tribute to gymnast Kyle Shewfelt

The best I’ve read so far is by George Johnson in our local paper, the Calgary Herald:


Recently, writing on his madly entertaining, highly personal blog, Shewfelt featured an anonymous, very Shewfelt-ian quote that could easily pass not only for a personal philosophy but a career legacy:

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” He’s done that, for himself, and from us. …

read the rest – Golden gymnast calls it a career. No regrets for Kyle Shewfelt.

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#1 Jim from Seattle on 05.21.09 at 8:32 pm

that quote sums the man up perfectly.

Kyle is surely one of the great ambassadors of what’s best about gymnastics in the long history of the sport.

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