The 2022 Beijing Olympic Games are on now! The Olympics are happening Feb. 4-20, 2022.
Team Canada is fielding 215 athletes — third-most for a Winter Olympics and the most athletes who identify as female, with 106.
You can see a complete schedule of events here.
CBC is bringing you all the action. Andi Petrillo is hosting Winter Olympic Games Morning, Scott Russell is hosting Winter Olympic Games Primetime and Perdita Felicien and Andrew Chang are hosting Beijing Today.
CBC Books asked each of the hosts to recommend an inspiring read. See what they picked below!
Andi Petrillo recommends My Mother’s Daughter by Perdita Felicien
“I can’t get enough of Perdita Felicien’s memoir My Mother’s Daughter. Perdita is someone who came into my life as an athlete — someone I came to know through my television set. She then came into my life proper as a co-worker at CBC Sports and she became a friend. Perdita is resilient and does everything to perfection.
What a beautiful and inspiring tale of a mother and her daughter, of knowing one’s history, and an athlete’s biggest fan.
“An athlete’s triumphs and tribulations are on display for all to see and in her book she takes us even deeper into her life; how the struggles of her mother planted the seeds of strength inside Perdita. What a beautiful and inspiring tale of a mother and her daughter, of knowing one’s history, and an athlete’s biggest fan.”
Perdita Felicien recommends A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
“This true story took me to a place and through horrors I didn’t know existed. It is about the author being a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. I could not put this book down despite it being raw at times.
The beauty within these pages is that we see the author turn tragedy into triumph.
“The beauty within these pages is that we see the author turn tragedy into triumph and that is a lesson we all need right now.”