wrists.

Anyway, Georgia is good at ski cross too. She has World Cup medals. She went to Sochi. I was there covering for @TeamCanada and though I wasn’t stationed in the mountains we saw each other briefly at the ski cross team presser.

She was the embodiment of the word stoked. It was the Olympics, and there she was toque’d out and pumped up.

But now she’s gone next level. Right now Georgia is in London, England for World Championships in TRACK CYCLING.

Cycling.

On a track.

Unreal.

In just over a year Georgia has gone from hanging around a run-down BC track to a World Cup champion. All for the Canadian women’s team pursuit which is a legit squad.

And she wants to make the Olympics. Which is entirely possible.

Here’s how it lays out in chronological order:

Jan 2015: Cycling alone on a Burnaby track after a ski x crash
April 2015: Calls national endurance team head coach Craig Griffin
May 2015: Rides a national-level individual pursuit
Oct 2015: First Canadian nationals
Dec 2015: First development team camp
Dec 2015: Rides with the elite team for first time
Jan 2016: First World Cup, first World Cup medal (gold)
Mar 2016: First World Championships
April 2016: Olympic team pursuit is named
August 2016: Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro

If Georgia is one of the five women named to the Olympic team pursuit she’ll become the first-ever Canadian to make three successive Olympics in three different sports.

It’s damn impressive.

This qualifies as ‘getting some stuff done…’, for real.